A lot of people will buy a product because it says 'diet' on it - & this is no different with supplements & protein products. & this is not me dismissing diet products or saying they don't work - because for some they do! - I am just saying be aware of WHY these products are considered diet products, don't just assume they are lower in calories, fat etc due to the word 'diet'.
Diet products are generally targeted at women - because women are filled with messages & concepts that they should be on a diet, or a certain size, or a certain way through the media, other people etc but FUCK THAT - but anyone who buys a diet product should understand what 'diet' entails.
A LOT of supplements - whey, protein bars - which have the word 'diet' attached to them or on their label, will not be for the reasons you would expect. To me - a diet product would have less calories, fat, carbs, something along those lines, but some are the opposite. Some diet products have MORE calories, more fat, more carbs - the reason they are considered 'diet' is due to the extra ingredients.
Extra ingredients such as: green tea extract, guarana, L-carnitine, CLA or some form of thermogenic - essentially products which would be considered to help increase metabolism.
- Example of a 'regular' 'full fat' whey protein powder.
- Example of a 'Diet' whey protein powder.
The example above demonstrates this - the diet product has 4 less calories, but the diet has 1.8 grams of fat as opposed to 1.6 grams of the regular (although it does have less saturated fat) & the diet product has 3.8 grams of carbs per serving in comparison to the regular products 1.9 grams. In addition you would have to have more than a 25g serving of diet product to yield 20 grams of protein.
Now I am not saying diet products shouldn't be used or are no good, BUT I am making you aware of WHY they are diet products.
I hope this was helpful! :)
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