NAKED Shake – Vegan Protein Powder, Strawberry Banana – Flavored Plant Based Protein with Mct Oil, Gluten-Free, Soy-Free, No Gmos Or Artificial Sweeteners – 30 Servings

A shake with ingredients that make sense
I’m somewhat new to protein shakes so I gave Naked a chance. The Hot Cocoa was the 4th bottle I’ve purchased. The others are Chocolate Peanut Butter, Pumpkin Spice, and Chocolate Almond.Flavor: The Chocolate Peanut Butter is my favorite one. It’s like having a milk shake for breakfast. The other 3 are all good as well but I’ll probably stick with my favorite. The Hot Cocoa tastes like normal chocolate. I’m not sure what’s different about this one.Mixability: I use a normal cup with a lid and shake shake shake. I’m usually left with little to no clumps. However, if there is a clump, at least it tastes good! I’m never grossed out by it. I have noticed that if I use a spoon rather than shaking, then it will be super clumpy.Content: I’m not vegan, but I don’t eat meat and I have a dairy intolerance so I appreciate this being vegan. It never upsets my stomach. The calorie and protein amount suit my needs just fine. Also this uses actual sugar which is excellent! I hate artificial sweeteners and monk fruit tastes weird. But sugar? Perfect. My body already knows how to digest it, so I don’t have to worry about introducing a new ingredient.Versatility: I’ve mostly had this shake as a breakfast replacement. It keeps me full until lunch or pairs well with a piece of fruit for a snack if I’m really hungry that day. I’ve added chia seeds (soaked overnight), ground flax, and hemp hearts for extra nutrition but Naked Shake is fine on its own without any mix ins. I’ve seen you can also use the powder in brownies or other baked goods but I have not tried that yet.Overall this brand is great and I keep coming back to it. It’s just over a dollar a serving so I believe it’s the best value compared to some of the others on the market.

Ok Blueberry Lovers — manage your expectations.
You know that feeling when you’re excited to try a new protein shake flavor, and you get it home and try it, and you hate it, but it costs $40 so you just resign yourself to drinking disgustingness for the next month?Without precautions, buyers of the Blueberry Muffin flavor could fall into that trap, beware. But if you’re a blueberry flavor lover like me, you’re probably tempted to try it anyway, so let me give you a few tips. Please note that I said blueberry FLAVOR. I also love blueberries, but this tastes like that artificial blueberry flavor, not like actual blueberries. That is important. If you like fresh blueberries but don’t eat blueberry candy because it “tastes fake,” walk away now, you will not like this.Also, even for those who DO like artificial blueberry flavor…DO NOT USE THIS AS A THE ONLY INGREDIENT IN YOUR SHAKE! It is way too strong of a flavor. Not sure what they had to cover up but the flavor is STRONG with this one, and it is SWEET. It’s a creamy type of sweet, not that sharp sweet with some artificial sweetness, and that’s something I can work with. I add monk fruit to most of my protein shakes, but if I have this powder I. The mix, there’s usually no need. Typically, I like to do a ratio of 2 scoops this stuff with one scoop of plain pumpkin seed protein powder and a scoop of collegen if I want to just taste blueberry (side note: if you add pea-flower tea and blue spirulina as well, it will actually be naturally blue lol), and one scoop of this to two scoops of another protein powder if I want to mix the flavor with something else. A favorite is adding a tbsp of cocoa powder for a “blueberry chocolate muffin” kinda thing. I also like doing that with some frozen strawberries for a kind of summer fruity chocolate mix that reminds me of the 4th of July as a kid lolOverall, I would give it a 3.5, but I’m rounding up cuz I know everyone is gonna say it sucks, and if you try to have it alone, it does, they aren’t wrong. But as long as you don’t make it your PRIMARY protein powder for the next month, imo it’s worth a try. You still might hate it, but at least have something to cut it with.

So to begin with I have tried lots and lots of different protein powders out there and have thrown a lot of money away. I am vegan so finding a protein powder is essential.So first the lid, yes it’s very tight. I just got out my bartender’s wine corkscrew opener and pulled the tab/ lever part out and wedged it under the edge of the lid and kind of braced it against the side of the bottle and pulled up which causes the lid to pull out from the neck a bit. I did this all around the lid about 2/3 of the way and the lid just opened easily. You could probably do this with a spoon or a butter knife as well but the corkscrew actually kind of braces nicely under the edge of the lid and was very stable.Now the powder, It’s very vanilla, the people who don’t think so may be drinking it with a bunch of other stuff in it because mine is very nice smelling. the texture is really good for pea protein, it has no gums in it so it doesn’t turn into a hard partially wet mass and mixes very well with Ripple pea milk. I’m not big on huge sweetness so I do find it a bit sweet for me but I am getting some of the unflavoured and will do half and half. I has all of the essential amino acids and I think all the remaining ones as well. It is not chalky at all in my opinion but I am used to some truly unpleasant vegan powders that are slimy, chalky, so sweet it makes your head hurt, contain stevia which is revolting or gummy. I think if you find it chalky you may be used to whey protein because this is very good. I don’t mix it with water but a milk that is a little thickened so the texture may be different with different liquids and it also stays mixed quite well with the milk I use although I do shake it before I drink because I just take it as powder and milk with no other additions. I found another great protein powder but I had a lot of B vitamins in it and I am really sesitive and don’t sleep well with too many B’s but this is good, doesn’t have a load of gums or weird stuff added and I can get 40-60g of protein in easily out of what I try for which is 100g per day, yes, I am almost a daily failure in this but I try. So now I finally found something I think I can use long term after so many fails, I am grateful.

Like others mentioned, the lid is almost impossible to get off short of blowing it off with dynamite (after days of trying every single internet hack, the only thing that worked was using the spoon trick). As for the protein powder itself, it took some getting used to (although in all fairness I’m a newbie to protein shakes) so I found it overly sweet in the beginning. I tried mixing it with various non-dairy milks and surprisingly, the one I find works best to cut the sweetness is non-sweetened chocolate almond milk.