HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence 5 in 1 Protein Shake

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I was very excited to try this as I love a lot of other products from Gloriously Vegan! The quality is excellent, not gritty and no funny taste other than it’s a little on the sweet side for me. I have found that I can enjoy all of its benefits by tempering the sweetness with additional unsweetened peanut powder and fresh spinach, both of which only boost the nutritional benefits in my opinion. I blend it in my high powered blender. It mixed well into my almond milk. I definitely like the 22 grams of protein per serving! The ingredients are top notch and I can feel the benefits to my overall health. I’d recommend this if you don’t mind sweeter tasting things and want a quality protein drink.

At a glance, I was really hoping for a lot from this shake powder. The nutrition seems fantastic - and the healthy ingredient list and all had me expecting probably too much, because unfortunately, it really falls short in taste, texture, and ease when it comes to mixing. No matter what, I have to put this in a blender, or it never does break down and incorporate in a liquid - it clumps, kinda like pancake batter or something, and has little bits that stay gritty and stick to everything, and it just unpleasant. The taste is okay, really, but not great, and the texture is a bit of a turn-off. If it were a fraction of the price, I could accept that - but this is entirely too expensive for that. It should be perfect, seeing as I can go to a store and get a better shake that's already made and tastes better and not have to deal with the hassle that making this one presents. So a star off each for taste, texture, and poor value - sorry, can't recommend this at all, except for the nutrition content. Disappointing.

So, this HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake is essentially a high end plant based protein powder. Tastes good and mixes well with plain water and with a consistency that's thicker than whey but no where near as much as casein powder. Still, a little goes a long way. It has a nice subtle chocolate-malt-like flavor. Not overly sweet, but natural and without an artificial after taste. It mixes perfectly with just plain water but can also be mixed with fruit,crushed ice, and turned in to a delicious pudding like protein desert. The only negative thing I can say about the this plant based protein is the price, which is a little steep for me. The ingredients are excellent, high end, and may well be worth it for someone on a primarily plant based diet.

The chocolate flavor is decent considering this uses pea protein. There is a noticeable aftertaste, but it still tastes good enough that I can drink it without a problem. I do not like the packaging. Most protein powders come in a rigid tub that is easy to open, scoop from, and close again. This comes in a pouch, which is more awkward to manage and easier to make a mess with when scooping out the powder. The biggest problem is the value. I thought the formula sounded interesting and wanted to try something different, but this is by far the most expensive protein powder I have used. At around $80 for only 15 servings, it costs more than $5 per shake. The taste is acceptable and the added ingredients may appeal to some people, but I cannot justify paying this much for such a small number of servings.

