The Protein Drink & Snack Tracker
Protein now comes as sodas, milkshakes, bars and candy, some of them built on fats and sugars engineered to skip digestion. This tracker is every one we have read, label by label: what is in the can or wrapper, where the missing grams went, and what the human studies say about those doses. One number per product that matters. Newest first, and updated as the shelf fills.
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Label read
HallPass · Medici Brands (David Protein)
1 g of sugar a pack, but the Candy Pieces hold up to about 20 g of tagatose and allulose combined.
Sep 21, 2026 -
Ingredient read
EPG (“modified plant fat”) · Epogee
Never FDA approved. Its two human trials called 10 g a day “reasonably well tolerated”; oily stool rose at 25–40 g.
Sep 21, 2026 -
Label read
Cha Cha Matcha bar · TRUBAR
12 g of “tapioca fiber” per 50 g bar. The label doesn’t say which kind; FDA counts only one as fiber.
Sep 18, 2026 -
Label read
Protein Shake + Fiber · Optimum Nutrition
30 g of protein, 8 g of soluble corn fiber inside the tested range, and lactase listed. The label checks out.
Sep 18, 2026 -
Label read
Golden Apple protein soda · Proda
Two published labels: 40 calories and no fiber, or 45 with 3 g of acacia. Exactly one ingredient apart.
Sep 18, 2026 -
Label read
Protein Milkshake · Genius Gourmet
“Lactose-free” with no lactase listed, but at most 1 g of milk sugar, against a 12 g tolerance threshold.
Sep 15, 2026 -
Label read
Protein soda · Premier Protein, Protein Pop, Proda
Premier’s can is five ingredients and 15 g of whey. About a tenth of the protein you eat reaches the colon.
Sep 10, 2026 -
Label read
David milkshake · David Protein
Its only fat is EPG, built not to digest. A bottle holds about 2 g, below any dose ever tested for tolerance.
Sep 9, 2026 -
Explainer
High-protein diets · Category-wide
Protein doesn’t constipate; displaced fiber does. Over 90% of women and 97% of men already miss the fiber target.
Jul 13, 2026
How we read these
Every entry is a full piece, not a blurb. We read the label or the study ourselves, check each number against the primary source (the brand’s own panel, the FDA or USDA filing, the paper on PubMed), and say plainly what we could not verify. No brand pays to be here, and no brand sees a piece before it runs.
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Other trackers: Fiber gummies →Prebiotic sodas →GLP-1 & the gut →
Educational reporting on what labels, filings and studies say. Not medical advice, and not a buying guide.