NutraBio BCAA 5000 Powder - Fermented Branched Chain Amino Acids for Muscle Growth & Recovery - Natural Flavors, Sweeteners, and Coloring, Vegan, Gluten Free - Unflavored, 60 Servings

This stuff is awesome. Non-GMO no fillers nor additives. Essentially no un-needed crap. As advertised and mirrored in the other reviews the taste is BAAAAAD! Real bad! If you're not using at minimum a blender shaker bottle or an actual blender then you are doing yourself a great disservice. It will not mix. Go ahead and stir it until you dislocate your shoulder. It will still sit atop the water in your glass in clumps mocking your efforts. It has the feel and consistency of cocaine. No density whatsoever. I have found that mixing it in a blender bottle with V8 helps significantly. Masks the taste but the after taste slowly turns bad. Just have something else handy to chase it down with. That said I've been using this for several days and workouts and it is far and away the best BCAA supplement I've ever used. Great results coupled with it's purity make it my BCAA of choice going forward.

I dont know why other people are saying about "fart in the bag" regarding this product. This is as good as it gets as far as BCAAs. First of all, I am not willing to eat detivatives of duck feathers and this product being out of plant sources solves that problem. Secondly, there is really NO smell to it, it kind of smells like raw mushrooms. Thirdly, I am not interested in extra crap like sugar additives, synteric flavorings or colors, and this unflavored version is just that - no any other things. It actually diassolves pretty good in water, yes, by itself it tastes slightly bitter, best way is to mix it is with water and scoop of one of those "superfoods" green powders, we love Amazing grass brand (super clean product with no heavy metals, etc) in berry flavor. Also, bottle with wheel (instead of ball) works th best. I shake it for about 10 sec, let it stand for few and then shake it again (consider this part of your arm workout warm up, lol). Definetly noticed less soreness and more lean muscle. Great product, Love it.

Does not mix well and tastes really bad. I use an immersion blender and even after 20 seconds of high speed blending the product is not mixed adequately. Most of the time I just give up and shoot it down quickly and just deal with the clumps. The taste is pretty terrible so much so that if I add it to a chocolate protein shake it gives it a very unpleasant flavor and by itself it is not very nice. I believe the quality is probably high, which is why I opted for this brand. I'll stick with Nutra-bio when this runs out, but I think I will probably go for one of their flavored varieties.

I really hate to deduct one star on this seemingly fantastic company, but I just can't find a good place for this in most people's supplement program due to the bitter taste. I have become a fan of the purity of nutrabio lately and have been highly recommending it across the board. I initially became a fan of BCAAs in 2010 and had used Xtend by Scivation intra workout since - there was clearly benefit in a delay to exhaustion. But after the proposition 65 warning label suddenly appeared on it, I started thinking of all the additives this unregulated industry uses. Given the recent trend in supplements providing full label disclosure I'm not alone. Here we have pure BCAAs. TASTE: The nutrabio website tells you in bold letters that this tastes bad alone, and they themselves recommend against taking it alone due to the taste of pure aminos. I always mix my BCAAs in Gatorade or preworkout and hoped there would be no significant taste in these instances. In my intraworkout drink 1L of water which contains one scoop of gatorade (21g of carbs worth) and a scoop of BCAA's, no big difference. However, in 15oz of water with my Assault, it corrupts the taste with a definite bitterness. The lesson here is that you need a lot of dilution. If you are going to drink it alone I would recommend their lemon lime which tastes great, and has replaced my Xtend. MIXING: Some reviews talk about clumping, that's true probably since there is nothing added to make it mix easier, but it will definitely dissolve in a standard 1L nalgene type bottle in the same amount of time it used to take me to dissolve Xtend. If you are using a shaker bottle (with a grate) there are no issues at all.

I thought to group my supplement stack under the same brand which led me to switch to this BCCA formulation. Unfortunately for me this supplement didn't work out as planned. 1-It doesn't mix and dissolve in water at all. So, you end up ingesting a slurry rather than a solution. 2-After ingestion; I feel bloated and unwell to the point of wanting to throw up. The discomfort passes but could do without. 3-The unflavored version I'm ingesting is bitter and unpleasant.

1.) Unflavored is for an additive to a recipe, like smoothies. Of course it’s going to be gross in water. There’s. No. Flavor. 2.) Flavored is for water or juice. No it doesn’t mix great, but it does taste great. Blend or shake it and then slam it. It’s a great product.

This is a good, clean product. Bad reviews on here will state that the taste is terrible and that the product doesn’t mix well. The amino acids in this product naturally have a bitter taste, especially leucine. Leucine is also hydrophobic, which is why there will be clumps. If you don’t think you will be able to stomach the taste, opt for a flavored BCAA product. My suggestion would be to squeeze some lemon juice into a tall glass of water, mix it and down it quick.