- It benefits your muscles, improves your workouts and aids recovery. After exercise, our bodies need protein to recover and repair, we are fixing muscle tears and rebuilding muscles to be stronger. Plant-based proteins, such as pea and brown rice, both of which are included in our Hero Nutrition Perform + Recover formula, have been found to be as effective as whey protein when it comes to body composition and exercise performance (1, 2, 3).
- Refuelling after activity. Intense of prolonged activity causes an increase in muscle protein breakdown. This is followed by an increase in muscle protein synthesis over the next 24 hours. A high quality, post workout, vegan protein powder should ideally be consumed within 30 minutes of a workout to replenish energy stores and rebuild muscle (4, 5).
- Boost your vitamin and mineral intake. We know that vitamins and minerals are vital to keep your body healthy, and therefore, you training! Many plant-based protein products contain a wide range of nutrients, for example, pea protein products are a source of calcium, iron, phosphorus and zinc (6). Also, research has found that replacing animal proteins with plant protein sources increased fibre intake and improved the quality of dietary fat (7).
- Eliminate dairy and beat the bloat! Often bloating occurs due to common allergens or food sensitivities. At Hero Nutrition, our pea and brown rice protein in our Perform + Recover formula, means our protein powder is hypoallergenic, so it will be gut friendly.
- Convenient for you whilst considering our environment. It can be difficult to consume the right amount of protein each day, especially if you are reducing your intake of animal products, so a protein powder is an easy option to meet your demands. They are portable and useful when food availability is limited. Sometimes it can be challenging to consume food after strenuous exercise and liquid nutrition can be a good solution to this problem. Not only are you helping yourself but you are considering our environment because animal protein products produce more greenhouse gas emissions that plant-based protein products (8).
Source:
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25628520/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358922/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698202/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21289204/
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1186/s12970-017-0189-4
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157521005329
- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/4/943/htm
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore
