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Nutrition

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Epic Protein Bar

EPIC Protein Bars Review — Meat Based Bars?

EPIC Protein Bars offer a unique take on the standard on-the-go protein focused snack. Compared to the traditional protein bar that often resembles a candy bar, or comes loaded with fiber, EPIC's bars are ... Continue Reading

Ample K Meal Replacement Review

Ample K Review – A Keto Meal Replacement, But What About Fats?

Ample was founded by former CrossFit® box owner Connor Young in 2015 and they produce a meal replacement with a hook: it's made from all natural, "whole food" ingredients. It doesn't have any artificial ... Continue Reading

Upwild Protein Shake

Upwild Review – A Vegan Protein Shake That’s Probably Nutritious?

Upwild is a pretty new company that’s run by a brother-sister duo in Brooklyn, New York. Sold in bottles of twelve fluid ounces, the product labels itself as a "plant-powered protein shake" and delivers 16 ... Continue Reading

several protein bars on a table

Quest Protein Bar Review (2025): We Tried 13 Flavors of This Popular Protein Bar

Just about all of the best protein bars will offer flavors like Chocolate Brownie or Peanut Butter Chocolate. But if your refined palette craves unique, delectable flavors — like, say, Peppermint Bark or ... Continue Reading

CalNaturale Svelte Organic Protein Shake Review – Nutritious Shake or Meal Replacement?

Svelte is part of CalNaturale, a company based in Northern California that actually makes a lot of boxed wine, but they also produce Svelte. They come in little portable cartons of 11 fluid ounces and ... Continue Reading

Meal replacement by Huel

Huel Review – A Vegan Meal Replacement High in Omega-3?

Huel is a British company that produces a meal replacement product that was formulated by nutritionist James Collier. The goal: to come up with a supplement that contains 100 percent of the daily nutrients ... Continue Reading

RXBAR Protein Bar Review.

RXBAR Review — Is Simple Better?

Since their beginning in 2013, RXBAR has grown in popularity across multiple demographics with their NO BS approach to protein bars. Two best friends founded RXBAR to develop a solution to combat the often ... Continue Reading

SlimFast Meal Replacement

SlimFast Original Shake Mix Review – Great Nutrients But Low in Protein?

SlimFast is a U.S. company headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida that was founded all the way back in 1977 and per the name, they're all about weight loss. In addition to their famous shakes, the ... Continue Reading

Hol Food Nutrition Shake

Hol Food Review – Everything the Body Needs?

Hol Food is a Canadian company that produces a chocolatey meal replacement powder that they describe in no uncertain terms as “an all-in-one nutritional shake made up of everything your body ... Continue Reading

Isagenix IsaLean Shake on table

Isagenix IsaLean Shake Review — Can It Really Replace Your Next Meal?

The rundown of ingredients on the Isagenix IsaLean Shake label may inspire a bit of envy among the best meal replacement shakes. With 23 vitamins and minerals, 24 grams of protein, and 8 grams of fiber in ... Continue Reading

A review of GreenBlender smoothies

GreenBlender Smoothie Review – Is the Taste Worth the Price?

GreenBlender believes everyone needs more fruits and vegetables, which is something just about everyone involved in health can get behind. That’s why the company came to fruition (get it?), in order to ... Continue Reading

Review of BulkSupplements Whey protein

BulkSupplements Whey Protein Isolate Review – How’s It Taste?

BulkSupplements.com (the “.com” is part of the company’s name) is based in Henderson, Nevada, and they produce over four hundred different kinds of supplements from herbal extracts to sports supplements. ... Continue Reading

Review of Eve Women's Multi Capsule

NOW Eve™ Softgels Superior Women’s Multi-Vitamin Review

Eve™ Softgels Superior Women's Multi is a women’s multivitamin that is made by NOW Health Group Inc, which is a brand you may have heard of— they sell natural foods and teas in addition to supplements. ... Continue Reading

ON's Opti-Fit in container

Optimum Nutrition Opti-Fit Shake Review – Chickpea, Oats, and Whey

Optimum Nutrition is one of the best known supplement companies in the world, and there's one reason: Gold. Standard. ON's Gold Standard Whey is probably the most popular whey protein powder on the market, ... Continue Reading

An image of GNC's Total Lean Shake

GNC Total Lean Shake Review – Pretty Nutritious, But What About the Taste?

GNC is an enormously popular chain of supplement stores that has thousands of locations in the United States and stores in fifty other countries around the world. Because they own their own stores and ... Continue Reading

A review of Vi Nutritional Shake

Visalus Vi-Shape Nutritional Shake Mix Review – Is Britney Spears Right?

Vi-Shape is a high protein meal replacement sold by Visalus, a supplement company that was founded in 2005. The company is pretty well known for starting what's called the Body By Vi challenge. This is a ... Continue Reading

Protein Cake Bites

Optimum Nutrition Protein Cake Bites Review — Tastes Like Real Cake?

In early 2017, Optimum Nutrition dropped their Protein Cake Bites, which shook the protein bar landscape. There were other "bite" oriented protein snacks on shelves, but few, if any, took the approach of ... Continue Reading

TSOGO Meal Replacement Review

Tsogo 100% Food Replacement Review – Great Price, Great Nutrition?

“Tsogo” is a word in Setswana, a language spoken by approximately four million people and originating in southern Africa, that means “resurrection” or “new life.” And the meal replacement company has some ... Continue Reading

Raw Grass Fed Whey

Raw Grass Fed Whey Review – A Super Transparent Whey?

Raw Grass Fed Whey is a product of an Iowa-based company that is also called Raw Grass Fed Whey™ although the company also sells Raw Organic Whey under the name Raw Organic Whey™. The difference is that ... Continue Reading

Ambronite Review

Ambronite Drinkable Supermeal Review – Naturally Complete Nutrition?

Manufactured in Finland, Ambronite straight up says that it's "the most complete meal replacement available" and contains "everything your body needs." Those are some pretty serious claims, and they're ... Continue Reading

ON Gold Standard Plant Based Protein

Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Plant-Based Protein Review – Do Gums Matter?

Optimum Nutrition is one of the best-known names in the supplement industry, and with good reason. Their ubiquitous whey protein, Gold Standard Whey, may be the best-known and most widely consumed protein ... Continue Reading

Plant Fusion Complete Plant Protein Shake

PlantFusion Complete Plant Protein Review – The Most Hypoallergenic?

Based in Edison, New Jersey, PlantFusion was founded by two guys who already worked in the nutrition industry. One created a popular chain of health food stores and the other a "nutritional innovation ... Continue Reading

Sprout Living Epic Plant Based Protein

Sprout Living Epic Plant-Based Protein Review – Where Are the Vitamins?

Sprout Living is a supplement company that strongly believes in the potential benefits of an organic, plant-based diet, writing on their site that it "can help act as the foundation for a healthy life ... Continue Reading

Ideal Raw Organic Protein Shake

IdealRaw Organic Protein Shake Review — Super High in Iron

IdealRaw is part of IdealShape, a nutrition company based in Utah that has several different branches with different foci, including IdealShake, IdealBar, IdealLean, IdealBoost, and so on. IdealRaw is a ... Continue Reading

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