oh god it's the most disgusting of all proteins. can anyone really consume it without any additives? I thought hemp protein was pretty bad, but oh boy does pea take the crown.
Rice protein tastes ok (a bit like mushrooms), but casein and of collagen protein are the only ones that are actually tasty by themselves, just diluted with water.
I really really wanted to like pea protein, but calling it wet cardboard is really doing a disservice to the wet cardboard cuisine.
I fear with this kind of campaign behind it it will now find its way to the majority of shakes and meals and the taste will be just everywhere.
> can anyone really consume it without any additives?
Isn't this kind of a strange complaint when you're talking about protein extract of any sort? You're not talking about food, you're talking about an ingredient.
Good lord. I never imagined people were intended to just eat scoops of the stuff. I add a few ounces to sauces or ramen I'm making, it thickens them a bit and doesn't affect the taste. They could probably tolerate much more.
Pea protein is in really high concentration to have that much protein in a drink. It's also so refined that the fructose in the pea won't be a problem to digest.
It’s not supposed to taste delicious on its own. Few eat pure soy or any other protein. I have and personally I feel rice is chalky. Pea seems smooth and creamy to me. It’s best mixed in with other food.
It blends well with rice protein though. 50/50 isn't bad. You might try out something like True Nutrition, where you can make your own custom blends. It's also not bad either when it's an ingredient in things. (Beyond products, etc.)
Hemp protein is pretty disgusting, I agree. It's gritty and slimy, and the texture by itself is horrible.
I don't mind pea protein. I just mix it with water and chug it after workouts. I don't particularly care for the taste, because it truly is quite bland, but I don't mind drinking it with water at all.
I've tried half a dozen brands. The best you can do is dilute it. There are some brands I like ("Aloha" for instance) but they mostly defeat the plant protein by diluting it sufficiently with carbs.
Zenni is the main online company in the US selling eyeglasses for actually reasonably prices. Downside is that you don't get to try them on before you buy them, and I'm not a huge fan of their styles.
Zenni is great for frames. But if your eyesight is seriously bad (ie, -10 diopter) you're much better off getting lenses put into Zenni frames at a local optometrist. Zenni doesn't do things like lens edge bevel which becomes necessary once your eyeglasses are 1cm+ thick at the edges.
And no, high index of refraction lenses like Zenni pushes just makes things worse. High index lenses all have very low abbe number and their chromatic abberation is so bad at high diopter that I can even read the license plates of cars in the lane next to me while wearing them. They're only good for vision straight ahead.
In India there is Lenskart, who even have physical stores where you can try out frames, and then they ship the glasses to you. Last time I tried I got two numbers of specs, with the top of the line optics available with them for something like 65$.
because smoking addiction is largely psychological
smoking a 0mg e-cig is as pleasing as smoking an e-cig loaded with nicotine. Speaking from personal experience of smoking over 10 years. Quit at some point for a few years, found out about e-cigs, made some 0mg juice myself, enjoyed it. Burned a few e-cigs and eventually bounced back to regular cigarettes. Smoked for a few years, then quit for good.
The pleasure of a cigarette is not in the effect that nicotine has, but more in the ritual, watching the smoke coming out your mouth, the burning sensation, the deeper inhalation.
It seems pretty accurate. The South Coast Air Quality Management District tested a bunch of consumer devices against a $30,000 professional device. I was deciding between the IQAir and Laser Egg 2+, which both did well according to their tests http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/field. I got the Laser Egg 2+ the other day. It's really enlightening to see how it spikes when we cook dinner or lunch on the gas stove.
Pretty accurate, there was an air quality report which compared about 3-4 samples of them with commercial air monitors - the lab found them adequate with some but not massive sample variance. They were the best of the consumer models tested.
Can’t seem to find the report but to be honest I stumbled on it while searching for PDFs on the subject a year or two back. (I own no stock nor have any affiliation with IQAir - just a satisfied customer - high price not withstanding).
The "TFA Dostmann AirCO2ntrol" devices are popular in Germany. Searching for "co2 meter" on Amazon.com one of the top results is an identical looking device.
It measures with an infrared spectroscopy-based sensor, which should be quite accurate. There are a few good software packages for recording data, e.g. https://github.com/vfilimonov/co2meter.
Repost from my comment above, but for a couple hundred bucks you can get an accurate CO2 sensor that reads out via USB-serial to a computer. I use them at work and we've shown they are quite good over the long term. Plus to recalibrate, you can just take them outside. https://www.co2meter.com/products/k-30-co2-sensor-module
Rice protein tastes ok (a bit like mushrooms), but casein and of collagen protein are the only ones that are actually tasty by themselves, just diluted with water.
I really really wanted to like pea protein, but calling it wet cardboard is really doing a disservice to the wet cardboard cuisine.
I fear with this kind of campaign behind it it will now find its way to the majority of shakes and meals and the taste will be just everywhere.