Coffee with whey protein ok?

Damico1971
Damico1971 Posts: 14 Member
edited December 3 in Health and Weight Loss
The directions say to mix with 150ml of water or other liquids. Does it lose it's nutritional value by mixing it with coffee & a bit of milk???

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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Do a little research to find if the whey protein can survive the hot coffee.
  • Kev_Lifts
    Kev_Lifts Posts: 18 Member
    You're overthinking it. If it taste good, do it.
  • LazSommer
    LazSommer Posts: 1,851 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Do a little research to find if the whey protein can survive the hot coffee.

    It does.
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    Yes, it's fine. 1 cup of water through the aeropress to make espresso; 1 cup of milk and 1 scoop of unflavored whey, shaken in a blender cup with a few drops of vanilla extract and spoonful of sugar makes a passable latte, the whey makes it foamy. A little sticky but tastes good.

    Whey is just part of milk so it does work fine in coffee.
  • arose1122
    arose1122 Posts: 167 Member
    Yup. I sometimes have my coffee with a scoop of whey, collagen and cocoa powder. It's pretty good like that. If you mix it well it will foam up like a latte.
  • punkrockgoth
    punkrockgoth Posts: 534 Member
    If you just mix it with a spoon, you may find it gets clumpy in hot liquids. No idea why this happens. However, if you shake it, it works fine.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    punkrockgoth wrote: »
    If you just mix it with a spoon, you may find it gets clumpy in hot liquids. No idea why this happens. However, if you shake it, it works fine.

    This. I've also used cold water to make a slurry and then added hot liquid (I have a protein powder that tastes like mint cocoa, so I just use hot water).
  • Shadowmf023
    Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
    Yes you can. I often add hot water to mine in winter. You might want to make a slurry first, because the whey clumps up if you mix it with hot liquid. Or I just blended mine. Makes it nice and frothy to boot!
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    I tried it once and it was the grossest thing ever. It wouldn't mix in properly. So it was chunky and weird.
  • MommyMeggo
    MommyMeggo Posts: 1,222 Member
    Ive put my vanilla whey in with my hot coffee. Its fine. Depends on the protein. I drink it fast so i dont savor the flavor, per se.
    I use it in my shaker with the ball tho- so its never clumpy.

    However its really good cold - like an iced cream coffee, protein shake. Make some coffee the night before and stick it in the fridge!
  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    I've been drinking my cold brew coffee concentrate over ice with the Premier Protein vanilla shakes from Costco, YUM!
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    punkrockgoth wrote: »
    If you just mix it with a spoon, you may find it gets clumpy in hot liquids. No idea why this happens. However, if you shake it, it works fine.

    It's because it's cooking. Protein fibers shrink when heated - think of an egg.

    This does NOT affect the nutrition but lumpy coffee is disconcerting.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Do a little research to find if the whey protein can survive the hot coffee.

    Whey survives hot coffee just as well as the protein in chicken survives a hot grill.
  • Damico1971
    Damico1971 Posts: 14 Member
    edited August 2016
    These posts are very helpful and I'm glad that I can do it because my whey protein with coffee mixed with a blender tastes so good like a Starbucks frapaccino OMG
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