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Nutrimuscle discusses with you the lie related to beef protein powder. What is beef protein? Why is beef protein rich in creatine? We tell you everything.
What Beef Protein Brings to Mind
When consumers hear about beef protein, they automatically think of meat, which means muscle. And what's more effective for building muscle than muscle itself?
Marketing uses and even abuses this imaginary. Unfortunately, in real life, words have a meaning!
What is suggested but not said
In order to stimulate the consumer's imagination, sellers will play on words.
If the consumer perceives beef protein as coming directly from the muscle and therefore being the equivalent of a good steak, this will promote sales.
Unfortunately, the reality is quite different.
What is beef protein?
If you remove the fat and bones from a beef, all that remains is the protein. From there, butchers will sell the most noble materials: the muscles. Fast food restaurants will then use the parts that the butchers do not want. What remains is viscera or other. It is this waste that is used to make most beef proteins .
Indeed, you will notice that in the list of ingredients of beef proteins, the terms " meat" or "muscles" do not appear. Is this a coincidence or a simple oversight? No, it is simply because there are none! You are dealing with a poor quality protein, because it is not very anabolic for the muscles.
Be careful with the term meat
If we look at the definition of the term meat, we see that it does not necessarily mean muscle: "meat is the set of foods derived from animals. It is mainly composed of muscle tissue, as well as tripe and offal. "
Although most beef protein sellers don't use it, they might say that their protein comes from meat, which doesn't mean it necessarily contains a single gram of muscle.
Be careful with the term muscle
Likewise, one should be wary of the term muscle, because there are two different types: striated muscle (the one that athletes try to develop) and smooth muscle (viscera).
For beef protein to actually come from the right muscles (just like a steak), it would have to be specified that the protein is 100% from striated muscles and not just muscles (because then, it would essentially be intestines). This is a clear statement, which never appears in the list of ingredients for beef proteins. And for good reason, there aren't any!
Why is beef protein rich in creatine?
Again, the promotion of a protein rich in creatine contributes to the deception. Everyone knows that beef muscle is very rich in creatine. So, a beef protein must naturally be rich in creatine.
The answer is still found in the analysis of the list of ingredients : very often, creatine monohydrate is included. So why add external creatine if the protein is already naturally rich in creatine? Quite simply, because without external additions, beef protein would contain practically no creatine, since it does not come from the muscle. This detail would alert some consumers.
While there is creatine in muscle, there is no creatine monohydrate in meat . Creatine monohydrate is a synthetic form of creatine that is very easily assimilated. However, during digestion, creatine will simply dissociate to transform into phosphocreatine in the muscle. It is in this form that creatine is stored to be used as fuel during intense efforts.
Bottom line : The presence of creatine monohydrate in the ingredient list of a beef protein indicates that you are not dealing with a muscle protein .
Why is beef protein rich in BCAAs?
If beef protein is so poor for building muscle, how come it is so high in BCAAs ? The answer lies in the analysis of the ingredient list : if BCAAs are listed, they have been added to the protein .
If merchants need to add BCAAs to rebalance the amino acid profile of the product, it is to mask the fact that the protein does not come from muscle, because muscles are naturally rich in BCAAs.
Why is beef protein rich in iron?
Some merchants highlight the high level of iron in their protein. Indeed, in muscle, there is a lot of iron! Here again, you have to carefully analyze the list of ingredients of the product : we find lactoferrin to inflate the iron levels. However, lactoferrin comes from milk and not from muscle . It was therefore added for the sole purpose of suggesting that beef protein actually comes from muscle.
However, the vast majority of beef proteins do not list iron on their ingredient lists , simply because there is none or too little to be included. The clue is clear: no iron means no muscle in the protein.
Read the labels
Everything in the ingredient list has been added from outside and is therefore not naturally contained in beef protein.
If sellers need to add it, it is because it was missing to make consumers believe that they have the equivalent of a steak in front of them!
Beware of random French translations
Some translations of English supplement labels are very poorly done and invent ingredients that are not in the original products . So you should be wary of them. Base your decision only on the English ingredients if you don't want to be fooled.
If you want to laugh, you can even compare the original ingredients and the supposed ones once the French translation is done. You will then discover the high esteem and rigor that these merchants have for you.
Beef Protein Powder: Conclusion
It is up to the consumer to appreciate all these molecular ploys and marketing word games that only aim to deceive him.
Nutrimuscle Choice: Transparency comes first . No beef protein.
