This is a companion post to my ProLon review. Below is a list of the products contained within ProLon, allowing people with allergies or special dietary needs to easily check the ingredients.
Note that I’ve added a section at the bottom for the Soup Variety 2 box that ProLon have added – with some pictures of, and ingredients for, the new soups.
Table of Contents
The first image shows the distribution of food across each of the 5 days, this is the version for “soup variety 1”, rather than the new soup options:
For “soup variety 2” this is the meal card:
Soups
Minestrone & Quinoa Blend Soup
Minestrone Soup
Mushroom Soup
Tomato Soup
Vegetable Soup
Bars, Crackers & Olives
L-Bar Nut-Based
L-Bar Choco Crisp
L-Bar Kale Crackers
Olives – Garlic Flavored
Olives – Sea Salt Flavored
Teas
L-Drinks
Supplements
Algae Oil (200mg Omega-3)
NR-3 Vitamin, Mineral & Amino Acid Supplement
Soup Variety 2 (New)
Unfortunately I haven’t seen the nutritional facts for these soups yet, however we can at least look at the ingredients. I think the ingredients list could be particularly useful for people with intolerances or allergies.
Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut Squash & Quinoa Soup
White Bean & Spinach Soup
So, I’m working on mimicking the fmd for my coworkers who aren’t willing to spend the money… Are the vitamin packs sold separately? Or has anyone come across something comparable?
They’re not available separately that I’m aware. I think it’ll be hard to find something exactly the same – particularly due to the small amount of amino acids; cysteine and methionine.
Does it matter if you eat the entire day’s food at once?
Hi Alexis. Good question. The clinical studies that the health benefits for ProLon are based off used 3x small meals per day. Deviating from that protocol makes it harder to predict the results. That being said, given your overall dietary intake during the course of the 5 days will stay the same, it’s unlikely that you will negate the benefits of the program.
I’m curious what your thoughts are on the L-drink? Does this provide anything that is valuable or is it essentially the same/healthier to just drink water?
Hi Leilah, thanks for the message. Good question.
So, people who are in a fasted state naturally produce glycerol, and this is used for gluconeogenesis (the production of glucose from non-carbohydrate substrates like fat and muscle). Valter notes in this video below that after 3 ProLon cycles, when measured, people are found to have lost minimal amounts of muscle – and one of the reasons could be due to the L-Drink.
Is there a reason organic ingredients aren’t used in the products? Only the teas use them. Also, what is the source of the vitamin complex, synthetic, or whole food? I ask because the vitamin source is not listed! For example “vitamin C” from ascorbic acid.
Thanks
Hi Doug, agree, it would be more ideal if all the ingredients were certified organic. Regarding vitamins, to my knowledge they’re not sourced from whole foods. Generally that is a more expensive process, and likely would be noted if it was the case.
All that being said, you could relay these questions to L-Nutra (the company who make ProLon), whom I am not a part of, and they may be able to provide more information. It’s also good for companies to get feedback, at which point they have the option to take it on board for future product decisions.
Thanks John for the feed back to my questions.
I notice that the pourcentage of carbs/protrein/fat in ProLon does not match what is published by Valter Longo ( 47% carb 9% prot 44% fat)
For day 3 for example proteines are much higher (13%).
I can’t speak to that particular example, but when I looked at the numbers previously, I did notice some small fluctuations, compared to the published data. Given that L-Nutra work closely with Valter, I presume that they don’t believe these fluctuations to be an issue. Part of that is likely down to the protein sources (non-animal) and the specific amino acid compositions.