Muscle Milk-High Protein Shake Mix

by CytoSport

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• ASIN: B0000ABOP5
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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139 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Consumer reports July 2010, June 4, 2010

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H. Uy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muscle Milk-High Protein Shake Mix (Health and Beauty)

I threw mine out after reading this article in consumer reports. It may have been an isolated sample but its not worth the risk IMO

The samples of Muscle Milk Chocolate powder we tested contained all four heavy metals, and levels of three metals in the product were among the highest of all in our tests. Average cadmium levels of 5.6 µg in three daily servings slightly exceeded the USP limit of 5 µg per day, and the average lead level of 13.5 µg also topped the USP limit of 10 µg per day. The average arsenic level of 12.2 µg was approaching the USP limit of 15 µg per day, and the average for mercury was 0.7 µg, well below the USP's 15 µg-per-day limit. Three daily servings of Muscle Milk Vanilla Crème contained 12.2 µg of lead, exceeding lead limits, and 11.2 µg of arsenic. A fourth product, Muscle Milk Nutritional Shake Chocolate (liquid), provided an average of 14.3 µg of arsenic per day from three servings, approaching the proposed USP limit.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tasty, but ONLY if you get the RIGHT FLAVORS!, January 8, 2010

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Andrew Cottrell - See all my reviews
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I've burned through many containers of Muscle Milk powder (only the original, not the Collegiate formula nor the Light formula). I like the results I got from it, but the only things you really need to know are:

1. WHICH FLAVORS TASTE GOOD?
2. WHERE SHOULD I BUY IT?

Here are the flavors I've tried, and how they rate:

Chocolate Milk - Great, my favorite. Do not confuse with "Chocolate" or "Chocolate Malt" (see below).
Chocolate Malt - It's ok. Not as good as I'd hoped, but drinkable.
Chocolate - Not great. Surprisingly, the fake chocolate flavor is just too strong. If you mix it with another flavor it becomes tolerable.
Cookies and Cream - Great, popular flavor, an easy first-time choice
Mocha Joe - Good if you like coffee (which I do), otherwise I expect you'd find it horrid
Strawberries and Cream - Very good, one of my favorites, but I wouldn't want it every day because you're gonna get the strawberry burps
Natural Fresh Strawberry - DO NOT BUY! I can only describe this flavor as like drinking strawberry mixed with fart. Yes, you read that right. Fart. I choked down a container of this only by mixing it in low amounts with other flavors. Since then I've avoided all the "Natural" products out of sheer terror (and disgust).

Where should you buy it:

I recommend The Vitamin Shoppe, 2.47 (or 2.48) lb container, via Amazon of course. The price, combined with shipping, was always lowest or among the lowest whenever I purchased.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cytosport....GET THE LEAD OUT!!!, June 5, 2010

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B. Wilk - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muscle Milk-High Protein Shake Mix (Health and Beauty)

As much as I LOVE this product,the amounts of cadmium and lead in it is just IN-EXCUSABLE! After reading the reply at their home website, the company totally dodged the question of WHY is that junk in there in the first place? As well as what they plan to do about it! Lead is extremely had to eliminate once in the body, yet Cytosport pretty much blows off the issue

After using this product for over three years I am now actively boycotting it and am telling everyone I know not to use it. Hopefully they will get the message....