KOS Organic Plant Based Protein Powder - Delicious Chocolate - Gluten, Dairy & Soy Free Vegan Protein Powder - Ideal For Meal Replacement Shakes For Weight Loss -1.3 Pounds, 15 Servings 1.3 Pound

It is expensive and fairly small amount

This is the best vegan protein powder I've tried-hands down. Whoever has a problem with the texture/chalkiness is probably not mixing it well. I have tried the blueberry muffin, salted caramel, vanilla and strawberries & cream flavors and I have enjoyed all of them. There is a slight fake sugar/stevia taste but to be expected. Mix in a blender bottle, put in a smoothie or add to a baking recipe- it's great. Worth the higher price point and love the ingredients too.

Great taste. I also add frozen bananas and blend in my blender. No stomach issues. Low in sugar and carbs.

Love KOS. So good. Tried multiple flavors, by far the best.

[Edit: having written the following, I woke up the next day feeling super refreshed, strong, hardy. I’m going to keep using this, not thinking of it as chocolate (thinking instead of coconut and cacao), and seeing how it goes. Candidly, if I feel this good on a morning after a workout + powder shake, I’ll probably become a repeat customer. Boggles the mind. Still want to give the person who decided this is “chocolate” a hug.] Just popped this sucker open to see the expected mound of brown powder I knew I was getting when I ordered a chocolate flavored protein powder. It’s vaguely shiny, I thought to myself, removing the scoop full of protein from the jar and plopping it into my shaker bottle. It smelled chemically sweet, like a diet soda or a pixie stick as I shook it - turning the once-clear water into a muddy slurry. Walking out on to the balcony, I was rather pleased with myself, rewarding a night’s workout with chocolate protein shake, healthy but decadent, a calculus of sin. How clever was I? Popping the cap from my shaker, the chemically sweet scent hit my nose again, giving me pause. It’s processed protein with a mess of vitamins in it, there’s going to be a bit of a wonky smell. That happens. It can’t be any worse than Ovaltine, and that’s still tasty. I put the muzzle of the shaker to my lips and let fly the shaken mess upon my tongue. The granules of powder collided with the inside of my mouth, at once grainy and chalky, and the chemical sweetness washed entirely over my palate. “Oh no,” I thought, “it must be half stevia, what have I done?” Not a quitter, I continued to battle the thin but silty solution, willing it to move faster, hiding my tongue from the taste. And then, it stopped. I stood there, darkness in the city outside my balcony, shocked by this flavor. There’s cacao and coconut in this mix, and they reveal themselves in aftertaste. Perhaps if the flavor was called cacao and coconut with a mountain of stevia, I would have been prepared. That, friends and readers, is not what chocolate tastes like. Chocolate, even the truly bitter 100% beast-bars, has a richness and a depth that cannot be masked by chemical sweeteners. It can be enhanced with fat and sugar, blended with fruits and nuts to reveal undertones and complexities that emerge from roasting. Even the inexpensive, mostly low quality waxy chocolates we hand out to children every Halloween have some aspect of this character. Listen, I’ve tasted things that remind me less of the way a wet dog smells, and I’m sure there’s a real flavor underneath the mountain of sweeteners. This is not chocolate flavored. Chocolate does not taste like that. I want to find the chemical engineer who tasted this and said, “this is clearly chocolate” because someone clearly did them an unkindness. Friend, wherever you are, let us know and we will help you experience the full wonder of chocolate. You deserve to live better. Weirdly, I don’t think it tastes bad. Protein powder, at least for me, is always a bit chalky and always has some kind of sweetener to mask the taste of the additives in it. Fine, coool, it tastes like a flintsones chewable vitamin? Let’s go. Just, maybe don’t call that chocolate. Cacao and coconut, sure. But no one should be given to believe chocolate tastes like this.

3 stars because if the great ingredients. But I hate drinking this stuff. I can’t get it to dissolve without foaming like crazy and it still doesn’t dissolve well. It settles back to the bottle if not continuously stirred. I’ve tried it hot and cold, with milk and water. I’m trying to finish this chunky 6th cup and then I’m going to toss the can. The taste isn’t too bad but I can’t get over how poorly it blends.