Hemp protein powder is ground hemp seed, sold plain or blended with pea protein and sweetened. If you want a chocolate shake that tastes finished from the first scoop, ours is NØRSE CØDE: pea, rice and barley, no hemp, and it dissolves with a spoon. A bag of seed to bake with, or to build a smoothie around, is plain hemp.
Below, three Manitoba Harvest hemp products sit in a table next to ours.
Max Protein Unsweetened is the plain kind. The powder is unflavored and unsweetened, so a glass of milk with a scoop stirred in is still plain milk until a banana, cocoa or honey goes in.
The Chocolate Plant Protein Blend from the same company is the blended kind. The first scoop in a glass is already a chocolate shake, with 8g of added sugar and organic guar gum in it. The Superseed Protein Chocolate belongs with it, with more seeds added.
Manitoba Harvest figures come from the product pages linked in each entry, read on 26 August 2026. Ours are the labels of record.
| Powder | Protein | Serving | Protein sources | Sweetener | Total sugars | Gum | Fiber | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NØRSE CØDE | 20g | 45g (chocolate) | Pea, rice, barley | Allulose, monk fruit | 0g | None | 5g, including dietary fiber from acacia | 9 |
| Manitoba Harvest Max Protein Unsweetened | 20g | 32g | Hemp seed | None | 2g | None | 3g | 2 |
| Manitoba Harvest Chocolate Plant Protein Blend | 20g | 43g | Pea, hemp seed | Organic coconut sugar, monk fruit | 9g, 8g added | Organic guar | 4g | 8 |
| Manitoba Harvest Superseed Protein Chocolate | 20g | 41g | Pea, hemp seed, sunflower seed, pumpkin seed, milled flax and chia | Organic coconut sugar, monk fruit | 8g, 7g added | Organic guar | 3g | 11 |
All four carry 20g of protein, so protein does not separate them. Serving size does change what lands in your glass: our chocolate scoop is 45g and the plain hemp scoop is 32g.
We left hemp out on purpose. Both hemp blends in the table use organic guar for body. Ours came out of over a thousand iterations across two years, and the blend that gave us the texture and flavor we wanted had no hemp in it.
That blend is pea protein, rice and barley: three protein sources inside a label of nine natural ingredients. Acacia fiber gives the shake its body, which is why there is no guar in the bag. Both flavors are 0g total sugar and 0g added sugar, and no sugar alcohol is filling in.
We call the mixing SmoothBlend. One scoop goes into eight ounces of water, milk or coffee, hot or cold, and a spoon dissolves it. The shaker bottle can stay in the cupboard.
We make it ourselves in our own facility in Petaluma, California, and we third-party test every input for heavy metals. A serving is $2.54 on the eight-bag subscription and $3.57 on a single bag, from our storefront prices on 12 October 2026.
One customer wrote:
"This is the first plant protein powder I've tried that doesn't make me gassy or bloated. The chocolate tastes great and I drink it almost every day and still love it."
Two ingredients, and one of them is the hemp. Nothing in it is flavored or sweetened for you, so it fits into a smoothie or a muffin recipe that needs protein. There is 2g of total sugar and no added sugar. A 16 ounce bag gives about fourteen servings, and it is the only one of the four that suits a baker as well as a drinker. We have not baked with it ourselves.
Try It Yourself
This is the shake version of the hemp idea, finished and chocolate from the first scoop. A 16 ounce bag holds about eleven servings. We only read the chocolate page, so the other flavors are anyone's guess.
This one reads like a trail mix turned into a shake, with the longest panel of the four. Whether that makes a thick shake or a gritty one we cannot tell from a product page, and a month of mornings with the Superseed powder is the only way to find out.
The table gives ours as allulose and monk fruit at 0g sugar, and a label like that says nothing about whether the shake tastes finished in the glass. The people who can say are the ones drinking it, so here is a customer who uses it daily and describes how it mixes and where it fits in the day:
"Love the chocolate flavor! Anxious to try the Vanilla. Really like the clean ingredients, mixes well with milk, yogurt, fruit, etc. I use it right after working out at the gym and with my morning yogurt/berries/granola."
Hemp turns up in other blends too. Sunwarrior opens its ingredient list with a blend of pea, hemp seed and goji, and our Sunwarrior side-by-side lays that out. Our Orgain side-by-side covers the closest finished chocolate shake we have compared. Every powder above puts 20g in a serving, and how that 20g fits into a full day is covered in how much protein you need each day.
Plain hemp is the form for baking, and nothing in ours replaces it there. Two further groups should look elsewhere. Ours contains coconut, from the MCT oil. The barley means it is not gluten-free, so it is the wrong protein powder for celiac disease or a gluten sensitivity, and that is worth checking before you order.
For everyone else who wants a finished chocolate shake, a bag is 14 servings, which covers two weeks of daily mornings, well inside our 60 day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
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