A topic hitting my current bullseye, researching and making my own protein/carb powder mix.

Many comments here are familiar and generally what I am following to create my mix. What lead me down this path was all these added things added to commercial protein powders and sent me off sourcing the raw materials as much as possible.

Where i am right now is whey protein isolate is about as pure a protein powder you can obtain in the marketplace, in consumable quantities to us; that is, less than 50 pound bags. It is 80%-90% pure. One ounce (28.4g) then equates to about 23-26 grams protein and about 100 calories.

Carbo content is coming from starch based maltodextrin with a DE in the 20s so not much sweetness either. The powder is 100% so 28 grams of carb.

Now, last part to make get a bit more sweetness into the mix and that is where I am presently exploring various sweetening ingredients, from sucrose/glucose, to fructose and HFCS, as well as natural fruits and juices.

My current situation is I am week 5 of rads and still able to swallow, drink water, eat puree foods, smoothies, milkshakes, etc. There is definitely pain associated during swallowing when zero medications but quite acceptable with a low dose of hydrocodone.

The goal is to create something that has high caloric density yet still can be swallowed without being an overly thick mass and hopefully have some decent taste as well.

Second option is to allow less caloric density and less viscous and use the concoction as my regular sipping liquid all day, just keep a few ice cubes in there to keep things cool but not frozen. Or I guess I can use it for smoothies to if I need/want a frozen texture but that gets a bit harder to consume for me, cool is fine.