When Muscle and Fitness put CNP Professional’s Pro Peptide ‘Under the microscope’ in their June issue they gave it a top five star rating all round. Pro Peptide is an advanced protein supplement containing a blend of bioactive ‘fast and slow’ proteins that provide both anabolic and anti-catabolic properties to help build muscle tissue. It’s loaded with probiotics and prebiotics to promote an efficient digestive system and contains peptide bonded glutamine.
Pro Peptide is supplied in powder form that can easily be shaken up with water to make a tasty drink in either strawberry, vanilla or chocolate malt flavour. Its ingredients include micellar casein, high fraction whey concentrate and isolate, hydrolised whey and egg white.
Muscle and Fitness looked closely at the peptide bonded glutamine in Pro Peptide. Glutamine is a multi-functional amino acid that can both promote muscle growth and inhibit muscle damage during training. “The versatility of CNP’s glutamine makes it an important part of muscle recovery,” says Muscle and Fitness. “The peptide bond form makes it a superior choice.”
CNP’s low temperature micellar casein also came in for scrutiny. CNP uses milk protein cultured with bifidus and acidophilus organisms that are common to yoghurt. These organisms promote a healthy digestive system and encourage a slow release of amino acids into the blood. Muscle and Fitness found this a “very novel approach to a complete protein supplement”.
The other ingredient Muscle and Fitness examined was the high fraction concentrate and isolate whey protein. CNP’s premier proteins in Pro Peptide are manufactured directly from skimmed milk using a low-temperature processing method, whereas most other producers use proteins manufactured from cheese whey as the starting point. In this way their integrity is not compromised and they are more easily digested and absorbed into the body allowing for maximum transfer of amino acid to the tissue.
“Whey is dense in branched chain aminos which can be considered anabolic and anti-catabolic,” explains Muscle and Fitness. “It’s also dense in cysteine, the amino acid that fights inflammation in the body.”
Pro Peptide is available from high street retailers or online from www.cnpprofessional.co.uk at a discounted price of £28.15 for the 908g tub (28 servings) and £52.79 for a big 2270g pack (70 servings) or.
CNP Professional is one of the UK’s leading sports nutrition specialist companies. For more information visit www.cnpprofessional.co.uk, or call +44 (0) 161 368 0942 for sports nutrition advice and +44 (0) 161 368 3850 for sales.