Ghost Whey Protein Review — As Good As the Popular Powders?

We’ve got a lot of protein powders on our shelves, but none of them stand out the way Ghost does. Most protein powders are housed in serious black tubs emblazoned with block letters and bro science terms like “ultra premium” and “extreme muscle,” but Ghost comes in a cream-colored tub with ghosts, monkeys, and funky, graffiti-like branding scrawled across it.

The brand, which overall is more focused on pre-workouts than protein, hopes to be the world’s first “lifestyle sports nutrition brand” and their website includes music playlists, fitness articles, and short documentaries about the founders. They don’t just sponsor athletes, they sponsor DJs and entrepreneurs.

To sum it up, Ghost is cool, cool in a way that no other self-serious supplement company manages. The branding sucked me right in. The question is, how does the product stack up?

Ghost Whey Protein Nutrition Facts

One scoop contains 130 calories, 25 grams of protein, 4 grams of carbs (including 1 gram of fiber and 2 grams of sugar), and 1.5 grams of fat (1 gram of which is saturated).

Outside of the macros, Ghost also contains 10 percent of your recommended daily intake of calcium and 6 percent of your iron. If you have a more restrictive diet, you should also know that it has 40mg of cholesterol (13 percent of your RDI) and 160mg of sodium (7 percent of your RDI).

Given this breakdown, Ghost is a good pick for low-carb diets, low-fat diets, and/or low-calorie diets.

Ghost Whey Protein Nutrition Ingredients

Their website says that, “most brands (…) get all crazy and tend to overthink their protein. We wanted to keep Ghost Whey as simple as possible.”

And the ingredients list is shorter than some of other companies. The Whey Protein mix is comprised of whey protein isolate, concentrate, and hydrolyzed whey in that order. Each form of whey has its own benefits — isolate has the most protein, concentrate has more ingredients linked to health benefits (like CLA fats), and hydrolyzed whey absorbs the fastest.

What’s nice is that they also disclose the exact amount of each kind of whey: one scoop has 14.53 grams of isolate, 13.16 grams of concentrate, and 2.98 grams of hydrolyzed isolate. Note that the isolate and concentrate have been sunflower lecithinated, which should improve mixability without adding any soy.

Source: Barbend