Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead

[fatbegone]

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."

We're gonna have to start sending our protein powder to Jano 🤣

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

 

[BooneDonk]

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."

We're gonna have to start sending our protein powder to Jano 🤣

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Maybe it’s lead and not gout in my foot!

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Does lead include the added benefits of bigger and harder muscles? If so, I'm stocking up on protein powder.

 

[fetefille]

That was a crazy read. I especially loved Quest's answer, "A spokesperson for Quest says that the levels of lead CR detected in its products are “evidence that our robust food safety programs are working effectively.'"

 

[HappyQuokka]

Lead was even found in some bubble tea samples. Makes me wonder what other products might have it too.

 

[rsmith]

Does lead include the added benefits of bigger and harder muscles? If so, I'm stocking up on protein powder.

Not if those muscles are in your a$$ in which case you need to get the lead out, not in.

 

[skeptick]

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."

We're gonna have to start sending our protein powder to Jano 🤣

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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[Rim Job Randy]

so basically don't buy plant based protein powders and vanilla flavors are always cleaner than chocolate flavors.

Looked into other tests and glad to see my go to, Dymatize ISO test pretty clean across the board.

thanks for the heads up

 

[hexagonal]

Glad CR is doing the testing. They're not the first to call out plant protein as being particularly bad here - clean labels found a nearly 3x increase in being over the lead limit in plant based products https://cleanlabelproject.org/protein-study-2-0/ - and stuff labeled as "organic" was particularly bad. Also matched chocolate being particularly bad.

Rest of the article is weird and kind of anti-protein. Mentions one meta-analysis but not all of the other meta-analysis with larger data sets, longer average study times, etc. that show basically the opposite. Pulls out the 25-30g per meal number that is explicit to being able to utilize protein for anabolic purposes, but it's not like your body stops being able to use protein after that for energy purposes, and research has shown that the amount you can use per meal is dependent on a variety of factors and is more like .4g to .6g per kg per meal. Also weird that it's like "health guidelines really only recommend more protein if you're doing resistance training" while not also mentioning that health guidelines also say that literally everyone should be doing resistance training. It's the highest satiety macronutrient and it has to go through two conversion processes that require energy to do before it can be stored as fat.

Also weird that it doesn't mention fiber as being something that Americans need a fuckton more of, either. If I was them my takeaway message would be "Be careful about protein supplements, try to get as much as you can from whole foods, eat more if you lift weights (and you should lift weights), also eat more fiber. A lot more fiber."

 

[Mr. Blonde]

How many protein shakes til I look like this?

 

[LeadFitz]

Concerning. But what's more concerning is how these companies bypass health specific recommendations. They should be held accountable, products removed until they can address their issues. To me the company is basically saying "buy my stuff, don't care what's in it".

 

[conzopiriani]

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I hear Portland is loaning out inflatables.

 

[brownb56]

Lead was even found in some bubble tea samples. Makes me wonder what other products might have it too.

Everything that comes out of the ground. The lead is from the plants pulling nutrients from the soil.

 

[brownb56]

Glad CR is doing the testing. They're not the first to call out plant protein as being particularly bad here - clean labels found a nearly 3x increase in being over the lead limit in plant based products https://cleanlabelproject.org/protein-study-2-0/ - and stuff labeled as "organic" was particularly bad. Also matched chocolate being particularly bad.

Rest of the article is weird and kind of anti-protein. Mentions one meta-analysis but not all of the other meta-analysis with larger data sets, longer average study times, etc. that show basically the opposite. Pulls out the 25-30g per meal number that is explicit to being able to utilize protein for anabolic purposes, but it's not like your body stops being able to use protein after that for energy purposes, and research has shown that the amount you can use per meal is dependent on a variety of factors and is more like .4g to .6g per kg per meal. Also weird that it's like "health guidelines really only recommend more protein if you're doing resistance training" while not also mentioning that health guidelines also say that literally everyone should be doing resistance training. It's the highest satiety macronutrient and it has to go through two conversion processes that require energy to do before it can be stored as fat.

Also weird that it doesn't mention fiber as being something that Americans need a fuckton more of, either. If I was them my takeaway message would be "Be careful about protein supplements, try to get as much as you can from whole foods, eat more if you lift weights (and you should lift weights), also eat more fiber. A lot more fiber."

If you go by recommended levels, whole foods would have a concerning amount of lead in them too.