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Why does whey protein powder need to be kosher certified? 💪

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good day everybody today we're going to talk about whey protein powder especially those of you who are bodybuilders or interested in drinking healthy drinks whey protein powder is probably something you're aware of let's talk about what the kosher concerns might be with it whey protein powder comes from whey you'll remember from your friend Little Miss Muffet whey is the product of cheese production you'll take milk you'll add a coagulant to it that will split the curds from the way remember Little Miss Muffet eating her curds in way she was eating cheese and probably like a cot of cheese and what you would do is you put the coagulant in there that would split the solid particles and make them curvs which you would then separate into cheese production the liquid part is called whey and from that whey our whey powder is made once you've started the process of making cheese and split the curds from the way the Whey water is then filtered in order to remove as much of the other stuff that we don't need for wheight powder from it that concentrate is then sent to a dehydrating facility where they're going to turn turn that concentrated wheight concentrate whe protein concentrate into a whe powder which is then going to be sifted refined things like that for our purposes you would think it's pretty simple right it's just milk that's literally all whey powder is is just byproducts of cheese production in this milk but you have to remember that because it's a byproduct of cheese production that means if the cheese production that was coming from wasn't kosher you potentially have issues because the rabbi wasn't involved in the cheese making process that could potentially we