first on the label · Maltodextrin, milk solids (SMP, WPC, WPI, MPC), sucrose, barley malt extract, cocoa, micellar casein, DigeZyme, xanthan (INS 415), full list read.
✓digestive enzymesDigeZyme-style enzymes that help whey sit easier, useful if milk usually argues with you.
⚠thickener gumsGuar/xanthan/CMC/carrageenan, thickness that reads as 'richness'. Harmless for most, bloating for some.
The fine print
Sugar: Plain added sugar, the honest villain. Counted by the gram in the Clean score.
Maltodextrin: A starch that legally isn’t ‘sugar’, so it never shows in the sugar line, yet has a glycemic index of 85–105, higher than table sugar. The classic ‘sugar-free’ loophole.
Sucralose: Zero-calorie artificial sweetener. Regulators rate it safe at normal intake; a 2023 lab study flagged a trace impurity (sucralose-6-acetate) as genotoxic in cells. Doses there were far above what a scoop delivers.
FSSAI: 18 g/100 g · 4.9 g/100 kcal, may legally print “HIGH PROTEIN” via the per-100 g route. ‘Mass gainer’ is honest branding: 70 g carbs to 18 g protein, much of it maltodextrin, a starch with a higher blood-sugar spike than table sugar that never has to call itself sugar.