Does the product taste different/better?
[quote]RIT Jared wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Looks like I can’t stop posting. For example, here is the total amino acid profile, listed on the label, of a brand I will leave unamed and don’t use personally.
Non-Essential Amino Acids
Alanine 4.285g
Arginine 2.841
Aspartic Acid 10.109
Cysteine 2.455
Glutamine/Glutamic Acid? 19.240
Glycine 1.852
Proline 5.165
Serine 4.076
Tyrosine 3.659
Essential Amino Acids
Histidine 2.613
Isoleucine (BCAA) 5.439
Leucine (BCAA) 11.032
Lysine 8.687
Methionine 2.291
Phenylalanine 3.627
Threonine 5.419
Tryptophan 1.701
Valine (BCAA) 5.511
That’s what I would like to see with Surge. Am I going to stop using it because Biotest does not break it down like this? No. But that’s what I would prefer.
I would seriously question any supplement company that claimed to carry their amino acid profiles out to 3 decimal places.
If you can’t see the difference between bound and unbound amino acids then I’m afraid I can’t help you any further. Best of luck on your next nutritional label.[/quote]
What the fuck, dude? That was called an example. An example. Merely to showcase the fact that they listed the various amino acids. At the least, I I’d like to know the full amounts of the BCAAs in Surge. I could give a shit about the decimal places and the validity of this particular label of a product I don’t use. I can’t understand why people are getting so touchy over this.
And, yes. Free amino acids don’t behave in the same way as peptide or protein-bound amino acids during hydrolysis because their rates of release or destruction are variable. An internal standard can be used to address this. In any case, I fail to see the relevance of that to this discussion. Sorry.
Not sure if this is the true answer why Biotest did it, but it could possibly be so that NCAA S&C coaches could give Surge to their athletes as a supplement. I believe NCAA regulations only allow supplements to have up to 30% of the total calories in it be protein.
-LH
[quote]LevelHeaded wrote:Not sure if this is the true answer why Biotest did it, but it could possibly be so that NCAA S&C coaches could give Surge to their athletes as a supplement. I believe NCAA regulations only allow supplements to have up to 30% of the total calories in it be protein.
-LH
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Surge still contains 25g protein per 340 calorie serving, so the percentage of protein has not changed.
[quote]jojotheloner wrote:
I like that it’s 3 scoops now. It makes it more simple to drink 1/3 pre-workout, 1/3 during, and 1/3 post.[/quote]
I was wondering about this. I was thinking I would keep the original scoop and just use one during and one post. But this way might be easier.