Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder Review
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With bodybuilders and fitness fanatics alike becoming more aware and focused on consuming healthier foods and supplements, vegan plant-based protein powders are rapidly gaining popularity. Previously, Whey protein powder was the goto protein powder, mainly because it has large amounts of amino acids, as well as such a high protein content per serving. However, more often than not, these protein powders contained very questionable, unhealthy ingredients, which ultimately paved the way for healthier, plant-based vegan protein powders. As well as this, many people are lactose intolerant or are vegan lifters. With the sheer volume of choices, we found one that we believe is one of the best available – Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder. This review aims to help you understand why this protein powder is one you should seriously consider adding to your regime. Let’s get into it!
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Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder Overview
Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder is a pea and organic brown rice-based protein powder that comes in four great flavors; Vanilla, Chocolate, Salted Caramel, and Matcha Latte. Each serving contains 20g of protein (using the 32g scoop included) and easily mixes with water or milk. You can even mix it with your favorite yogurt or fruit to easily boost your favorite desert’s protein content. To top this off, this vegan protein powder is gluten-free, soy-free, contains no animal-based ingredients or nuts and has no GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). One thing that many people have said about this protein powder is that it is very easy to digest, which is great since it is fairly accepted that most protein powders give you some kind of stomach upset.
How to classify a top Vegan Protein Powder
We brainstormed and developed important requirements that we feel all top vegan protein powders all meet in some shape or form. After careful consideration, we broke these down into a list of four crucial qualities, all of which the Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder passed with flying colors. These include the following:
- Protein Content
- Ingredients
- Mixability
- Taste
Protein Content
The protein content you get from one protein shake is an important factor because we are of course taking protein powder to get more of it into our diet. One thing to keep an eye out for is the size (in grams) of a serving. This will ultimately affect the protein per serving figure written on the packaging. For example, with the Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder, you get approximately 20g of protein per serving, using their scoop. Some may market “40g per serving” for example, but this might mean adding multiple scoops of protein powder. This in turn will dramatically affect the taste, mixability, and consistency, making your protein shake lumpy, thick, and incredibly difficult to gulp down. This also means that you’d get fewer servings per pack, so it wouldn’t last very long and therefore cost you more money. Fortunately, Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder has a relatively high protein content per scoop when compared to other brands available.
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Ingredients
While plant-based protein powder typically has less artificial sweeteners and emulsifiers than whey protein powder, because plant-based protein powders are often described as tasting “chalky”, many brands compensate for this by adding lots of other unnatural and non-nutritive ingredients for added flavor. These often consist of sweeteners like Sucralose, which as per several studies has been reported to raise blood sugar and insulin levels. Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder, on the other hand, is made from a blend of pea and rice proteins as well as Flax, Chia, and Organic Hemp Seeds as well as a whole host of fruit and vegetable extracts, providing you with a full EAA profile. This protein powder is sweetened using both stevia leaf and monk fruit extract, which are much more natural choices of sweetener than others are available and both do not raise your blood sugar levels as other sweeteners do.
Mixability
The mixability of a protein powder is definitely an important aspect to consider. If a protein powder does not mix very well, whether with water, milk or in a smoothie, it will be clumpy and you will taste and feel the thick lumps of protein powder when drinking it. This is the last thing you want from any protein powder as you will avoid drinking it and therefore it becomes a waste of money. Unfortunately, though, you may not always know how well a protein powder mixes until after you buy it. With that said, we can tell you that Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder mixes very well in fact, as per various reviews and video testimonials from other customers, so this is not something you should be concerned about.
Taste
And finally, we have taste. At the end of the day, while most protein shakes do not taste great, we want them to at least be moderately palpable as we will be drinking them fairly often. One thing to keep in mind is that the healthier a protein shake is, the less likely it is to taste good. I mean have you ever tried an unflavoured protein powder?! The great thing about the Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder is that it still tastes nice while also containing lots of healthy ingredients. As mentioned earlier this vegan protein powder comes in Vanilla, Chocolate, Salted Caramel, and Matcha Latte, so there’s a flavor for everyone. If you find that you want to spruce the taste up even further, there are many different things you can add to make this protein powder taste even better. Simply adding things like vanilla, almond, or lemon extracts, depending on which flavor you go for, can make all the difference.
Our Verdict
Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder goes above and beyond all the qualities we deem a great vegan protein powder to have. Whether you are looking to replace your usual protein powder for a healthier option or you are a Vegan lifter looking for a new protein powder to add to your supplement roster, you have to try this powder out. In addition, it is priced quite competitively too compared to other vegan protein powders in stores and online. So if you are looking for a low cost, healthy shake, that mixes well and tastes good – you need to get Sprouts Vegan Protein Powder.
