A protein powder built from pea, rice, soy, or any other plant clears lactose intolerance automatically. There's no dairy in the formula, so there's nothing for a sensitive gut to react to. That part of the decision is already made before you've compared a single label. The part that isn't made yet: whether you like the thing enough to actually finish the bag. A shake abandoned half-full in the back of the fridge is protein you paid for and never got. The table below has the formula facts. The writeups underneath it say the one thing about each powder the table can't.
| Powder | Protein source | Sweetener | Gums / fillers | Ingredient count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NØRSE CØDE | Pea, rice, barley | Allulose, monk fruit | None | 9 |
| Orgain Organic Protein & Superfoods | Pea protein blend | Stevia | Guar gum, xanthan gum | 40+ (superfoods blend) |
| Vega Protein & Supergreens | Pea protein | Stevia leaf extract | Guar gum, xanthan gum | ~15 |
| Ka'Chava | Plant blend | Monk fruit, stevia | Acacia gum, xanthan gum, guar gum | 70+ |
| Sunwarrior | Pea, goji, hemp (fermented) | Organic stevia | Organic guar gum | ~8 |
| Complement Organic Plant Protein | Pea, pumpkin, almond, sunflower, chia | Stevia | None | ~9 |
| Momentous 100% Plant Protein | Pea, brown rice | Reb M stevia | None (current formula) | ~6 |
| Genuine Health Fermented Organic Vegan Proteins+ | Pea, brown rice, hemp, pumpkin (fermented) | Organic stevia | Xanthan gum | ~9 |
| IdealRaw Organic Plant Protein | Rice, pea, coconut, chia, sunflower, flax, pumpkin | Organic vanilla sugar | None | ~12 |
| NutriBiotic Rice Protein | Sprouted brown rice | None | None | 2 |
We built this one to solve the problem lactose intolerance forces on you a second time. You switch off dairy, land on a plant powder, and the plant powder tastes like it apologizes for existing. We ran ours through a blind taste test against Orgain and a leading whey protein anyway, dairy or not, because taste is the thing that actually decides whether a bag gets finished. More people chose NØRSE CØDE than the other two combined. A customer wrote: "I really like this protein powder. I received a flier at a spartan race my family and I did last year. I have been holding on to this flier for all this time and finally decided I needed to give it a try, and I am so glad I did. It's smooth, clean, and tastes great." She closed by thanking us for making it a fixture for her and her family now. That's the bar we hold ourselves to, not the lactose-free box, which every powder on this table already checks.
Orgain was started by an oncologist, Dr. Andrew Abraham, who built the original formula for his own nutrition during cancer treatment. The superfoods blend riding along with the protein traces back to that clinical-nutrition origin, not a gym one.
Supergreens is the second word in the name for a reason. Open the tub and the powder itself skews more olive than brown, which is unusual next to nine chocolate-and-vanilla shelves in a row, and it's the greens blend doing that, not the protein.
Ka'Chava is built as a meal replacement, not a protein add-in: a five-enzyme blend and two probiotic strains for digestion, plus a plant-milk creamer base for texture. The price reflects that too.
A fermentation-forward formula, which the brand markets as easier on digestion than a standard cold-processed pea isolate. Whether that shows up for you personally is the kind of thing no label can promise.
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Pea, pumpkin seed, almond, sunflower seed, chia: five protein sources where most of this table settles for two or three, and it still doesn't reach for a gum to hold the texture together.
Momentous started as a supplement brand for athletes, not a protein-powder brand, and it shows in the label: nothing but pea, rice, cane sugar, salt, and stevia. The company says on its own product page that an earlier version carried gums and fillers and the current one dropped them.
Genuine Health says it built the first fermented protein powder line, years before fermentation showed up as a selling point on Sunwarrior's label or anyone else's. Being early doesn't settle which one digests easier for you; it just means this is the company that started the argument.
Rice, pea, coconut, chia, sunflower, flax, pumpkin, plus a superfruit mix: seven protein sources on one label, and it reads that way. One quiet difference from the rest of the page: real cane sugar does the sweetening, not stevia, so it's worth a second look if you're watching added sugar too.
Two ingredients. Nothing else.
Every powder on this table clears the lactose question the same way: none of them contain dairy, so that part was never actually in doubt. What decides whether the bag gets finished is taste, and NØRSE CØDE is the one on this list that put that to an actual test rather than a claim: more people chose it in a blind taste test than Orgain and a leading whey protein combined. If a short ingredient list matters to you as much as taste does, NutriBiotic's two-item formula is the one other entry here built the same way we build ours, minus the fiber and the flavor work.
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