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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/health@lemmy.world
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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.)

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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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

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