fairlife Nutrition Plan Chocolate Nutrition Shake — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates fairlife Nutrition Plan Chocolate Nutrition Shake by Fairlife ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
Ultrafiltered milk turned into a lab-tuned protein drink: real dairy base, but sweetened by a stack of four sweeteners and held together with cellulose gums and carrageenan.
Why this verdict
- Four separate sweeteners stacked (monk fruit + acesulfame potassium + sucralose + stevia) to fake sweetness without sugar
- Two artificial high-intensity sweeteners (ace-K and sucralose) — the kind linked to gut and craving effects
- Cellulose gel + cellulose gum + carrageenan: three stabilizers doing texture work
- NOVA 4 ultra-processed despite the clean milk base
- Strong on the numbers (30g protein, 2g sugar) but heavily engineered to get there
Ingredients (14)
- filtered lowfat grade a milk (safe) — Ultra-filtered real milk, the base and source of the complete dairy protein.
- Alkalized cocoa (moderate) — Dutch-processed cocoa; darker and milder but alkalizing strips much of the flavanol benefit.
- Natural Flavors (moderate) — Undefined lab-blended flavor compounds standing in for real vanilla; a marker of a formulated product.
- Cellulose gel (moderate) — Processed thickener that mimics fat/creaminess.
- Cellulose Gum (moderate) — Thickener and stabilizer for texture and moisture retention. Purely functional additive.
- Salt (moderate) — Added for taste and mild preservation. Fine in small amounts but adds to daily sodium.
- Carrageenan (moderate) — Seaweed-derived thickener linked to gut inflammation in some studies; common in shelf-stable shakes.
- Lactase enzyme (safe) — Breaks down lactose to make the shake lactose-free; beneficial for the intolerant.
- Monk fruit juice concentrate (safe) — Plant-based non-nutritive sweetener; fine on its own but one of four sweeteners stacked here.
- Acesulfame Potassium (moderate) — Second artificial sweetener stacked with sucralose for engineered sweetness.
- Sucralose (moderate) — Artificial sweetener; delivers the 'no added sugar' sweetness synthetically.
- Stevia leaf extract (safe) — Plant-derived zero-calorie sweetener; avoids added sugar and artificial sweeteners.
- Vitamin A palmitate (safe) — Added vitamin A; standard fortification.
- vitamin D3 (safe) — Added micronutrient supporting calcium absorption.