I’ve been tempted to try some PhD Nutrition Pharma Whey since I tried their Diet Whey product a few months back, the reason being - it tasted really good!
Before I do buy this product, I wanted to see whether it had any micellar casein in it, as I’ve been using Boditronics Express Whey this month, and while it is a great tasting and mixing shake, it does seem to give me phlegm, which I assume is the casein as it never happened when I used just whey protein concentrate.
Looking at the PhD Nutrition website, according to the nutritional information about Pharm Whey there is only whey protein concentrate and whey protein isolate, so no casein - good start!
In addition to the great whey protein that it contains, it also has added Branch Chain Amino Acids and L-Glutamine which will help with anti-catabolism and general muscle building.
The other benefit that it has over other whey protein powders is the addition of pre-biotics, which help with digestion and maintaining healthy levels of bacteria in the digestive system.
The powder is 80% protein, 6.58% sugars, 6.4% fat, with the rest being made up of non-sugar carbs, fibre and amino acids.
So a 50gram portion will provide:
- 160 calories from protein
- 13 calories from sugars
- 29 calories from fats
- total calories 202
- impact calories 13
The fact that there is fat in the shake rather than lots of simple carbs is a good thing as far as I’m concerned - I’d much prefer to have low-GI fat energy than high-GI sugar energy in my food.
The glycemic load of this serving would be a measly 3.29.