✓clean short listAn ingredient list you can read aloud without pausing. Rarer than it should be.
✓digestive enzymesDigeZyme-style enzymes that help whey sit easier, useful if milk usually argues with you.
⚠herbal add-insAshwagandha/green-tea-extract style botanicals, the exact category the 2024 Indian study flagged as liver-stressing in bulk. Fine occasionally, not by the kilo.
The fine print
Dates: Lets a pack say ‘no added sugar’ truthfully. It’s still sugar, just fruit-shaped, with fibre attached. Cleaner than syrup, not the same as sugar-free.
Monk fruit: Plant-derived, zero-calorie, well-tolerated. Often blended with erythritol as a bulking agent, check for that.
FSSAI: 63 g/100 g · 14.3 g/100 kcal, may legally print “HIGH PROTEIN” via the per-100 g + per-100 kcal route. Pea + rice isolates with actual pistachios and almonds, hence 15.5 g fat/100 g, triple its cocoa sibling.