Five ingredients, five actual mechanisms —not five marketing bullet points dressed up in Latin binomials. That alone puts Glorious Daily's HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake ahead of most of what passes through the protein powder aisle. Breakfast is the meal biology treats as sacrosanct and modern life treats as disposable. Most people miss it entirely, in the ordinary rush of getting out the door, coffee in one hand and nothing in the other. Business culture, meanwhile, already treats lunch as the meal to shove through fastest, and what gets shoved through tends to be carb and fat heavy —sandwiches, fast food, whatever survives a desk and a deadline. Dinner is no better —it is the meal that gets enjoyed and reinforced, the meal that turns fat and carb heavy precisely because it arrives after a whole day of being in a hurry. The fix is not substituting a shake for dinner —though Glorious Daily's HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake is a solid post workout shake in its own right— so much as it is drinking some shake early enough to quell the desperation, and then preparing a meal composed of carefully selected ingredients and prepared in a more relaxed manner. A meal for the pleasure of cooking as art —an expression of love— rather than a meal to quash the desperation of unbridled hunger. Cortisol is a glucocorticoid corticosteroid, and the elevation in the first waking hour isn't the body handing you a gift, it's the body registering the overnight fast as a problem —a disaster really— and rousing you to go fix it. Glucocorticoids are diabetogenic by design —they upregulate hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) and glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) to force glucose output from the liver, and downstream in muscle and fat they blunt insulin signaling itself, impairing glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) translocation. Cortisol working against insulin at the receptor level is not a subtlety, it is the headline. Invariably, the morning misery continues, with only the saving grace of caffeine —which answers none of it, just switches off the alarm without ever addressing what set it ringing. Muscle insulin sensitivity, specifically, is measurably higher in the morning than the evening, driven by clock machinery in the muscle tissue itself —a real biological answer sitting right there for the taking, while most people reach for coffee instead. Adipose tissue runs the opposite calendar: subcutaneous fat's own insulin sensitivity peaks around noon, and insulin's job in a fat cell is not building muscle, it is locking calories into storage —which is precisely the combination a lunch heavy in carbs and fat is best built to hand it. The body, unhelpfully, has chosen that exact hour to be at its most efficient at turning it into fat. By evening, general insulin sensitivity is on its daily decline —the same test meal produces a larger glucose excursion at 8pm than at 8am— so dinner lands on a body already carrying the metabolic debt of a skipped breakfast and a mishandled lunch, at the one hour of the day least equipped to absorb the day's largest meal. Stated plainly: the body's clock genes allocate metabolic competence across the day in a specific order —muscle first, fat-storage capacity at midday, decline by evening— and business culture, through nothing more sinister than scheduling convenience, has arranged meal size and composition in almost the exact inverse of that order. Smallest or skipped when the body wants it most, heaviest and least controlled when the body can least afford it. I don't skip breakfast myself. I reach for a shake precisely because the body needs the nutrients whether or not appetite shows up to ask for them, never mind being in a hurry —and that is the case for this shake in one sentence: it solves the hurry for the person running out the door, and it solves the appetite for the person who is not hungry but still has a body that needs feeding. The 22g of pea protein isolate is the reason this shake works as a rescue rather than an excuse. Pea's limiting amino acid is methionine —cysteine's sulfur-bearing cousin— which matters a great deal if pea is your only protein source and matters not at all if, like me, you're already running methylation support elsewhere. The key problem is making enough glutathione which is the body's premier non-enzymatic antioxidant and rate limited by the amount of cysteine. You can make cysteine from methionine but you need methionine elsewhere as well. Leucine content still clears the roughly 2.5-3g threshold needed to kick off muscle protein synthesis at this serving size, so the anabolic case holds regardless of the sulfur amino acid question. That makes Glorious Daily's HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake a solid post workout shake as well. The oat fiber is the ingredient I actually bought this for. I get plenty of total fiber; I get almost none of it from oats specifically, and oat beta-glucan is one of the better-replicated fiber stories in the literature —not a hand-waved fiber is good for you claim but a specific viscosity mechanism. Beta-glucan thickens the gut lumen enough to disrupt bile acid micelle formation, which forces the liver to pull cholesterol out of circulation to manufacture replacement bile acids, upregulating LDL receptor expression in the process. Same viscosity blunts postprandial glucose by slowing gastric emptying. The caveat: 7.5g of Nutrim oat fiber blend is not 7.5g of beta-glucan. Nutrim typically runs 6-10% beta-glucan by weight, which puts the actual active dose closer to half a gram to a gram —short of the FDA's 3g/day threshold for the cholesterol-lowering claim on its own. It's a real contribution to an oat-poor diet, not a clinical dose in a bag. On the other hand, between pre and post workout and breakfast, I am covered so I am not worried either way. The Ahiflower oil is the ingredient reviewers will misread as just more omega-3, and it isn't. Ahiflower's distinguishing feature is stearidonic acid, which sits one desaturation step past ALA —specifically past the rate-limiting delta-6-desaturase bottleneck that keeps ordinary flax-derived ALA from ever becoming much EPA in most people. Supplying SDA directly is a genuine end-run around that bottleneck. What it does not do is solve DHA conversion, which requires an entirely separate downstream pathway. Call this what it is: a well-designed EPA precursor, not a brain-omega strategy. Still, the need for EPA in most people's diet is nearly absolute —that is, they aren't getting nearly enough of this omega-3— and EPA can be converted to DHA, bound to choline and taken up by the brain. CoQ10 at 100mg and cocoa flavanols at 200mg round out the formula at doses that actually sit inside published clinical trial ranges, rather than the token milligram amounts many supplements use just to get an ingredient listed on the label without it doing anything physiologically. A real dose that says something about the people making this protein shake: they want it to work, not just sell. Taste: there is a kind of oaty flavor in the background, which makes sense given the oat fiber content. The chocolate flavor itself is complex in the sense that it isn't just dark or just milk or just cocoa or just Nestle Quick or just Hershey syrup, but it is also mild and inoffensive, so that one looking to this shake for a chocolate fix as a way to avoid the Hershey bar —just in the sense of chocolatiness, in the caloric sense, this shake will rock— will not find it here. Still, when mixed with milk, particularly whole, high protein milk, this protein powder makes for a rich and satisfying shake that provides long term satiety and makes a great breakfast. Mixability: I have mixed it with a frother and you can, it just takes a bit of time because it comes out better with a little powder at a time. I have mixed it with a hand blender and the shake mixes better if you do not put all the powder you intend to mix into the milk all at once. Mostly, the problem is that the powder that settles on top of the hand mixer's blade guard tends to clump heavily because of the shell that forms from the milk exposure that is sufficient to wet but insufficient to dissolve. None of these problems are unique to Glorious Daily's HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake and generally happen with any powder. With a standard blender, the shake comes out rich and creamy —the cleanup is entirely dependent on the blender, the shake blends really well. I have even used the kind of blender that a person at a coffee shop might use, and the only problem there is that one has to watch how long one blends the shake for because those blenders tend to make anything one blends hot. If that is what one intends, there is no problem; however, if the intent is to make something like hot cocoa but super nutritious, then the advice that I would give is blend less at any one time and heat. That is, blend the milk to warm it up, put in some powder, blend to heat, and so on —do not be surprised if it makes you sleepy. It mixes far better and easier than Gainer's Fuel ever did —that one wasn't bad, exactly, but you could always tell you were drinking powder that had been talked into becoming a shake. The HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake doesn't give itself away like that: it comes out smooth, with a good mouthfeel, the beta-glucans earning their keep twice over —once in the glass for the mouthfeel, and again in the gut for the bile salts and cholesterol benefits. Bottom line, Glorious Daily's HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence Protein Shake is a well-constructed, mechanistically honest breakfast for someone who is otherwise going to eat nothing, or eat oats not at all —which, sadly, describes most of the country before 9am. Just a thought but good nutrition in the morning may well make everyone safer during their morning commute. In the evening, the difference might be even greater. Tempers flaring in the face of desperation and frustration, the drive home on an empty stomach might be more dangerous still.

