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Vegan protein powders with low heavy metals: Health Ranger reveals the cleanest products tested so far


Vegan proteins

(NaturalNews) When it comes to purchasing protein supplements, buyer beware! As Natural News has now exhaustively documented, rice protein products sold right now across health food stores like Whole Foods are contaminated with toxic heavy metals.

This story is now going global, with mainstream media now picking up this shocking news and millions of grassroots activists taking notice.

The fact that rice protein products sold right now are contaminated with toxic lead, cadmium and tungsten is scientifically irrefutable. But which proteins can you trust to be clean?

As a leading food research scientist now spearheading this global effort to expose toxic heavy metals in popular products, I've conducted extensive research using atomic spectroscopy instrumentation at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs.

And that research has revealed which protein products are clean vs. which ones are contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten, all of which are linked to serious degenerative diseases.

If you're interested in how I conduct world-class heavy metals testing, click here to see my videos from the Natural News Labs, where I walk you through the process.

The cleanest products we've found so far

All the products listed below were found to be extremely clean in terms of heavy metals, often at near-zero levels. Keep in mind, however, that our lab does not test for pesticides or other contaminants. We test for heavy metals only. The good news is that all these products are so low in heavy metals, they pose no risk whatsoever of heavy metals poisoning.

These are presented in no particular order. Click here to see the full laboratory results at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs.

Life's Basics Plant Protein Mix from LifeTime

This protein, which I purchased at Whole Foods, is one of the cleanest vegan proteins around. It's made from a combination of mostly yellow pea protein and hemp seed, with a small amount of rice protein in the mix.

Unfortunately, some of the flavors are made with fructose, a refined sugar that I normally wouldn't recommend consuming. Still, the level of fructose in the product is probably very low, considering it's also sweetened with xylitol and stevia.

Learn more about this product line at:
http://www.lifetimevitamins.com/life-s-basic...

Warrior Blend Raw Vegan Protein from SunWarrior

The SunWarrior "Warrior Blend" products have consistently tested very clean in terms of heavy metals. This is different from their non-blended "classic" rice protein line which so far tests considerably higher.

The Warrior Blend products are made from a combination of pea protein, cranberry protein and hemp protein. As you might expect, these all tend to be very clean sources of dietary proteins.

My only complaint with Warrior Blend is about the intensity of the sweeteners used in the blend. For my taste, they're just a little too intense. But that's a personal preference and I know many other people who really enjoy the taste.

Learn more at:
http://www.sunwarrior.com/store/warrior-blen...

Boku Super Protein In the Buff by Boku Superfood

Boku Superfood has just come out with a new super clean protein based on the Sacha Inchi seed from the rainforest.

It's called "Super Protein In the Buff" and it tests very low in all heavy metals, with zero tungsten. Boku is one of the many companies that has been rapidly developing new, improved formulations to release to the public, and I believe this is the first press coverage of their new product based on sacha inchi.

In fact, this is the only sacha inchi product in this list (so far).

Learn more at:
http://bokulovelife.com/shop/super-protein-4...

PlantFusion from Nutra Fusion Nutritionals

PlantFusion tests very clean of heavy metals and uses a truly unique combination of proteins such as pea protein, artichoke protein, sprouted amaranth powder and other innovative ingredients.

The product tastes great but also contains fructose like a few other proteins. If not for the fructose, this would be a five-star product. Even with the fructose, it's still something worth considering unless you're really trying to cut all sugars from your diet.

Learn more at:
http://www.plantfusion.us/products.html

100% Vegan Protein Powder from Biochem

This result was a pleasant surprise. Before I ran all these tests, I wasn't familiar with the Biochem line of protein products, but it turns out their vegan protein powders are very clean in terms of heavy metals.

Similar to some other products mentioned here, Biochem's protein formulation is based on pea protein, hemp protein and cranberry protein.

This blend seems to taste very nice and perform really well in terms of heavy metals testing, so I wouldn't be surprised to see more companies pick up on it.

Click here to see more details from Biochem.

Performance Protein and Protein Smoothie from Vega

The Vega company, based in Canada, has consistently produced very clean protein products in terms of heavy metals. Everything I've tested from this company has been relatively clean.

Vega told me part of the reason is because they must also adhere to strict Health Canada requirements, which are far more stringent than anything by the FDA in the USA.

Many of the rice protein products sold in the USA, for example, would be illegal to sell in Canada due to their high levels of lead.

Learn more about Vega protein products at:
http://www.MyVega.com

Hemp Protein from Nutiva

Nutiva's hemp protein products have always tested very, very clean in terms of heavy metals. In fact, I've never tested a hemp protein product that showed any concerning levels of any heavy metal.

Perhaps this is because a lot of hemp is grown in Canada where the environment is relatively well protected. It might also be related to the plant itself and its unwillingness to uptake high levels of toxic metals even if they are present in the soils.

More research is needed on this point, actually, and I'm hoping to conduct it myself in a greenhouse laboratory in the future where I plan to test heavy metals uptake by various plants in contaminated soil.

Learn more about Nutiva's products at:
http://www.Nutiva.com

Hemp Protein from Ruth's Foods

Ruth's Foods hemp-based products have consistently tested very clean in terms of heavy metals.

Click here to see the actual numbers from the lab. (All the numbers you see in this chart are extremely low.)

In fact, Ruth's Hemp Protein is about 1/10th the lead levels we've found in some rice protein products. That's a huge deal when you're consuming protein on a daily basis.

Ruth's is also a Canadian company, and one of the patterns we tend to see in our testing is that Canadian superfood companies consistently produce really clean products overall.

Learn more at:
http://www.RuthsHempFoods.com

Sproutein from Sprout Living

Sproutein is probably the most nutrient-dense protein you'll ever find. It's made from various sprouts, pumpkin seeds, goji berries and other superfoods.

The taste can be rather intense for people not used to consuming superfoods, but the nutrition is just top-notch. Personally, I would highly recommend this protein to anyone battling a serious disease and trying to restore vibrant health.

The heavy metals levels in this product tested very low, a fact that isn't surprising considering it's not made from rice protein.

Learn more at:
http://www.SproutLiving.com

Living Protein by Living Fuel

Living Fuel has introduced a new formula for 2014, and I've tested it for heavy metals. It showed very clean results, clocking it at around 1/10th the lead found in some rice protein products.

Living Fuel is a high-quality, direct-to-customer supplier of several very innovative meal replacement products and protein products.

Living Fuel Protein is based on a blend of pea protein and some rice protein. Pea protein tends to be very clean overall, so most formulas based on pea proteins will test quite clean.

Click here to see pea proteins laboratory results at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs.

Learn more about Living Fuel at:
http://www.LivingFuel.com

Bottom line? Do your homework before consuming ANY protein product!

The lesson in all this is that the protein product marketplace contains both clean and contaminated proteins.

Your job is to learn to tell the difference, and my job is to run the lab tests that empower you with those answers.

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It is store sales, in fact, that allowed us to build our laboratory and bring you this news in the first place! That's why I genuinely thank you for all your support!

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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

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