Comment · Mon, November 2, 2020 · ND Owner
Vegan Protein Powder
Original post in this thread
heehooheehoo0 · 1 points
I was wondering if you guys would be willing to sell protein powder. Specifically plant protein powder. I’m exercising currently with a lot of your supplements and they are proving to be helpful. However, the one thing I’m missing is protein powder. Will it be something you stock soon?
What they were answering
Direct reply to the original post — see the thread post above.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Possibly, yes. The issue is that testing protein is very difficult to do properly. Most places just don't do it, and use the manufacturer COA. The places that do test use shitty methodologies that are not proper for what we would consider good science.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6702227/
So you can see it is not simple, and even the LC-MS/MS triple quad methodologies are not sufficient by themselves. Just for reference, a triple quad LC-MS is minimum $250,000, but more often $500K or more. We are going to get one for our lab at some point, but I have not pulled the trigger yet. We got quotes and know the way we want to go, but that's a lot of money to drop at once. We'll get there, though.