The Best Keto Fat Bomb Powder I've Come Across

“Keto” is a huge buzzword these days. Several years ago most of what you’d hear was 4 hour body or Paleo. The ketogenic diet was there, it just wasn’t “mainstreamed” like it is today.

Nowadays, you can hardly do anything health related without hearing the word “keto”, and usually what you hear next is “fat bomb”. Turns out there’s a good reason: when you get rid of carbohydrates and get your energy from fats, your body responds well.

So it’s not hard to imagine that a lot of companies are jumping on this keto bandwagon. The problem is the same as with any buzz – you get people jumping in promising all kinds of benefits, but eventually you start getting products that are technically “keto” but reject the spirit of keto (see “keto desserts” made with lots of fake sweeteners).

When a product comes along that really strips things down and also tastes good, it’s worth noting. Naked Nutrition has a really stellar keto powder, but more on that in a moment.

What is the keto diet?

Just a quick primer for folks who don’t know or have heard the word and aren’t super sure what it is.

The ketogenic diet is a super low carb, high fat diet designed to give your body energy without the sugar. When our bodies can’t be fueled by sugar, we eventually enter a state called ketosis. The body will produce ketones from fat and burn them for energy instead of sugar (and we all know how hard it is to quit sugar).

In particular, really overweight people will burn body fat very efficiently while in ketosis. After all, that’s why we store excess energy as fat. So that when there isn’t sugar to burn, we have something stored up that we can use. Sugar is like kindling – it gets you a big flame, but it burns out very quickly. We want the slow burn of fat to keep energy levels sustained and blood sugar low.

High insulin turns on fat storage, low insulin lets fat get burned (more info here).

Bottom line: a keto diet keeps your insulin low so that you can burn fat more efficiently.

So why do I need a keto fat bomb powder?

                       

The truth is, you don’t. None of us need supplements to follow a particular eating plan.

It’s just that some of us are really busy and could use some help. Keto fat bombs are very popular as quick, simple ways to get some fat calories, though most of the time they’re something you eat, rather than something you drink.

If you’re like me, you’re usually on the go in the morning in particular. I love my daily cuppa coffee, and to help me get over the breakfast hump, I will sometimes do a fatty coffee (some people might use the term “bulletproof”, but Dave Asprey won’t like that if it’s not his brand of coffee).

But maybe you don’t like blending coconut oil and butter into your coffee. That’s where this particular powder comes in.

All the good, none of the bad

I’ve tried a few different “keto” powders, and the main beef I have with all of them has been the sweetener. It’s easy enough to add a small bit of cocoa powder to get the chocolate flavor (more than half of the carbs a good cocoa powder is fiber), or some vanilla extract, or even a vanilla bean. You can also get powdered MCT or Coconut oil.

Or you can get something that handles the flavor (or not) in one scoop. That’s what my new favorite keto powder does.

I’ll just break down what I like about it:

Very few ingredients

Their non-flavored powder has only 2 ingredients. The flavored ones add flavoring, a bit of sweetener (Stevia and monk fruit), and salt.

Not too sweet

The thing I really disliked about other brands was how sweet they were, and then how bitter that sweetness was at the end. When you use too much of any non-sugar sweetener, you get that bad taste. Even stevia, which I prefer over all of them, can leave that bad taste. This one doesn’t do that for me.

Speaking of their stevia – it looks like they use ground stevia leaf rather than stevia extract. That’s much preferred to an extract powder or liquid. Maybe that’s why it’s not as bitter.