For the purposes of adding to almond flour in making delicious batter to fry things, can anyone comment whether it matters which product is used. They are both
whey powder.
I’m looking at two (same brand) Whey protein concentrate powder (which also contains sunflower lecithin), and whey protein isolate powder (which also contains soya lecithin).
Both are sweetner and additive free, one is more expensive because it goes through a further refinement process as a supplement.
by DSM-V_Graveyard
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One has twice as much carbohydrate as the other but it’s still a relatively small amount total. 100g is around two scoops iirc. You won’t be using nearly that much or your fried stuff will be not delicious. Portion matters.
I’ll give you another related example of how portion matters. I used to fool around with all these breading substitutes, almond flour, pork rinds, all of it, but actually it doesn’t taste good and the texture is weird. Then one day frustrated, I decided to test something I like very much: Corn Meal.
Now Corn Meal is quite a high carbohydrate food and if you’re making cornbread with it there’s no way it’s ever going to be keto so you’d be inclined to dismiss it immediately. The thing is, it doesn’t take very much Corn Meal to make a piece of fish or a vegetable crispy and satisfying. In fact, corn meal doesn’t really like to stick to things anyway. If you toss a filet of fish or a chicken breast in corn meal and shake off the excess the coverage is only maybe 10% of the area but it’s still crispy and delicious.
So here’s what I did. I measured out a baggie of Corn Meal and weighed it. I prepared a double restaurant portion of fish, shaking them in the bag then shaking them off in the bag. I then reweighed the bag. I did not even consider the corn meal that definitely fell off in the fryer. The difference in weight (divided by 2 for the double portion) was still within my macros for that meal. It wasn’t zero but it was doable. From that day I never suffered through substitute breading again. There’s your portion story, take it for what it’s worth.