"These reviews are always populated by the people who cant stand the taste - and those that complain they should just grin and bare it.\nIt is, I have to say, the worst tasting product I have had (and ive dished alot of cash out on powders over the last few yrs) - it basically feels like nothing has dissolved and your necking the powder without water - Ive got chocolate (5kg!!!) and im not looking forward to the next 3 or so months. I can bare it with a fruit juice to give it a sweeter taste, but i still have to wash my mouth out after! The fact it has glumatmine and HMB with a massive dosage of protein in it, tempted me, even with the bad taste reviews - so if its doing its job, ill just neck it and cringe!"

"I agree with everyone else who complained about the poor taste - it's really disgusting. I have tried many different protein drinks and this was by far the worse I have ever tasted. Not only that, it mixes very badly by creating a great deal of foam which you either have to drink and get bloated or leave to settle for ages. This was my first purchase on this site and I am very disappointed and wont come back. I'll be sticking to cottage cheese and some choc whey for my overnight protein cover!!\nThe bedtime extreme is now in the bin - despite being hardly touched....not happy. In case you were wondering - I had the chocolate one!! I feel sick again thinking about it....!"

I want to add more info for this product also.\nI suffer like most with sorness since on this product and recovery XS my aches go a lot quicker and dont come on has bad in first place.\nmixing is fine on these two products also.\n

"i'm not being funny but you people who moan about taste must have some problems.\n\nI have chocolate and it taste fine I mean its not bad at all to say its a protien drink with HMB in it.\nIt's not hot chocolate but by no means hard to drink due to taste, my only problem is the 700ml you have to drink with it quite a lot of water. if you have chocolate i promise you won't be put off by taste if you are you probably eat to much junk. I drink my protien whey un flavoured and i can still put it down, but this chocolate mix is nice."

"Thought I'd be brave and try this in Strawberry, but it tastes far worse than I was expecting and I'm going to have to throw the rest out :( (I'm probably being a wimp though!)\n\nI'd recommend first timers buy only a kg for a first time until you are sure you can drink it, or maybe buy Total Protein formula (which is very nice in chocolate), and some HMB capsules instead."

"Having bought 2kg nearly a year ago, I just bring myself to drink this very often. The taste is terrible you almost gag on it. I am sure it works but you need a very strong flavour to mask the basic taste."

I haven't been able to take this due to the taste. I'm sure it's effective if you can stomach it though.

"Bedtime EX dodnt mix well as it was very gritty! and i couldnt finish a full serving as the taste was awful! I could only ever manage about half a serving, due to the taste and the gritty-ness! not for me!!"

have been mixing in shaked with milk and leaving to settle for 10 mins and had no problem with mixability or taste.\n\nas for product hard to tell as only using week and a half but have felt good at gym and maybe not so hungry first thing in morning. also think i've maintained weight whilst losing fat - although this could be down to other training and diet too.\n\nso happy with taste and ingredients etc. and would recommend as much better value then other 'brand names' equivalents.

"I dont mind the taste,it does not mix great but i think thats nitpicking for what is such a great product. end of the day it works and works well and for that price i shall be re ordring this for a long time to come."