Both are 20g of protein a serving. KOS also puts in a multivitamin, a greens blend and digestive enzymes. Ours has nine ingredients.
On the shelf, KOS wins. More in the scoop, and $2.14 a serving against our $3.57.
Now go and look in your cupboard.
If you have bought plant protein before, there is a fair chance a tub is sitting at the back of it, two thirds full, bought with the best intentions in March. You drank it for a week. Then one morning you reached past it, and you have reached past it ever since.
That tub did not cost $2.14 a serving. It cost what you paid, split across the eight mornings you actually drank it.
It comes down to taste, which sounds obvious until you try to solve it without the usual tools.
There are two standard ways to make pea protein pleasant to drink. A thickening gum gives the liquid enough body that the texture reads as creamy instead of gritty. A sugar alcohol sweetens it hard enough that the protein hides behind the sweetness. Both work, and both are what people name when they tell us why they stopped drinking their last one.
We would not put either in the bag, so the taste and the texture had to come out of the formula itself. That took two years and more than a thousand attempts.
Then we put it in front of strangers. A third party ran a blind test against Orgain and Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder. More people chose ours than chose both of theirs combined.
KOS went the other way, and it is a fair call. One scoop of theirs stands in for a protein powder, a multivitamin and a greens powder. If clearing three tubs off the counter is what you want, KOS does it and we do not.
Figures for KOS come from their product page, read 30 July 2026. Ours come from the chocolate and vanilla labels.
| Spec | NØRSE CØDE | KOS |
|---|---|---|
| Protein per serving | 20g | 20g |
| Ingredient count | 9 natural ingredients | A 5-protein blend, a superfood blend, a 12-vitamin and mineral blend, and a digestive enzyme blend |
| Added vitamins, greens, enzymes | None | All three |
| Gums, fillers, artificial sweeteners | None | None disclosed. KOS lists no dairy, soy, gluten, erythritol or artificial sweeteners |
| Fiber | 5g per serving, including prebiotic acacia | 3g per serving |
| Servings per container | 14 | 28 |
| Manufacturing | Our own facility in Petaluma, California | Not stated. KOS says production runs through a GMP-certified facility |
| Third-party testing | Every input, for heavy metals | Stated as third-party tested |
| Guarantee | 60 days, money back, no questions asked | 15-day returns |
| Price per serving | $3.57, or $2.54 on the 8-bag subscription | $2.14 |
Yes. $2.14 against our $3.57, and our eight-bag subscription only brings us to $2.54.
Part of that is container size, since their tub holds 28 servings where our bag holds 14. The rest is that we spend more on what goes into it.
Nine natural ingredients, with no gums and no sugar alcohols, which meant solving taste and texture inside the formula instead of with additives layered on top. That took more than a thousand attempts over two years. Every input is third-party tested for heavy metals, which matters more in plant protein than in whey, because a plant takes up whatever is in the soil it grew in. And we make it ourselves in Petaluma rather than buying a finished blend, which is the only reason a thousand attempts was possible at all.
If price per serving is the number that decides it, KOS wins, and we would rather you knew that here than after a bag arrives.
Try It Yourself
Yes, in a glass with a spoon. That is not a small claim for a plant protein, because grit and lumps are the usual reason people end up owning a shaker bottle they have to wash.
It goes into hot coffee without seizing into lumps, and into iced coffee without settling. There is no blender jug to rinse, no shaker bottle to lose the lid of, and nothing gritty waiting in the last mouthful.
That short label is also the honest answer to whether it will sit well. No gums, no sugar alcohols and no dairy means there is less in the glass to argue with.
"I love Norse Code. It mixes easily and blends well with any fruits and nut milks. And no artificial taste! Thank you, Smari." (customer review, five stars, June 2026)
"The texture is great! No more powdery protein shakes and I dont need to use a blender. No more artificial sweeter after taste in my mouth when using Norse Code." (customer review, five stars, November 2025)
Most protein brands hand a formula to a co-packer and take delivery of what comes back. We own the factory in Petaluma, so we pick every input that goes in and third-party test all of them for heavy metals.
Yes, both are 20g per serving. KOS also includes a multivitamin, a greens blend and digestive enzymes. Ours has nine ingredients, with 5g of fiber including prebiotic acacia, and nothing else added.
The gap is the container, not the powder. Their tub holds 28 servings where ours holds 14, and the two cost about the same, which works out at $2.14 a serving against our $3.57. Our 8-bag subscription brings us to $2.54, so it's worth comparing per serving rather than per package.
It does, along with a greens blend. If getting all of that in one scoop saves you a step you care about, that's a good reason to buy KOS. We don't offer it, because each of those blends would add a dozen lines to a label we keep at 9 ingredients.
KOS gives you more in every serving. We give you one you'll finish.
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