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I'm more than a little curious what buns you are eating. :D That or what cake? It has surprised me how hard it has been to find a protein powder that isn't sw

by taeric 2y ago

I'm more than a little curious what buns you are eating. :D That or what cake? It has surprised me how hard it has been to find a protein powder that isn't sweetened. Usually by stevia, nowadays. By far the thing with the most sugar added that I was late to give up, is a standard yogurt. Tried making our own vanilla yogurt, once. I don't think we succeeded at making it as sweet as what we went in expecting. Despite an absurd amount of sugar added in.

Ancalagon 2y ago
FYI you can buy raw organic pea protein powder at your local sprouts grocery market. I used to use it religiously because whey would give me stomach problems and all the other pea proteins had stevia in them
BeetleB 2y ago
> By far the thing with the most sugar added that I was late to give up, is a standard yogurt. The yogurt Nazi in me feels compelled to point out that standard yogurt has no added sugars, and is offended that someone conflates that with vanilla yogurt. :-) Reminds me of twenty years ago where stores routinely sold yogurt makers. Except they didn't make yogurt. They made frozen yogurt. You needed yogurt as an ingredient. Face palm. Plain yogurt - without gelarin, pectin and sugars - is really awesome food. People should try it! Really easy to make at home as well with an instant pot. And yes. Plain yogurt is sour. It hasn't gone bad.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  I’m currently visiting the Americas and it’s insane how hard it is to find yogurt without sugar. Just yesterday I bought some by mistake that looked like plain yogurt- upon closer inspection it turned out it had sugar added to it (masquerading as honey but we all know that that’s just sugar in almost all cases)
  - pton_xd 2y ago
    Plain greek yogurt usually has no added sugar -- Fage, Siggi's, Oikos, Chobani, etc. It's also significantly higher in protein than regular yogurt.
    - portaouflop 2y ago
      That’s what I thought too - but I’ll just read the labels extra carefully next time and don’t rely on the “natural Greek yogurt” title
    - BeetleB 2y ago
      Yeah, but some people don't like Greek yogurt. It is thicker, heavier, and has a stronger taste. If you've grown up with regular yogurt in other countries, something like Fage may be too strong.
  - maxerickson 2y ago
    The quart size plain will generally not have added sugar, and is widely available (national brands package it like that). The single serve packages are "ready to eat" for people that want a sweetened snack.
    - BeetleB 2y ago
      > The quart size plain will generally not have added sugar, and is widely available (national brands package it like that). May be the case right now, but when I lived in the Midwest 15+ years ago, the regular grocery stores (Meijer, etc) would carry only ones that had gelatin or pectin. I'd have to go to the fancier (e.g. organic/natural) stores to find brands like Nancy's or Mountain High - and they'd be very pricey. The West coast always had brands like Nancy's in regular stores (at normal prices). Perhaps now one can easily find regular plain yogurt without additives in those places.
      - maxerickson 2y ago
        Dannon Whole fat is just milk (they do add pectin or starch to the low/no fat). https://www.dannon.com/yogurt/whole-milk-yogurt/plain-32oz/ https://www.dannon.com/yogurt/whole-milk-yogurt/plain-32oz/ The various 'Greek' varieties are also widely available and tend not to use thickeners. Also, I'm not sure why we would discount "right now".
  - grogenaut 2y ago
    For no sugar added, You can find Fage all over the place at least on the west coast. Many greek yogurts also have no sugar added. I also personally really like redwood hill farms goatgurt. You are correct, other yogurts are all deserts in the us. I was sorely dissapointed in chobani. When I'm eating yogurt I'm usually doing fage or goatgurt and frozen berry mix.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
  Kefir is a lot easier to make than yoghurt as it's not very temperature sensitive - cold temps just make it slow down a bit and room temp is fine for it to ferment. It's also cheaper as once you have some Kefir grains you just keep feeding them with milk and they'll continue growing so you end up throwing away unwanted grains.
- taeric 2y ago
  Totally fair, on plain yogurt. I was not a regular eater, so didn't know that at the time.
nerdix 2y ago
I use protein from Naked Nutrition. Its fairly expensive but the version I buy is plain protein. No added favors or sweeteners. https://nakednutrition.com/products/grass-fed-whey-protein-powder https://nakednutrition.com/products/grass-fed-whey-protein-p...
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alihm 2y ago
I found this unflavored protein powder rated very highly on consumer labs. Haven't bought it yet since I'm still going through my current optimum nutrition whey, but it's next on my list https://nutricost.com/products/nutricost-grass-fed-whey-prot https://nutricost.com/products/nutricost-grass-fed-whey-prot...

