Whey powder (not protein powder)

Ran across this whey powder in a health food store for $2 a pound.

Not sure if it's sweet or sour powder yet, however in any case it is about 14% whey protein and 83% carbs (sugar) and the remainder fat. Assuming the sugar is predominantly lactose, it gets metabolized into glucose. Probably not as ideal as pure glucose but close, it seems. Usually has minerals like sodium, potassium and calcium.

Bottom line is for $2 a pound it's both cheaper than whey protein (about $10) and glucose ($3).

Could it make a viable recovery drink? Tasty? If you try it let me know

Any idea what was the brand?

Problem with that kind of product is that it is really low of protein. If you calculate how much are you paying per gram of protein the price won't be so amazing anymore. When using that product you should get protein from other sources for your shakes because supplying 30g of protein with this kind of product is crazy.

Maybe mixing one scoop of this with some 80%+ whey protein will make solid shake ...

EDIT:

Personally I prefer mixing quality tasty whey protein with fruits - it is more expensive, but I would say the nutritional value is (hopefully) lot better. I once got similar pretty cheap product in our local health store and I'm sure even chalk had better taste than that, so now I'm pretty scared to buy such products :roll: .

Ehh, NZ Whey Concentrate is like 5 or 7 bucks a pound at ProteinFactory.com

It's no-name, just store brand. They buy it in bulk and repackage it.

Trueprotein and proteinfactory price is before shipping though ... shipping to Canada doubles the cost too at least

I agree for protein it's not very good, although for a recovery drink to replace glycogen and rehydrate it looks

interesting. Protein is close to the 20% that is ideal. The cost of the lactose is less than glucose, so the protein

tags along essentially for free. Assuming the lactose will convert to glucose and replenish glycogen more or less in the same manner....

edit: lactose is half glucose and half galactose. The glucose goes to muscles first as always. However there is some debate

about galactose. The traditional view is that it preferentially refills liver glycogen. Of course, if the muscles do require it, it can the be broken down into glucose. That said, there is evidence that galactose is directly converted to glucose in the liver and released into systemic circulation. The bottom line is in either case, it is available to all parts of the body as glucose.

The thing in whey (non-protein) powders you need to watch out for is a variety called Permeate. It's essentially devoid of protein.

It's what's left AFTER they make the protein powder from it. Sweet/sour whey powder is made BEFORE that occurs.

Some related studies:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22525771

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407126

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... ool=pubmed