MuscleTech Whey Protein Powder (Vanilla Cream, 5LB) - Nitro-Tech Whey Protein Isolate Smoothie Mix for Lean Muscle & Recovery - 24g of Whey Gold for Women & Men - Packaging May Vary

I love this protein. My favorite flavor is cookies and cream.

*Update* After finishing my first tub and immediately reordering I have to admit I am obsessed with the flavor, I guess its an acquired taste and I fell in love with it. I am changing my original 4-star review to 5-stars. My new normal is to add a heaping quarter teaspoon of decaf instant coffee to the milk I mix the powder in with, an absolutely decadent tasting drink. ________Original review below________ Its mixes pretty well, it doesn't get lumpy, maybe a bit frothy, but that can be resolved quite quickly. The vanilla taste is definitely weird at first. At first taste it bordered on sickeningly sweet and slightly burnt, like twice roasted and them caramelized vanilla. After a week it started tasting more normal and after a month I am totally fine with the taste now. My favorite is to make make it with milk and then add a splash of black coffee, it actually tastes really good with some coffee added to knock back the sweetness and give it a bit more depth.

Taste great & easy mixing!

This is my second protein product from MuscleTech. The last product I tried was MuscleTech Nitro-Tech in Milk Chocolate. Comparatively, this product contains less protein per serving (24 vs 30g) and does not contain any creatine. The absence of creatine is helpful, especially if you already taking creatine separately. It allows you to optimize the amount of creatine that you are consuming daily. In terms of taste, I find that it does a good job of imitating a cookies and crème flavour. It does have a similar taste to drinking an Oreo McFlurry that has melted. It does not have the strong whey taste that some protein powders usually carry. There are some artificial chemical aftertastes element as well. Of course, you wouldn’t expect it to taste exactly the same as a real ice-cream desert. I also find that the thickness when mixed with water is different than regular Nitrotech. If you want a watery protein drink, then this would be suitable for you. Strangely enough, despite this, I found the mixibility worse compared to the regular Nitro Tech. This drink provides the satiety after consumption, which is nice as a snack, or after a workout giving you a hunger-buffer before you can consume a meal with real food. It seems the volume per scoop is also consistently large with this brand. In this regard, it will a) fill up youf protein shaker easier (a good or bad thing), and b) contain less servings per x/lb of a tub. Take that into consideration when calculating what you need monthly. All in all, a solid tasting protein with a more flexible profile in terms of macros.

The flavor is amazing! It mixes really well and for the price it’s not bad at about $10/pound

Excelente

I have stopped using such products, hard on the liver

I will concede that it can be difficult to find a protein powder high in protein content that also tastes passable enough to ingest. Most protein powders in the 2010's and earlier had the flavor of horse hair mixed with dirty gym socks, with a bit of sugar added. So this gets at least 3 stars for being drinkable and mixing well with the three liquids I used (full-fat milk, almond milk, water). The lack of additional stars is due to its disappointing "double rich chocolate" flavor. If I had to liken this "richness" to anything, it'd be the people who posted "gettin paper" pictures on social media after cashing their $600 stimmy. I mean, MAYBE you could call it "rich" if you've never had chocolate before, but this has less chocolate flavor than Ovaltine. It's not "rich." It's not even middle class. It's a guy named Rick with dubious handwriting signing his autograph so you're not sure if he wrote "Rick" or "Rich" and you file it away and forget about it until you have to clean the attic. Chocolate is a very specific flavor. It's primarily bitter, but it's made smooth with that patented sweetness of added sugar. This is mostly sugary, slightly smoothed with a milky caseinate, with just a hint of milk chocolate flavor. Oh yeah, I guess I should also complain that they don't state the percentage of isolate to concentrate, something that other companies are doing more often. Point is that we live in the 2020's now and "gym bro" science is more common than ever. Older brands need to continue improving their flavors.