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Vanilla Flavored Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Drink, Vanilla

Optimum Nutrition · Optimum Nutrition, Inc.

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product. Same brand, tested
  • Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
  • Additives2 ingredients have a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of powdered drinks show what's typical. See levels

FDA recalls

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Sucralose (E955)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source
  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E955. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
  • Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
  • Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source

Acesulfame potassium (E950)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source
  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E950. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
  • Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
  • Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source

Typical for powdered drinks

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Fruit drink, from powder: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Fruit drink, from powder: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Fruit drink, from powder: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Fruit drink, from powder: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Fruit drink, from powder: found in 5 of 20, average 0.33, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Different items from the same brand that a lab has tested. Not this exact product.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SUNFLOWER OIL, CELLULOSE GEL, POTASSIUM CITRATE, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, SALT, SUCRALOSE, CELLULOSE GUM, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CARRAGEENAN, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, DL-ALPHA TOCOPHERYL ACETATE (ANTIOXIDANT).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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