Muscle Feast Grass Fed Whey Protein Isolate, All Natural, Hormone Free, Fast Absorbing, 100% Pure Isolate, 20.5G Protein, 88 Calories (Strawberry Cheesecake, 5Lb)

Yes a bit of a dramatic headline, but I assure you, my position is far from dramatic. I have been an avid consumer of protein powers since the late 1990s. I have had more types, flavors, brands, etc than I care to try and list. With that being said, this is hands down the single worst tasing protein I have ever had. Yes, its wose than the vegan pea proteins ive had. YUP, worse than PEA protein. I love MuscleFeast products and find their protein to be very high quality and cause very little to no gastric distress. However, when im having to employ the same techniques I use to choke down a strong vodka tonic, or the medicine I took as a child (kids these days don't know the struggle of Robitussin), then I just have to warn people. This "strawberry cheesecake" can best be described like this.... Picture a fresh wad of nice sugary strawberry bubblegum. Now imagine the gum that they make that' sugar free but supposed to taste like that lovely artificial strawberry flavor. It misses the mark. This protein tastes like the worst imitation of imitation sugar free strawberry flavor ever created. It's rough folks. With that said, I can totally man up and pound it down. I put two scoops in water, breathe through my mouth a coulple times, and gittr' dun'. But for all the wonderous flavor options that exist, this is jsut not worth it. Their chocolate is FLAWLESS. Stay away from this one unless you like fake chemical tasting stuff.

I do not understand the complaints about the price. You can try this yourself, but take the time to look through the top protein brands ingredients. You'll eventually find out that most of them have soy or some other unnatural ingredients in it's ingredients list (optimum nutrition, impact whey, dymatize) All off these chemicals have a proven adverse effect to either your hormones (soy) or your overall gut health. They're "cheaper" for a reason. If you're following a normal lifting routine (5 days a week) you will invariably drink protein atleast 5 times a week as well. Do you really want soy lecithin or xanthan gum(used in pesticides and paint) in your gut and bloodstream everyday? For months? Ingredients quality is good, sunflower lecithin is the superior choice to soy protein due to the extraction method it undergoes. the sunflower is cold pressed (literally squeezed with a hydraulic press) rather than being extracted forcefully with acetone and hexane (soy lecithin). Tastes great with milk but with water it's sort of like a diluted strawberry ice cream smoothie. I have been purchasing since 2017 and although the price has gone up I will keep purchasing as long as the ingredients stay the same

Ordered the strawberry cheesecake flavor. Too sweet to drink. When I say too sweet, imagine 2x-3x as sweet as pure sugar. Made me fill ill, no way I could get through 5lbs, so I returned it. The protein otherwise seemed high quality, so upon advice I tried the chocolate. Still excessive artificial sweetener. It's drinkable, but sweet enough to leave a weird/bitter aftertaste for 20 minutes after drinking it. I tried this brand's micellar casein as well, which doesn't have this problem at all. Not sure what the deal is with this whey isolate.

I’ve been ordering the chocolate and decided to try this flavor when it went on sale. I’m totally hooked. It’s amazing!!! And free of hormones and from grass fed cows. Clean ingredients. No dangerous Sucralose! They found a loyal customer for life. As soon as you open it, you get a whiff of deliciousness. Smells and tastes like a treat. I can’t say enough about this protein!!

I had been taking Nitro Tech Ripped for a while and did well with it, but I was looking for something rated for being more 'clean'. This came up in some lists as being more pure, so I thought I'd try it out. I bought the strawberry cheesecake and it wasn't too bad...not the best flavor, but not the worst. The past few months I've been having a lot of bloating and gas that I didn't have before. I started suspecting this, but I had also begun taking L-Glutamine for some other digestive issues. After ruling out the L-glutamine, I swapped protein powders and the bloat went away. I have ulcerative colitis, so my stomach is sensitive to begin with, but the Nitro Tech did not bother me at all...I'm not sure why something that's supposed to be 'cleaner' gave me such bad bloat and cramps. I also have gained like 4 pounds for no reason since beginning to take this. I would not purchase this again.