Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53452632
This is a long and very thorough article. If you're using any particular brand of protein supplements, it might be worth searching the text for the name to catch all the relevant discussion (the measurements, whether the company is responding, etc.)
It's been a long time since I read outputs from independent labs assessing supplement product purity but I was pointed towards this around a month ago:
I'm not sure who are the most trustworthy labs at this point though and maybe there's a nutritionist or someone who can give more than my peanut gallery advice.
This is even more confusing, because some of the brands and products on that clean list are explicitly mentioned in the article to have dangerous levels of heavy metals (Optimum Nutrition, Garden of Life)
It might have to do with protein source. E.g. Garden of Life on the CR list is the plant based one, whereas on this clean list, it's the protein one.
Plant based protein sources were generally found to have more lead
Yay, I see my tub there. Hope it's trustworthy.
Edit: mine's actually different flavour. I do hope it's lead free.