CytoGainer Flavor Review

Cytosport's CytoGainer has become my second highest recommendation for a weight gainer powder due to its composition (behind the more expensive Dymatize Mega Milk). And we all know Cytosport's reputation for delivering on taste. So I bought my first couple tubs of it: Chocolate Mint Chip and Cookies and Creme (because I loved the Muscle Milk version of that flavor so much).

I can't explain why (since the contents of CytoGainer are so similar to Muscle Milk's), but the Cookies and Creme tastes like crap. I didn't enjoy drinking it with skim milk at all, and the MM version with skim milk tastes like a freaking Oreo Milkshake (you were right Kabuki, you were right, my friend, and damn them all the hell the liars who feign to disagree). Fact is, I preferred both the plain Vanilla and Chocolate N-Large's I had last year.

Score: 3/10

The Chocolate Mint Chip: now THIS is what I'm talking about! This one tastes more like the oreo's I've come to expect from my CS protein powders, but with a mint twist. Really, there's not much more to it than that. It tastes exactly like its name would suggest.

Score: 9/10

*For the scores, keep in mind that average should be scaled to 5, not a 6 or a 7, which I have noticed people automatically assume. When was the last time you saw someone at IMDb rate a movie a "5" and then say, "It was so-so."? Not often. Usually they're trashing the film.

CYTOGAINER FLAVORS:
Banana Creme
Chocolate
Chocolate Mint Chip
Cookies and Creme
Rocky Road
Strawberry Creme
Vanilla

 

Thanks, Chad. You tried any of the other flavors?

I was hoping everyone would add their reviews and scores, especially for the less popular flavors I didn't cover (like Banana Creme).

 

The whey is just whey protein. The Cytogainer has carbs (maltodextrin) and fats (MCT's especially) in addition to a blend of wheys as well as some creatine and glutamine.

*EDIT* This is wrong. There are no MCT's in Cytogainer.

 

Definitely chocolate is the way to go.

 

Carbs.

Actually, I'm wrong about CytoGainer. It has no MCT's. That's cool, though, I can buy MCT powder separately and add it. It's a good thing it won't take much, because that stuff's expensive ($15-18/lb).

Cytosport is very popular in here, TKD, so I'm actually starting a new thread to answer this question.

 

Vanilla #1? That's a major surprise. Do you typically like Vanillas more than Chocolate, or is this a special case, where the Vanilla is like, "OMG, that's better than everything else?"

Usually vanilla's at the bottom of my list.

BTW, good post. Thanks for the rankings.

 

There's an entire thread devoted to this with many more responses than in this one (since MM is much more popular than Cytogainer). I can't remember if I started it. So search for Muscle Milk, Sudo, and probably for threads started under my handle.

 

I gotta say, I got sick of the Mint Chocolate quick. I don't enjoy either in plain water.

That's how it was with N-Large, though, too. My friends experienced the same thing with weight gainers. Don't know what it is. You just get sick of the flavor faster than protein powders.