Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had gastric sleeve surgery May 2015 and was tasked with increasing my protein intake. My bariatric surgeon offers several shakes, vitamins, and other bariatric foods/beverages at cost for the convenience of patients. Initially, I tried Unjury's unflavored protein from my provider's office. Below is the break down between the two. Unjury Unflavored Protein Powder: -21 g of protein per serving size -Serving size is about 2 tablespoons (Container has 15 servings) -90 Calories per serving -Cost is about $20 -Taste is very good. In a way, it seems to enhance the taste of some foods/beverages, especially those that are sweet. Not sure why that is. -Mixes best with room temperature or warm liquids. Too cold and the powder does not dissolve at all; too hot, and the protein will clump like overcooked cardboard eggs. Musclegen Genepro Unflavored Protein Powder: -30 grams of protein per serving size -Serving size is 1 tablespoon -98 Calories per serving - 30 servings per container -Cost is about $40-60 (depending upon source) -Taste is ok. Not as good as Unjury, but it's not an offensive taste, either. Tolerable. When I add it to coffee and tea, it seems to give the drink a milky/creamy taste and look. -Mixes well at most temperatures, except very hot temps. When the temp of your food or liquid is too hot, again, you get the cardboard scrambled egg effect. I am able to mix the powder with cold or iced beverages. It doesn't dissolve 100%, but probably about 90%-95%. Overall, I have to give the edge to Musclegen Genepro. First, it's so much easier to mix 1 tablespoon of powder into a liquid than to mix 2 tablespoons. The extra powder in Unjury sometimes causes me to have to adjust my food to fix the flavor. For example, when I add the Unjury to yogurt, it's so much powder that I have to add some stevia a a spash of almond milk or cream to sweeten and loosen up the yogurt/Unjury protein mixture. I don't have to do that with the Genepro because the amount of powder I am adding to the food is smaller in comparison. Next,with the Genepro, I have a little more flexibility in my beverage temperature since it does dissolve pretty well in colder liquids. While the price of Genepro is more, if you purchase the Genepro for $40 or less, the product has a better value than the Unjury because of the differences between the serving amounts (15 servings versus 30 servings). Finally, the #1 reason why I have decided to stay with Genepro is the protein amt to serving size ratio. Genepro has 30 g/1 tablespoon. Unjury has 21 g/2 tablespoons. Any protein powder mix that I have tried will do the cardboard egg transformation when mixing with liquids that are too hot. This issue is not unique to Genepro. I just put some Genepro in my hot tea. I added my boiling water, let the bag steep, then I cool the liquid for a few minutes and add my protein powder. The liquid is still got, but not hot enough to clump. If you absolutely have to have steaming hot beverages, yiu probably won't ever be able to add any protein powder, regardless of brand due. My suggestion, just let the liquid cool some. Sometimes I test my liquid temp by adding a few sprinkles of the powder to make sure it is not too hot. If it's too hot, the sprinkles will clump. If that's the case, I wait a bit more to allow more cooling, test again, if no clumping, I add the rest of the tablespoon. I have included a picture of my morning coffee to show that the Genepro completely dissolved. NOTE: In my cup, I have coffee, a splash of half & half, Genepro, and a tablespoon of Torani Sugarfree Hazlenut syrup. I usually make coffee using a french press. By the time I am pouring my cup of coffee after letting it brew in my French Press of Bel Air, the liquid, while still hot, is not too hot to curdle my protein mix. If you find your liquid too cool, after adding the protein, put the container into the microwave for 10-15 seconds to obtain your desired temp. So in summary, if adding to hot coffee/tea/soups don't just dump the powder in the coffee immediately before or after brewing, give your beverage sometime to cool. If Genepro was no longer on the market, I would go back to Unjury. Unjury is not bad, at all. It beats Genepro in taste and texture. Unjury also has many other products (i.e. chicken soup flavored protein, vitamins, ect.) that are worth looking into.