Gold Standard 100 Percent Whey Muscle Building and Recovery Protein Powder with Naturally Occurring Glutamine and BCAA Amino Acids, Double Rich Chocolate Flavour, 10 Servings, 310 g

Why I Swear By It: After trying countless protein powders that clumped, tasted artificial, or upset my stomach, I finally landed on ON Gold Standard. It's the #1 selling whey protein for a reason: it offers premium quality, fantastic taste, and legendary mixability, making it the perfect post-workout recovery tool. The Gold Standard Benefits (The Pros): Elite Protein Blend: This powder isn't just basic whey concentrate. It uses a triple blend: Whey Protein Isolate (WPI) as the primary source, along with concentrate and hydrolysate. WPI is faster absorbing and has a high protein percentage (around 24g per serving) with less fat, cholesterol, and lactose. Unbeatable Mixability: This is its biggest selling point. It dissolves perfectly with just a few shakes in a standard shaker bottle—no clumps, no grit, no need for a blender. You can easily mix it into water, milk, or oatmeal. Effective Recovery: The high BCAA (Branched-Chain Amino Acids) content, particularly Leucine, is vital for kick-starting Muscle Protein Synthesis (MPS) after a tough workout. I notice a significant reduction in muscle soreness and quicker recovery times when I consistently use this. Flavor Variety (and Quality): ON offers the best range of flavours that actually taste good without being sickly sweet. My personal favourites are Double Rich Chocolate (classic and reliable) and Extreme Milk Chocolate (for those who prefer it sweeter). Low in Unwanted Macros: It's low in sugar (usually around 1-3g), fat (1-3g), and calories (around 120-130 kcal per scoop, depending on flavour). Tips for Best Use: Post-Workout: Mix one scoop with 6–8 oz of cold water or milk immediately after training for fast recovery. Quick Snack: I often mix a scoop into my morning coffee for an added protein boost! (It works great in hot drinks too). Final Verdict: The Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey remains the benchmark for performance, taste, and quality. If you want a protein powder that dissolves perfectly, tastes great, and provides the fast-acting protein your muscles need to grow and repair, look no further. This is a reliable, high-quality staple for anyone serious about fitness.

This brand was recommended to me as my protein levels are low. Taste (French Vanilla) is great. Easy to mix and it’s a work in progress as I understand it may take a few months for my levels to go up. But I feel I can see more muscle definition as an added bonus.

Positives: easy to drink, very like milkshake. Fewer calories than many protein drinks, which could be a bonus if you’re counting them or planning on drinking more than one a day. Negatives: personally, I find this cloyingly sweet which makes it feel like junk food. I have also noticed an odd new headache that started right after my first shake. I can’t prove it’s the artificial sweeteners. This shake has sucralose and acefulfame k, the latter of which I haven’t knowingly tried before, but it’s in Coke Zero, so if you tolerate that then this is probably ok. In the past another sweetener, aspartame, has given me a whomping headache. There is no aspartame in this product, but perhaps I’m discovering that I’m sensitive to more than one type of artificial sweetener. I get migraines. Some people have sweeteners as a trigger for the condition; if this affects you then you probably already have noticed. Acefulfame isn’t allowed in baked goods in Europe, but you should probably do your own Googleing about why that is and whether it troubles you. On a different note, I find the instruction to use ‘about one heaped scoop’ really frustrating and annoying. Just give your customers a scoop that’s the right size! It feels like a swizz to make people use the jar up faster than they need to.

Best flavour in my humble opinion, and I go for these smaller tubs as they are small and light enough to throw in your gym/work bag too. Mixes well with water, milk and natural/greek yoghurt too. Great taste, great macros, limited remnants left at the bottom of your shaker too, making cleaning easy with a couple of rinse and shakes. What’s not to like?!

As a Muslim this powder is just right since its vegetarian it is considered Halal, this is my first protein powder I was nervous at first however the taste is just amazing. Container is wellbuilt and sealed tightly therfore the powder doesn't stick together. Really can't go wrong with this, also comes with a scoop!!!

I don’t often write reviews, but wow this protein powder is nice. It doesn’t taste of protein at all, and the strawberry flavour is to die for! I have it with unsweetened almond milk and it tastes exactly like strawberry angel delight. Would drink this even if it wasn’t a protein shake and was just a normal milkshake - it’s so tasty.

Tastes like a milkshake. Strawberry is nice, Vanilla is delicious

It’s soooo sweet I can barely swallow it