I am always on the hunt for great tasting vegan protein powder! Whenever there's a choice between chocolate and vanilla, I am a chocolate girl!! The vegan protein that I have used up until now is the chocolate flavor from the brand OWYN. You can find it at Whole Foods, Vitamin Shoppe, online, and probably other places too! While I do love that one, I'm always up for trying something new.
I had seen the brand Nuzest floating around the Instagram stories of some health & wellness pages that I follow so I thought I'd give it a try. The one thing I hate about buying protein powder is buying a huge container of it without being able to try it and then not liking it. Thankfully, Nuzest sells 'protein sachets' (single serving packets) of their protein powder so you can try the flavor before buying a big container!
They have 8 different flavors of their Clean Lean Protein. It is a pea protein and is super low in carbs (1g!!) which is really hard to find in vegan protein powders. There is also 0g of sugar and 19g-21g of protein in every serving! I like it because it is easy on the digestive system and has all nine essential amino acids and is a natural source of iron. The flavors are Wild Strawberry, Real Coffee, Rich Chocolate, Smooth Vanilla, Just Natural, Vanilla Matcha, Chai Turmeric Maca, and Coffee Coconut MCT. I got a sample packet of every flavor except the Just Natural. So far, I have tried the strawberry, coffee, chocolate and vanilla flavor. I can update this when I try the other 3 too!
Flavors in order from what I liked most to least:
Rich Chocolate. No surprise here, I liked the chocolate flavor the best! I actually saved this flavor to try last. When judging protein powders I think about whether or not it really tastes good. I hate the idea of choking down a shake every time I make one. This flavor tasted great and it wasn't overpowering at all.
Real Coffee. I was pleasantly surprised by this flavor! Although I felt myself kind of searching for that "coffee" flavor, I liked the taste of it. The coffee flavor was very mild but I liked it! If you are looking for a slight coffee taste I would recommend this!
Wild Strawberry. Honestly it was almost a tie between strawberry and vanilla for the last flavor. I chose to put this first because it had a strong strawberry flavor so if you're looking for that I would go with this flavor!
Smooth Vanilla. I had such high hopes for the vanilla flavor!!! I feel like every time I see someone post about this brand they're using the vanilla flavor so I thought it would be really good. It could just be me but I felt like it had a fake vanilla taste. I hate that fake flavor! If you like other vanilla protein powder then you might like this one because other people love this flavor. But I didn't like it!
I decided to buy a 20 serving container of the Rich Chocolate flavor. I originally (before I tasted them) thought I was going to get the vanilla so that I could use it more like base and also incorporate it into some baking but let's be real, I can easily do that with the chocolate!!
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Thanks for reading!
xo,
Jess
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