A commenter on my last post asked if it’s possible to mix up without any coconut flour at all. Yes but you have to increase the psyllum husk to 18g. I wasn’t sure what that would taste like but I was interested to try it. Unfortunately my shipment of Chocolate Mint, Strawberry and Vanilla proteins will not be arriving until Monday. So I mixed up some keto chow using the little chocolate flavored protein I still had, but without any coconut flour.
1 day of Keto Chow. There isn’t much to it, only about 140g of stuff.
It’s still funny how small it is, less than 150g of powder that you mix with around a half cup of heavy cream, some MCT oil and… that’s your daily nutrients!
3 different bottles with Keto Chow mixed up.
I put it in the refrigerator and let it hang out for a while. As expected, the psyllum husk powder absorbed a lot of water and thickened up the mixture a little bit. I might not need so much Xanthan Gum, I’ll probably cut it in half for my next batch. It feels smooth and creamy in my mouth and tastes like… well, a bit like slightly watered down chocolate milk. I think it maybe can use some additional chocolate flavoring, my wife disagrees and thinks it tastes great as it is. It should work well with the different flavored protein powders that are coming on Monday. Here’s a close up of the mixed stuff after refrigeration and a few hours:
Keto Chow after 3 hours
The psyllum goes nearly transparent and it’s the majority of the bits you see in the mixture. Notably there isn’t hardly any separation whereas Ketofood does quite a bit:
Ketofood after 4 hours.
OK, let’s look a little closer!
A spoon dipped in Ketofood, no chia seeds for a change
Spoon dipped in Keto Chow. It’s mostly bubbles and psyllum that you see.
And here’s the same test in video format:
My next batch will probably be strawberry or vanilla, have half the xanthan gum and I might put back in some of the coconut flour to see what it does to the flavor and texture.
Hmmm… I may have to try this version once I’m through my current supply of People Chow. :-)
Ok yeah, I’m definitely going to be moving this direction instead of my gritty meals now. Mine looks just like your Ketofood picture if not a tiny bit worse. I don’t mind it so much, but would definitely prefer it to be smooth.
I had my fiance try my drink and she liked the flavor but couldn’t handle the grittiness.
Have you experimented with using Davinci syrups to add flavor? There are a bunch of sugar free ones. With the caramel flavor added to my chocolate soylent it almost tastes like I’m eating those Girl Scouts Caramel Delight cookies. I’ve been tempted to try using flavorless ingredients, skipping cocoa powder and just use the flavor syrups.
I haven’t even looked at those before, going to have to check them out.
http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/x2l0z/are_these_ok_davinci_gourmet_sugar_free_syrups/