American Pure Whey Fake

[surfsatwerk]

I thought I would post this info about the product I stumbled on to.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3483823&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Seems to be 12% protein and 88% who the fuck knows.

 

[MustISO]

Damn, that's pretty crazy. I guess anything to make more money...

 

[Miramonti]

Someone on reddit has offered to test people's whey samples sent to him. I'm looking forward to where this topic goes. :thumbsup:

 

[surfsatwerk]

I did the microwave test on some old product I bought from them. It's kinda scary when you see real whey turn into a coagulated ball and what I thought was whey just turn into a frothy mess.

 

[crownjules]

Damn. Good thing I only bought one tub of APW. Guess it's time to buy up some protein off SlickDeals.

 

[timosyy]

This thread has all the relevant history/information about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/tcpmt/american_pure_whey_is_american_pure_shit/

 

[surfsatwerk]

For what it's worth Google Wallet refunded all my monies today. Apparently they no longer do business with this vendor. I wonder if you incur Google's wrath a bunch of driver-less cars show up at your doorstep, like in Maximum Overdrive?

 

[Miramonti]

Two dozen protein products (docs.google.com) to be tested for protein % by reddit member this weekend...stay tuned.

 

[EvilYoda]

I most recently bought 2x 2lb tubs of Optimum Nutrition's egg-based protein powder...the taste is pretty disappointing but it seems to be a great protein otherwise.

(I still have whey protein too...just wanted to try out the egg-based stuff)

 

[kinev]

Two dozen protein products (docs.google.com) to be tested for protein % by reddit member this weekend...stay tuned.

Marked for future info...

 

[Miramonti]

Results are in!

Reddit thread

My interpretation: I haven't measured any powder as 100% accurate. The reason probably is that none of it dissolved in water as good as my BSA standard. I gave a subjective solubility score to each. For example many chocolate flavored powders left a debris that looks like cacao, I gave them score of 4. Plant based powders didn't dissolve at all so got solubility score of 1 and obviously had low readings which doesn't mean anything. I guess they are just plant powders not isolated proteins.

Brandwise, Optimum Nutrition looks very reliable to me. Gaspari and Body Fortress are suspicious and deserves another independent measurement. The others are OK, remember that solubility is important and 75% reading might just be attributable to that. Finally, stay away from American Pure Whey.