Xcore Nutrition 100% Whey Hydro Isolate Supplement Review
[box type=?info? align=?aligncenter? ]Note. This review refers to the original version of Xcore Nutrition's Whey Hydro Isolate, not the new version, called the Sport Series. You can find the analysis for the new version here.
This is the introduction of Xcore Nutrition on its official website to the 100% Whey Hydro Isolate supplement, supposedly the best protein supplement that money can buy.
?If you don't settle for anything but the best, if the protein supplement you're looking for must be above any other protein supplement on the market, if you want the best whey supplement money can buy, here it is: 100% Whey Hydro Isolate!?*
?No other protein supplement can give you the same results in terms of muscle growth and recovery. In fact, the main competitors don't even come close!?*
After these two excerpts, it is clear that Xcore Nutrition wants to position 100% Whey Hydro Isolate as a top supplement.
Is it really a top protein?
Let's start the analysis, forgetting about marketing a little and analyzing the facts, because those are the ones that matter.
100% Whey Hydro Isolate is available in two sizes ? 907g and 2000g.
In addition to the sizes, we have 5 flavors available: Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, wafer / cream and banana.
Ingredients
The list of ingredients in this supplement is as follows:
Confused. This list of ingredients is undoubtedly confusing.
Let's translate this list of ingredients into human language.
Each scoop of this supplement has 28g. Of these 28g, 27g are ?iXPB Peptides Fusion?. The rest refers to the other ingredients (flavouring, coloring, etc.)
And what is this ?iXPB Peptides Fusion??
Basically, it's a blend of isolated, concentrated and hydrolyzed whey protein with an addition of BCAA's, L-Glycine and L-Glutamine.
Nutritional value
| 28g | 100g | |
| Proteins | 23g | 82.14g |
| Carbohydrates | 1.1g | 3.93g |
| Fats | 0.9g | 3.21g |
These are the nutritional values of this supplement in the strawberry version.
We have in the first column the reference values for a dose / scoop and then the numbers for each 100g of product.
The 100% Whey Hydro Isolate contains a protein content of 82,14%.
??The main competitors don't even come close!?
ON's Whey contains 81,63% of protein content.
Prozis 100% Whey Concentrate contains 82%.
Both the ON Gold Standard, such as Prozis Whey Concentrate, have a difference of less than 1% in relation to 100% Whey Hydro Isolate.
It seems that the competitors even come close, since the protein content is practically the same.
Regarding the levels of carbohydrates and fats, we can say that they are good compared to the average, but it is not enough for a great highlight.
If the analysis were to stop there, this would undoubtedly be a good supplement, but the rest is missing.
Aminogram
We have already seen that the protein content of this supplement is good, it remains to be seen, is this protein content of quality?
The Xcore supplement asserts itself as a hydrolyzed / isolated whey, so one would expect the aminogram to be at least slightly higher compared to a purely concentrated whey.
When we looked at the aminogram of the 100% Whey Hydro Isolate, we noticed that something strange was going on, and as such, we placed it side by side with the Myprotein Impact Whey, it is also in the strawberry version.
What's weird?
The 100% Whey Hydro Isolate despite having a higher protein content (82,21% vs 78,63%) compared to the Impact Whey of strawberry, only has a higher concentration of amino acids in only two of them, and neither is even essential.
This supplement, although it has BCAA's added to those already present in whey protein, contains less BCAA's than an exclusively concentrated whey, without adding extra BCAA's.
Whey Hydro Isolate ? Total BCAA's/100g = 17.48g
Impact Whey Strawberry ? Total BCAA's/100g = 18.01g
Why does this happen?
How does 100% Whey Hydro Isolate with a higher protein content, lose practically all amino acids to Impact Whey?
Glycine.
Glycine is a non-essential amino acid, used by supplement brands to increase the protein content of their products cheaply, thus allowing to use less whey protein (more expensive) but keeping protein numbers high (and lower costs).
If we look at the brand's advertising on its official website, we see that it highlights the addition of BCAA's and Glutamine in its formula, however, we did not find any reference to the addition of Glycine in its advertising.
I wonder why?
If Xcore Nutrition did not add L-Glycine to this supplement, it would probably have a protein content of around 70% **. That is, it would consist of only about 70% ** of protein.
Another interesting fact, if we count the amount of L-Glycine that was added to this product, the value reaches almost 250g of extra glycine for every 2000g of product! **
?If you want the best whey supplement that money can buy, here it is: 100% Whey Hydro Isolate!?
Whoops?
Price
Finally, here is an analysis of the average price of the 100% Whey Hydro Isolate.
907g | 2000g | |
Doses | 32 | 71 |
Cost Per Serving | 0.93 ? | 0.73 ? |
Cost 100g / protein * | 4.02 ? | 3.16 ? |
Total cost | 29.99 ? | 51.99 ? |
* The cost per 100g of protein refers to the cost per 100g of real protein, while the cost per dose refers to the cost per scoop which in this case is 28g and brings 23g of protein, the cost per 100g of protein is the cost per 100g of pure protein.
Each shake costs 0.93? in the small format (907g) and 0.73? in the largest (2000g).
In other words, it has a price similar to Optimum Nutrition's Gold Standard and a value much higher than Myprotein's Impact Whey, both superior to Xcore Nutrition's product.
Is expensive? It's cheap?
It depends.
If we compare to MusclePharm's Iron Whey it's cheap.
If we compare it to some of the good protein supplements that we’ve reviewed here, like the Prozis 100% Whey Concentrate, a Myprotein Impact Whey or even to 100% Gold Standard from Optimum Nutrition it is expensive for what it offers.
Where to buy?
You find this supplement available hereand you can still use the code GVIRTUAL to get 10% discount.
Conclusion
When we read a brand declaring that its product is the best on the market, and that the competition is not even close, we expect quality.
This is not the case with the 100% Whey Hydro Isolate.
This supplement with ?ISOLATE? in giant letters on its packaging is not even superior to a concentrated protein supplement.
As positive points we can highlight the low values of carbohydrates and fats, and the addition of BCAA's ends up preventing this supplement from becoming a Whey Prime.
It is a mediocre supplement of whey protein, which tries to sell through marketing and not the quality of it, not being the worst in the category, but also being very far from the first places.
* translation of the official website
** A whey supplement has an average of 1-1.5g of glycine, so if this product had 1.14 of glycine, the protein value would be 70.21g.
*** Rounded figures.
This aminogram does not correspond to any Xcore isolate or hydrolyzate that is for sale at Prozis. Confirm the source of your sources, to avoid misunderstandings.
Who is doing Marketing here is not Xcore.
This review refers to the original version of this supplement, but after taking a look, a new version, Sport Series, recently came out, which is really different from the original.
A note was added at the beginning of the article to avoid misunderstandings until an analysis is created for the new version, thanks in any case for the repair.
I thought it was strange that Xcore's Hydro Isolate Aminogram was the one? since I care a lot about the aminogram, macronutrients, digestive enzymes, vitamins, sugar substitutes, amino spiking, etc.
But even so, it is hard for me to believe that there is no mistake in placing the nutritional information that you had access to.
Greetings and thanks for the respect, education and attention on your part, for my derogatory comment on your article.
He showed only humility and good faith on your part.
But look again at the product. I think they will change their minds.