What Is the Best Keto Protein Powder?

Are you looking for the best keto protein powder? Learn how to easily supplement your protein intake on the keto diet.

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Keto Protein Powder

Is Protein Powder Keto-Friendly? 

The keto (ketogenic) diet is a low carbohydrate, high fat diet that puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis.

It has been shown to help with weight loss and is recommended by a growing number of health and wellness professionals.

The most common approach to the keto diet involves getting 70-80 percent of your calories from fat, 5-10 percent from carbs, and 10-20 percent from protein.

For a 2000-calorie diet, this translates to about 165 grams of fats, 40 grams of carbohydrates, and 75 grams of protein per day.

Some people, especially those with dietary restrictions, have trouble eating 75 grams of protein every day.

For them, protein powder can be a lifesaver.

Adding protein powder to your diet is an easy way to ensure that you are meeting your protein goals on the keto diet.

It can be mixed with just milk or water to make a simple protein shake, or added to keto-friendly recipes.

Not all protein powders are keto-friendly, however, due to their carbohydrate content.

For a protein powder to be considered keto-friendly, it should have 5 grams of net carbs or less per serving.

As a reminder, net carbs are Total Carbs – Fiber – Sugar Alcohols (if applicable).

In order to keep the number of carbs low, avoid added sugars and high glycemic additives like maltodextrin.

You may also want to stick to animal-based protein powders as they tend to have fewer carbs than plant-based ones.

Among the types of protein powder that tend to have the fewest carbs are beef, egg white, collagen, and whey.

Our Vanilla Egg White Protein Powder, for example, has only 2 grams of carbs per serving.

Keep in mind that although some protein concentrates and isolates contain zero carbs, they might not be a healthy choice.

Protein concentrates and isolates have been mechanically and/or chemically stripped of everything but the protein, including the enzymes, fiber, and other natural digestive aids that help you break them down.

Your digestive system therefore does not digest them in the same way that it does whole foods, which can affect everything from satiety to gut health.

In fact, studies show that regularly eating protein concentrates and isolates can disrupt your gut microbiome and cause the formation of toxic byproducts in your gut.

So, when shopping for keto protein powder, remember that fewer carbs might mean more processing, which is not a good thing.

What Is the Best Protein Powder for Keto?

Not all keto-friendly protein powders are created equal.

Unfortunately, many of them contain ingredients known to cause painful side effects and long term health problems.

Among these ingredients are food additives.

Avoid food additives

Regularly eating emulsifiers, thickeners, and other additives can not only upset your stomach, but also alter the composition of your gut microbiome – the collection of microorganisms living in your gut.

This can lead to gut dysbiosis, or an imbalance in your gut microbiota, which has been linked to the development of chronic diseases like obesity and colorectal cancer. 

Because your gut microbiome affects various physiological processes, including immune function, when the balance of bacteria therein is disrupted, it can have a huge impact on your overall health.

Here is a list of the most common food additives in protein supplements:

• acacia fiber
• acacia gum
• acesulfame potassium
• artificial flavors
• ascorbic acid
• aspartame
• calcium carbonate
• carrageenan
• cellulose gum
• dextrin
• dicalcium phosphate
• dipotassium phosphate
• erythritol
• gellan gum
• guar gum
• gum arabic
• inulin
• locust bean gum
• maltitol
• maltodextrin
• mono- and diglycerides
• ‘natural’ flavors
• rice bran extract
• rice dextrin
• rice hulls
• rosemary extract
• silica
• silicon dioxide
• sodium alginate
• soluble corn fiber
• sorbitol
• soy lecithin
• sucralose
• sunflower lecithin
• tocopherols
• tricalcium phosphate
• xanthan gum
• xylitol
• zinc oxide

Basically, if you could not find an ingredient in nature or make it at home, it should not be in your protein powder.

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Drink Wholesome Is the Best Keto Protein Powder

Finding a keto-friendly protein powder free from food additives and protein concentrates and isolates is hard.

In fact, 99% of protein supplements contain one or more of these problematic ingredients, which is why we created Drink Wholesome.

We make the best protein powder for the keto diet because we use a short list of simple ingredients.

Our Ingredients

egg whites

coconut

vanilla

monk fruit

NOT Our Ingredients

• acacia gum

• acesulfame potassium

• artificial flavors

• carrageenan

• erythritol

• guar gum

• inulin

• maltodextrin

• 'natural' flavors

• silica

• soy lecithin

• sucralose

• xanthan gum

• xylitol

Note that instead of using protein concentrates or isolates, we only use whole food protein sources like egg whites, which are easier to digest and absorb.

It follows that our customers experience fewer digestive issues with our Protein Powder than with any other type of protein supplement.

Order samples to see for yourself.

In case you were wondering, all of our Collagen or Egg White Protein Powders have fewer than three grams of net carbs per serving.

Our Unflavored Collagen Protein Powder is actually carb-free, which would make it an excellent addition to the keto diet.