by taeric 2y ago

Ancalagon 2y ago

FYI you can buy raw organic pea protein powder at your local sprouts grocery market. I used to use it religiously because whey would give me stomach problems and all the other pea proteins had stevia in them

BeetleB 2y ago

> By far the thing with the most sugar added that I was late to give up, is a standard yogurt. The yogurt Nazi in me feels compelled to point out that standard yogurt has no added sugars, and is offended that someone conflates that with vanilla yogurt. :-) Reminds me of twenty years ago where stores routinely sold yogurt makers. Except they didn't make yogurt. They made frozen yogurt. You needed yogurt as an ingredient. Face palm. Plain yogurt - without gelarin, pectin and sugars - is really awesome food. People should try it! Really easy to make at home as well with an instant pot. And yes. Plain yogurt is sour. It hasn't gone bad.

portaouflop 2y ago
I’m currently visiting the Americas and it’s insane how hard it is to find yogurt without sugar. Just yesterday I bought some by mistake that looked like plain yogurt- upon closer inspection it turned out it had sugar added to it (masquerading as honey but we all know that that’s just sugar in almost all cases)
- pton_xd 2y ago
  Plain greek yogurt usually has no added sugar -- Fage, Siggi's, Oikos, Chobani, etc. It's also significantly higher in protein than regular yogurt.
  - portaouflop 2y ago
    That’s what I thought too - but I’ll just read the labels extra carefully next time and don’t rely on the “natural Greek yogurt” title
  - BeetleB 2y ago
    Yeah, but some people don't like Greek yogurt. It is thicker, heavier, and has a stronger taste. If you've grown up with regular yogurt in other countries, something like Fage may be too strong.
- maxerickson 2y ago
  The quart size plain will generally not have added sugar, and is widely available (national brands package it like that). The single serve packages are "ready to eat" for people that want a sweetened snack.
  - BeetleB 2y ago
    > The quart size plain will generally not have added sugar, and is widely available (national brands package it like that). May be the case right now, but when I lived in the Midwest 15+ years ago, the regular grocery stores (Meijer, etc) would carry only ones that had gelatin or pectin. I'd have to go to the fancier (e.g. organic/natural) stores to find brands like Nancy's or Mountain High - and they'd be very pricey. The West coast always had brands like Nancy's in regular stores (at normal prices). Perhaps now one can easily find regular plain yogurt without additives in those places.
    - maxerickson 2y ago
      Dannon Whole fat is just milk (they do add pectin or starch to the low/no fat). https://www.dannon.com/yogurt/whole-milk-yogurt/plain-32oz/ https://www.dannon.com/yogurt/whole-milk-yogurt/plain-32oz/ The various 'Greek' varieties are also widely available and tend not to use thickeners. Also, I'm not sure why we would discount "right now".
- grogenaut 2y ago
  For no sugar added, You can find Fage all over the place at least on the west coast. Many greek yogurts also have no sugar added. I also personally really like redwood hill farms goatgurt. You are correct, other yogurts are all deserts in the us. I was sorely dissapointed in chobani. When I'm eating yogurt I'm usually doing fage or goatgurt and frozen berry mix.
ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
Kefir is a lot easier to make than yoghurt as it's not very temperature sensitive - cold temps just make it slow down a bit and room temp is fine for it to ferment. It's also cheaper as once you have some Kefir grains you just keep feeding them with milk and they'll continue growing so you end up throwing away unwanted grains.
taeric 2y ago
Totally fair, on plain yogurt. I was not a regular eater, so didn't know that at the time.

nerdix 2y ago

I use protein from Naked Nutrition. Its fairly expensive but the version I buy is plain protein. No added favors or sweeteners. https://nakednutrition.com/products/grass-fed-whey-protein-powder https://nakednutrition.com/products/grass-fed-whey-protein-p...

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alihm 2y ago

I found this unflavored protein powder rated very highly on consumer labs. Haven't bought it yet since I'm still going through my current optimum nutrition whey, but it's next on my list https://nutricost.com/products/nutricost-grass-fed-whey-prot https://nutricost.com/products/nutricost-grass-fed-whey-prot...