That's exactly what my formula looks like. I've been working on whole food powders of EVERY IMAGINABLE variety for 5 years now. I changed my mind about 100 times. I started with a super comprehensive wholefood meal replacement that would've been...by far...the most nutritious bodybuilding meal replacement in the history of this industry, but after 2 manufacturers told me the product would cost me over $70 a unit, I said "No thanks".Since this thread is back to having some activity to it, I would like to ask a few questions.
- For an HBCD, if you could pick 2 flavors what would they be? (For me, they would be between Blue Raspberry Popsicle, Pink Grapefruit, Blackberry Mojito, Rocket Pop, and Tea flavors)
- For a carb blend with Purple Sweet Potato, Oat Powder, and Glucomannan - what ratios would you like to see? I personally don't care about the Glucomannan being in it; I'm not against it, I just don't care either way. But my thought would be 25 grams carbs per scoop and I would like a 50:50 split between the Sweet Potato and the Oats.
I then moved to a less comprehensive, but still pinnacle product. Once again, I scrapped it because everyone I spoke to told me there was no way they could make the product taste anywhere near as good as the competition because of the ingredients in my formula.
After that, I began working with NutraCap (NEVER AGAIN) because they led me to believe they could and would source any ingredient I wanted...and complete the product in 12 weeks. LOL! A full YEAR later they still hadn't even approved the label...and at NutraCap, the label needs to be approved BEFORE they will make your product. In other words, a YEAR LATER they had accomplished virtually nothing...and they tried to blaming me! Unbelievable. I should've believed all the bad reviews I saw before hiring them. It was so bad that it took 4+ months just to try and correct a SINGLE label issue. Why? After I first gave them the label, it took them two whole months to even review it...and when they did, they told me that something needed to be changed...and I made the change in one day. It then took them ANOTHER 2 months (I'm not shitting you) to review the correction...and once they did, thy told me that they had a made a mistake and that I needed to change the label back to what it was before! Yes, I'm serious. At that point I asked for my money back and they promptly complied...because I had email proof of their employees admitting that they hadn't held up to their end of the bargain (in regards to production timeframes).
After That I went back to my original manufacturer (who I should've stuck with all along) and contemplated making a whole food based product with added low-dose EAAs, but again, I scrapped it because I just didn't feel confident about it.
It's only been in the last two months that I finally put together some innovative formulas that are both super nutritious and (will be) awesome tasting. However, unlike the prior products, these are solely carb powders...similar to 5% Nutrition's Sweet Potato carb powder, but more nutritious and with more ingredients. Like you, I decided on splitting the sweet potato/purple sweet potato and oats 50/50. Using 100% purple sweet potato makes the product too expensive and also limits the favor profile because oats are so easy to flavor. You can make oats taste like almost anything.