I was genuinely surprised by how thick this protein shake turned out. I mixed it with water, expecting the usual thin consistency, but it was rich and creamy instead. One of my biggest complaints about most protein powders is that they become watery when mixed with water. Since I'm trying to cut calories, I don't want to use milk, and many shakes end up tasting like chocolate-flavored water. This one is different. I'm actually using about twice the recommended amount of water, and it still has a thick, satisfying texture. The flavor holds up well, and it feels much more like a real shake than most protein powders I've tried. I also noticed the energy boost I typically get from a good protein shake, and at 210 calories per serving, it fits comfortably within my daily calorie goals. If you've been hesitant because of the price, I'd recommend giving it a try. The quality and taste may just make it something you look forward to every day.

I want to rate this better. To be very honest out of the gate. I typically do not like the taste of protein powders. This stuff tastes fantastic. It is certainly the strongest point of the product. The protein content is okay. There are better products available out there. But if you're someone that tastes really matters for then this might be for you. I have two glaring problems with the actual product though. The first is the baggie packaging. Given the cost of this product, the packaging is rather cheap. Would this being a very fine powder, scooping it out of a bag can be a bit of a messy task. It also means that the scoop that's included was all the way in the bottom of the bag because it's settled and moved. At this level. A canister would have been much better and easier to manage. That's why all the major brands use them even though production wise they cost more. And cost per serving becomes the second factor. At this rate I can save the mixing and go buy some pre-made protein shakes at my local convenience store for the same cost per serving. This saves me nothing. The idea of making protein shakes at home is partially a cost cutting measure like any other product. I see other potential uses in this for baking and what not, but I have not tried that. It yields potential there though. I could see this making some interesting and tasty little products.

The GLORIOUS DAILY HeartGlow Chocolate Indulgence is pricy. The flavor is chocolate. It is 16 ounces. It has 22 grams of organic pea protein and 7 grams of fiber at only 210 calories. It is ready in 60 Seconds. Now that’s a real plus for those busy mornings. Each serving delivers more protein than 3 eggs and more fiber than a bowl of oatmeal. It Keeps a person full and focused all morning long. All that needs to be done is pour, add two scoops and stir. It can replace breakfast entirely. It contains five heart-supporting nutrients that the body actually needs. It delivers five separate bottles every month. HeartGlow gives you everything in one shake: 100mg CoQ10 for cellular energy, 2,500mg Ahiflower oil for omega 3, 6 & 9 to support a healthy inflammatory response, 7.5g Nutrim oat beta-glucans, 200mg+ cocoa flavanols for vessel flexibility, 22g organic pea protein for muscle strength. It tastes like chocolate milk. It is sweetened naturally with allulose, monk fruit, and a touch of stevia. There is zero bitter aftertaste. HeartGlow is made with carefully selected, premium ingredients. This creates a smooth, satisfying, healthy, chocolate shake that fits easily into the morning routine. It is pricey, but worth it!