[Optimum Nutrition] 100 Casein Protein

Optimum Nutrition produce some of the highest quality supplements around, their product range is both extensive and bursting with quality by using the best sourced ingredients.

100% Gold Standard Casein is a great representation of this phenomenal quality that has made Optimum Nutrition the successful sports supplement company it is today! Using pure casein protein to produce this time release protein source makes it the slowest digesting source of protein available. This means the following benefits:

* More stable and consistent blood amino acid levels
* Sustained recovery, not just one quick hit of protein and aminos like whey
* Suppresses appetite helping you feel satiated (fuller) for longer

As Micellar casein and casein proteins are sensitive to pH they can form into a gel inside the acidic environment of our stomachs. This makes the digestion rate slower for the protein potentially taking up to 6 hours to fully digest and broken down into amino acids (the singular compound that forms protein molecules).

The mixability and taste or this ON 100% Casein is superb, Optimum nutrition always ensure their products mix exceptionally well and taste excellent to add the cherry on the top of an outstanding quality product.
 

Sometimes slower is better - especially when it comes to the rate of protein digestion. While rapid protein absorption is desirable immediately before or after exercise, delayed release is probably more beneficial throughout the remainder of the day.

Casein proteins are pH sensitive and gel in the acidic environment of the stomach. As a result, it can take more than twice as long for caseins to be broken-down into their amino acid subcomponents than whey and other proteins. Because of their unique time-released qualities, caseins are aptly described as anti-catabolic or muscle-protecting proteins.