skelooth

Since I first received a sample pack of three flavors of whey and some cookie mix I can't help but be awe struck by this companies products. They do what their name implies and have made innovations to some of the most tried and true things... mostly protein. To make matters best the price is rock bottom low.

I bought one of the sample packs of every flavor of whey along with a pound of cookie dough mix. Here's my review.

Price: Amazing. The huge sample pack, a pound of cookie mix, and shipping was 28 bucks. They sell 15lbs of whey for under 65 bucks, you can take a wild guess who's going to be supplying my protein from now on.

Shipping: Not the best. Took a long time for my order to arrive. Close to two weeks. No tracking number was provided, and the ship confirmation was more confusing than anything. However the package did arrive in good condition.

Mixability of whey concentrate: Second to none. It almost mixes it's self. They whey is so fine that it looks like very fine powder. Certain flavors have a tendency to form little clumps, but even the little clumps are very small, tender, and few.

Cookie Mix: Addictive like crack. It's easy to eat yourself into a calorie surplus in the blink of an eye because you can't stop at just one. Even the powdered mix it's self is delicious. The fact that each cookie has 10g of high quality protein is pure insanity. Their only draw back is that they are TOO GOOD. I'm really hoping they'll offer other varieties of cookies one day.

Product Quality: Anabolic Innovations is one of the few companies who makes their lab reports and quality assurance not just available, but linked right from the product description.

Flavors: In general ALL flavors are very light. At first I was really dissappointed because I'm used to using over powering whey proteins like ON gold standard. You get accustomed and actually appreciate it after a while. The flavor and texture of the shakes is more in tune with "a light refreshing summer beverage" than a "thick sweet milk shake". Again it's a little different at first, but gets addictive. Think iced tea as opposed to milk shake.

Chocolate: Very weak and light chocolate flavor. Goes well mixed with their other flavors though.

Mint Chocolate Chip: Very weak and light, barely tasted any mint if any.

Raspberry: Much more potent than the chocolate flavors, nice rasberry flavor. Still not strong enough to do something like flavor your oatmeal though.

Mango: Yuck Light mango flavor, I'm not a fan of mango

Strawberry: Not quite as potent as the rasberry, still more potent than the chocolate. More suitabley "hint of strawberry"

Mocha: I was dissappointed as this flavor was moderately flavorless

Vanilla: One of the better vanilla flavors I've tasted in whey! Possibley strong enough to flavor your oats in the morning, and mixes VERY well with the other flavors

Peanut Butter: That's it, I'm hooked. At first I wasn't a fan because the flavor was so 'light', but then after a few shakes you start to realize "hey this is pretty damn good". Mix it with the vanilla and you're in business... add some dextrose and I'd prefer it over donuts.

Banana: The most potent of the flavors. Very bananery if we pretend it's a word. King Kong would go apes for this stuff. This is another flavor that goes amazing with the vanilla.

The Elvis (peanut butter and banana): Very tasty. Still a little light like all of the other flavors, but it's an extremely nice change of pace for conventional flavoring with the added bonus of not being over powering.

Plain Jane: Very good for cooking with. I like to dabble in the kitchen making bodybuilding food treats, and this makes it easy to add protein to recipes without altering the flavor.

Flavors I missed: They probably didn't make a big impression on me. As all of the flavors are very light.

Conclusion 8 of 10. The flavors were just too weak to warrant a 10. The cookie mix by it's self would be a 10 out of 10 though. Amazing stuff.

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CROWLER

Thank you very much for taking the time to post all this.

VERY nice! This is how we continue to improve and give our customers what they ask for.

10 out of 10 on the cookies can't ask for anymore than that, we LOVE IT!

Whey protein powders 8 out of 10 because the flavoring is a little on the weak side. I have GREAT news since your order was shipped out we have heard the customers and they want more flavor so ALL have been increased by a FULL 25%, and the new reviews have been GREAT!


2 weeks for shipping, if you say so but I would LOVE to track that package because I have never heard of any package taking that long. If you like PM me with your name or email me and I will check into it.

You also meantioned the shipping confirmation was confussing and we have that fixed too!

We now use UPS with a full trakcing number or USPS with Delivery Confimation on ALL packages.

We just started with daily pickup with UPS and USPS a couple of days ago.

We are happy to announce that 99% of orders now sent out within a day of order placement. Of course if we are completely out of stock on something, which happnes VERY rarely then it is a couple days but we let you know.

So all in all the things you loved we have kept the same, the things you rightly said need improvement have been improved.

Thanks again.


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CROWLER

Hey Skelooth,

I just did a little huting and figured out which order was yours.

You said it took 2 weeks to get to you, your order was placed on Sunday July 2nd, and shipped out just 2 business days later.

We try to but can't control how long it takes the shipping company to deliver the package to you.

Don't forget that July 4th was a holiday so it took us just 2 business days to ship it out, don't know how we can get much faster than that.

BTW you SURE it took 2 weeks, you have tried 14 flavors and you posted today and it STILL hasn't even been 2 weeks since you ordered, are you changing the stream of time agian lol

EDIT I just tracked the package and it was delivered 6 business days after the order was placed and the tracking number was emailed to you directly from UPS. Maybe it ended up in your bulk or SPAM folder but I have a copy from UPS of the email.


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skelooth

Order was placed July 2nd, and I did not receive it until July 11th or 12th, 9 or 10 days. When I got back from my out of town vacation I was actually somewhat worried there was something wrong with the order. I needed to run out and buy bodyfortress whey protein from walmart to hold me over in the mean time.

Whether it was the shipper or not I don't know. I can only call it as I see it. Most other online retailers have a package at my door in 4 days on average.

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CROWLER

Thank you for clarifying. In your first post you stated it took almost 2 weeks but as you say above it actually took 9 days. And out of that 4 of them were either a holiday or a Saturday or a Sunday.

So again 2 business days from order placement to when it was sent out by us.

BTW good news we are moving operations to about 100 miles from your house so I can GUARANTEE delivery in a couple of days

Maybe I will actually deliver your stuff myself.

Heck one guy got his package 7 hours after ordering NO joke, I can link to the thread.


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skelooth

If I ever recieved a package 7 hours after ordering something online, I think I'd drop on the floor in convulsions lol.

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will175

Are you guys at AI still offering this deal I would love to order the same deal as posted on here, thanks.

skelooth

Just want to point out that this review is old and the flavoring is five million times better now.

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Peaked_18

How about the shipping?

Jayhawkk

Shipping is great but he has teamed up with a couple of places that have excellent shipping history.

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will175

Yah I heard everything got better but I still want to order the same package you got skelooth. Thanks.

StxNas

That's the truth guys. That person was me. I put my order in mid morning and it was sitting on my front porch when I got home a little after five (I remember it vividly b/c I was very excited to try the PB whey, lol). I have been so impressed with AI's stuff that I have been plugging them every chance that I get. Crowler took notice of this and recently asked me to join his team. There's nothing better than believing in and enjoying what you do!
And FWIIW, I put in an order yesterday, immediately received an email confirming that my order was received, and then received another email 18 minutes later stating that it had shipped.