I used Queal for 3 months, and now I’m on jimmyjoy-plennyshake for a bit more than 1 month. I’m much more happy with jimmyjoy-plennyshake both for flavors (except chocolate, which is not tasty enough; Queal makes it better) and time of preparation (Queal requires at least a few minutes of “infusion” to fully dilute the powder; jimmyjoy-plennyshake is quick, it’s perfect!). And price too, of course.
But both jimmyjoy-plennyshake and Queal makes me flatulate all the day. And these farts have such an awful odor… It’s almost unbearable!
At the beginning, I hoped my stomach would eventually get used to this new food, but now, 4 months of almost exclusive powder meal has passed, and I can still kill-by-fart…
Am I the only one?
Is it normal?
PS: On SpaceNutrientStation they says it could be because of the selected “cheaps” ingredients.
My Fiancee and I know what you mean about the farts. My Fiancee’s best description regarding the smell “they smell like a dog eat rotten eggs”.
For the first three days, it was horrible. I had constant, smelly gas within the fourth day it normalized. Now I only get them about two hours after eating my last meal.
Aside from personal experience, I am a Food and Nutrition student with The University of Alabama.
I have four theories of why jimmyjoy-plennyshake does this to us:
Sulfur, Sulfur is a component of jimmyjoy-plennyshake. Before eating jimmyjoy-plennyshake I never got the same amount of sulfur everyday as my diet varied. My farts have a sulfuric smell to them. When I would ate eggs before the experiment, I would noticed the same sulfuric smell.
The type of oats within jimmyjoy-plennyshake, jimmyjoy-plennyshake uses “havermeel” the Dutch word for oatmeal. It’s known that this type of oat is a good food source for intestinal bacteria which in a way is bad for our social lives =), for it raises the production of methane, essentially bacteria’s waste. This is the gas we expel, we fart “bacteria poop.”
Whey Protein: Whey protein comes from cow’s milk. When I was in the military I used to drink pure whey protein shakes. I noticed that I also had odd smelling farts from the whey protein I consumed.
I have found that both regular exercise and drinking plenty of fluids (mainly water) has helped substantially.
Typically I eat my meals at 7:20 AM, 12:30PM and 5:00PM. I found that if I ate jimmyjoy-plennyshake after 5:00PM, my nightly gas would become worse. Both within the smell/duration realm. A theory is that our digestive systems slow down at night, (our bodies do a lot of other activities at night, i.e. cellular repair etc.) so it limits the amount of energy/time digesting food. In turn this slows down the digestive system, causing the food to take longer to digest, producing more methane.
Next month I will consume solely jimmyjoy-plennyshake’s Vanilla flavor, which contains a different protein source other than whey, to see if my gas improves.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Lee Primeau
Experimental Freelance Nutritionist @Eat.Health Lee
On my case, I do not have farts during the night (AFAIK, and my girlfriend never noticed either), but as soon as I wake up, though, and before I even drink jimmyjoy-plennyshake, it starts back.
My jimmyjoy-plennyshake drinking times are something like 7:40, 12:30 and 18:30.
About the farts frequency, I would say that I get the more hideous ones a few minutes after drinking JL, and still continue to have sparse gases at a frequency of about one per hour, up to the next JL drink. And so on.
Note that – thankfully – I can hold farts several hours, which is unknowingly appreciated by my office colleagues. But I’m worried that my breath would start to stink, as a result.
I also drink a 1L bottle of clear water or tea every days, so I probably get around 1.5~2L/day of water. I can hardly drink more.
The last order I had contained one vegan vanilla seems like it slipped through the cracks. On the front it had a little V which I identified later as the vegan brand.
I was considering drinking vegan vanilla for an entire month but figured it would be better to try them all as they taste different than the regular jimmyjoy-plennyshake.
For the past week I eat Mango primarily before that the four regular flavors chocolate, vanilla, banana and strawberry.
I am looking forward to the data too, while I will not publish the data straight out (I am planning on writing my bachelor’s thesis on it) I will include a statistical analysis from SPSS of any significant changes.
Yes, it is normal. On jimmyjoy-plennyshake you will win any farting contest
Seriously though, it varies per person. I’ve read a lot of times ‘the farting stops after a while’ but in my case it also continued after months of eating mostly jimmyjoy-plennyshake. When I stuck to just jimmyjoy-plennyshake I was usually fine, but the moment I would eat solid food I would start to produce some terrible gas. Eating at friends has been a painful experience a few times, trying not to let all that gas fly and ending up with a very painful stomach as a result.
@eathealthlee: thanks for sharing your theories; insightful!
I hit the jimmyjoy-plennyshake lottery.