Flavoring your protein shakes with syrups

If you'd like variety in the flavors of your protein formulas, consider trying flavored syrups from companies such as Torani. For those watching their carbs, they have a large selection of sugar-free flavors using Splenda which have a very clean taste.

They're available from many on-line cooking supplies stores, and a large bottle costs around $5 or so. I've ordered from http://www.wesellcoffee.com/page31.html in the past because they're a local NJ store, so shipping isn't all that expensive (being that the bottles are glass).

Torani also makes a sugar-free chocolate syrup that tastes very close to the real thing.

- Dan

i recommend staying away from splenda ...

go buy some organic honey or agave syrup or molasses


make sure the honey is UNPASTEURIZED other wise you lose the antioxidant value


anything sugar free is very catabolic imo

Originally Posted by mancini

anything sugar free is very catabolic imo

Do you have references to clinical studies which demonstrate that?

- Dan

I would also think that if a product was pasteurized it does NOT kill off the anti-oxidant value. A classic example is orange juice. Orange juice is pasteurized and it still maintains a huge amount of vitamin C. I could be wrong though about honey.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5147209_da...sucralose.html

basically my only problem with sucralose is that its a heavily processed sugar molecule, that has been chlorinated.

most heavily processed items are anti-calories using more energy to breakdown all the crap in it them, then which actually absorbs. hence making it catabolic

and my theory about micronutreints being heat sensitive, well its just a theory, i have to do more research and i will get back to you guys.

Here's an email I got the other day. Normally I dont post shit like this, but just to show my board members the types of emails we get sometimes.

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING?!? LOSING IT? I may have to stop purchasing from you... Don;t you know anything about aspartame and sucralose? There are many web sites and documentaries about negative side effects of aspartame. And one of many web stes of the dangers of sucralose listed below. http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/ . TELL ME YOU DON''T REALLY HAVE SUCRALOSE AND ASPARTAME IN YOUR FORUMLAS!

then the same guy about 5 hours later....guess he was still pissed at me.

Adding acesulfame, aspartame, neosweet, splenda sweeeteners to protein powders - what a waste of perfectly good protein. For someoe who knows so much about protein, how can you know so little about the dangers of artifical sweeteners? There are pobably half a dozen documentaries on google video on the dangers of apartame. All artifical sweetenerst are just as bad. They are all not allowed in Natropath diets and I can them screwing up a naturopath test. If I went to a naturopath and told them I was on on one of your protens, they would just assume the protein is fine not knowing it has artificial sweeters.

Craziness Alex!

If people fear the artificial sweeteners ... DON'T FREAKIN USE THEM!!!

Last time I checked it's a free country and people are still permitted a certain level of freedom of choice ... GEESH!!!

Originally Posted by job561

Craziness Alex!

If people fear the artificial sweeteners ... DON'T FREAKIN USE THEM!!!

Last time I checked it's a free country and people are still permitted a certain level of freedom of choice ... GEESH!!!

Not allowing people to sweeten their mixes with artificial sweeteners would be a suicidal business decision. The vast majority of the population doesn't know or doesn't care about the problems.

The sweeteners are optional. I HATE aspartame, and strongly dislike splenda... but they are not required... Don't those people know that the already sweetened products are the ones you have to worry about?

Originally Posted by AlexRogers

Here's an email I got the other day. Normally I dont post shit like this, but just to show my board members the types of emails we get sometimes.

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Those emails were hilariously pathetic. I just love the whole "natural = good, synthetic = bad" bullshit. Eat some Amanita phalloides mushrooms or improperly prepared fugu and tell me how wonderful "natural" is while you're dying.

As for artificial sweeteners, the doses that you'd need to ingest to see any adverse effects are astronomically large. You'd have some serious metabolic problems if you consumed that much sodium chloride in one day.

Quite frankly, all the health problems caused by the truckloads of sugars, salt and saturated fats many people consume in their shitty diets is where the focus should be, not on artificial sweeteners.

- Dan