WAM Protein - Iced Coffee

Yes — every WAM product is 100% vegan and plant-based, no exceptions. It's not just a product spec either: WAM was founded by a vegan PhD chemist who built the brand specifically to make a vegan protein that doesn't taste like a compromise.

Balanced, not overpowering. We kept the flavour light rather than intense, so it's something you look forward to rather than push through — and it means it blends into recipes instead of dominating them.

Yes — smooth in a shaker or blender, no chalky texture, no clumping. It's consistently one of the first things people mention in reviews.

No, deliberately. It's lightly sweetened with a small amount of stevia rather than stacked with intense sweeteners, so it doesn't have that syrupy, artificial-sweetener aftertaste.

Yes — it works well in recipes, not just shakes (think protein pancakes, muffins, baked oats). Two reasons: the flavour is balanced rather than intense, so it folds into a recipe instead of taking over; and WAM contains no sucralose. That matters specifically for baking — Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has flagged that heating sucralose above roughly 120°C, well within normal baking and roasting temperatures, can generate chlorinated by-products, and recommends against heating foods that contain it.

Yes! WAM provides 21–23 g of protein per 30 g serving, depending on the flavour, and protein contributes to the growth and maintenance of muscle mass. Each serving also contains 2.5 g of leucine and 4.5–4.7 g of BCAAs, which puts its amino acid profile in the same range as a typical whey shake. Combined with regular strength training and enough protein across the day, it's an easy way to reach your protein target.

Gram for gram, close: 21–23 g protein and 2.5 g leucine per 30 g serving, in the same range as whey, but without dairy. It's blended from soy, pea and rice protein so their amino acid profiles complement each other, giving all nine essential amino acids, so going dairy-free isn't a trade-off.

WAM protein is not certified gluten-free (yet). None of the ingredients themselves contain gluten, but it's produced in a facility that also handles cereals containing gluten (as well as eggs, soy, milk, and lupin), so cross-contamination is possible. If you have coeliac disease or a diagnosed gluten allergy, don't treat this as a gluten-free product.

Soy is one of the few plant proteins that's "complete" on its own, with a full amino acid profile comparable to whey. The worry usually comes from soy's isoflavones (phytoestrogens) and concerns about hormone effects; large human studies have never supported that at normal dietary intake. We use it, alongside pea and rice protein, specifically to round out WAM's amino acid profile without needing dairy.

Guar gum is a plant-derived thickener (fibre from guar beans) used in a small amount to give the shake a smooth, non-gritty texture. It's a common, natural, well-studied food ingredient. At the low levels used in WAM protein, its main effect is texture, not digestion. (Like any fibre-rich ingredient, very sensitive stomachs can react to large amounts, but that's not the dose in a single shake.)

No added sugar. WAM is sweetened only with a small amount of stevia. There is no sugar or syrup in the ingredient list and no artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, aspartame or acesulfame K. It isn't sugar-free, though: small amounts of naturally occurring sugars come from ingredients like coconut milk powder, and from banana powder in Banana Bread. The nutrition panel of each flavour shows the exact amount per serving.

Maltodextrin isn't added as a separate carb-, performance- or filler-ingredient in WAM protein. It's a sub-ingredient of the coconut milk powder (used in the spray-drying process to encapsulate fat), and EU rules require it listed in brackets, even though many brands skip that. Maltodextrin is worth knowing about at high doses if you manage blood sugar or IBD, but only very minor levels are present in WAM protein.

Only a trace. WAM Iced Coffee is made with decaffeinated instant coffee extract, so you get the coffee flavour without a real caffeine kick, which makes it easy to enjoy in the afternoon or evening. Like all decaf coffee, it isn't completely caffeine-free, so keep that in mind if you need to avoid caffeine entirely.

Yes. Every raw material comes with a batch certificate from the supplier, our manufacturer re-tests incoming ingredients, and selected batches of the finished product are also tested by Eurofins, an independent accredited laboratory. In all reports so far, covering at least one batch of every flavour, lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic were below the lab's limit of quantification. You can download the full reports on our Heavy Metals & Testing page.