Optimum nutrition 100 soy protein strawberry smoot

Customer Reviews

Due to all the negative reviews claiming that this product has milk and aspartame, here is what the label actually says (as of January 2013):

Soy Protein Isolate
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Lecithin
Beet Color
Citric Acid
Acesulfame Potassium
Salt
Sucralose

None of these ingredients suggest any milk-derived component. However, the next line says "ALLERGEN INFORMATION: CONTAINS SOY AND MILK INGREDIENTS."

So either there is a dairy product in the "natural and artificial flavors," or they are using dairy-derived lecithin. OR perhaps this is made in the same plant as all of their whey/cassien protein products and they fell obliged to keep this warning label to cover their butts in case of a small amount of contamination. Whatever the case, if you shop for other brands of soy protein, you are not going to find the ingredient list to be much different.

As far as the flavor goes, it is difficult to find soy that is in any other flavor than vanilla or chocolate. I used to buy GNC soy, but they (a) abandoned their large container size, so one is forced to buy many many small containers, which is wasteful and not cost effective and (b) there is no other flavor than vanilla or chocolate from GNC. Whether you like this flavor or not will obviously be subjective. Personally I add it this to some orange juice and some orange citracell fiber powder and I think it is quite good.

UPDATE: After a month of use I have to add the following: this soy product really foams up in a shaker bottle. It foams more than the GNC soy, and in fact this flavor foams more than the vanilla version of this product from the same company. Kind of annoying, actually.

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Not for me, thanks.

By Bri M. on November 30, 2013

Yuck.
I really don't like this at all.

To be perfectly fair, I have never been able to tolerate soy protein powders without adding peanut butter, additional flavorings, sweetener, or half & half.

Here's my breakdown on protein powders (This is obviously my personal OPINION. I am not a doctor. duh.)
Soy - Low price, low sugar/carb count. Tastes terrible. Cheap. Probably not good for guys.
Whey - Higher sugar/carb count. Tastes the best but if milk doesn't work for you, forget it.
Egg white - Low sugar/carb count. Tastes fair but smells like raw egg. Drink it fast and you won't notice.
Casein, Rice, etc. - Haven't tried.

I have been using the Optimum nutrition chocolate egg white protein powder which I do recommend.

If you like soy protein and you like mild "strawberry" flavor, by all means, buy it.

P.S. Everything on the technical side was fine- shipped on time, etc.