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serves me right for not reading the ingredient list first!!
I wanted to find a good-tasting vegan protein powder for DH. We went with this one for two reasons. First, the praise of a vegan blogger, second, my belief that Bob's Red Mill was a good company.
Little did I know that BRM had sunk to the marketing depths of dark slime, where they use deception in labeling to get people to buy their product. On the front of the bag it says, "sweetened with monk fruit."
I know better than to take crap like that at face value, but I trusted BRM (notice the PAST tense there). However, this protein powdered is sweetened with more than monk fruit.
It. Has. Sugar.
Not "organic evaporated cane juice" or anything like that. No. The so-called "vanilla flavoring" contains plain-old, bleached-white sugar.
But wait! That's not all.
It also contains corn starch. WTH??? And it's not even GM-free corn starch.
I don't feed my family crap, so this bag is going to the local food bank. And Bob's Red Mill has lost my business forever. I don't put up with that manipulative marketing B.S.
December 2018 · Health and Household · verified purchase