Best protein powder with simple ingredients

Best protein powder with simple ingredients means a short list you can recognize: the protein, maybe a flavor, maybe a sweetener, maybe salt. It overlaps with "clean" and "without fillers," but the check is countable ingredients, not marketing words.

Disclosure: I run Cantein. Unflavored is one ingredient. Flavors add organic monk fruit (and cocoa in chocolate).

Short ingredient lists • No gums on Cantein • Use the checker • Shop Cantein

Run any tub through the ingredient checker. Broader framework: clean protein powder. Gum-free shortlist: protein powder without gums.

Pick	Approx. ingredient count	Protein
Cantein Unflavored	1	28g / 35g hemp
Naked Pea / Rice unflavored	1	27g or 25g
Cantein Vanilla	Short (hemp + monk fruit + flavor system)	22g
Naked Whey Isolate	2 on checked label	~30g

What usually lengthens a label

Gums and thickeners
Sweetener blends (stevia + erythritol + flavors)
Added fibers (inulin, chicory)
Vitamin packs and proprietary blends

The short version

Simple ingredients usually means unflavored single-ingredient powder, or a flavored tub with a handful of recognizable lines. Cantein Unflavored is the one-ingredient hemp option.

I run Cantein. Count the lines on the bag you buy.