50.7g of Protein Per 100g: How to Read a Lab Certificate — Ours
Most people never read supplement labels, because most labels were never written to be read. Ours was. AMAA is a lab-tested protein powder, and the certificate behind it is public on this website — so this post does something unusual for a brand: it teaches you to read our own evidence, line by line.
One thing first, because it trips everyone up. Lab certificates report nutrients per 100g of product. Your scoop is 50g. So every number below appears twice: the certificate figure, and what actually lands in your shaker — exactly half. Learn that one conversion and you can audit any food label in Nigeria, not just ours.
The protein: 50.7g per 100g
In your scoop: 25.4g. Measured by the Kjeldahl method — the internationally accepted gold standard for protein determination — at a NAFDAC-licensed laboratory in Lagos.
Context makes the number mean something. The FAO’s recommended daily minimum is 53.8g of protein per person. One scoop of AMAA covers nearly half of that. And because soybean anchors the formula — one of the few complete plant proteins — with six complementary seeds around it, the blend supplies all nine essential amino acids your body cannot make itself. Quantity and quality, on one certificate.
The fibre: 14.6g per 100g
In your scoop: 7.3g. This is the number that most separates a whole-food protein from an isolate — whey contains none, because processing removes it.
Fibre supports digestion, feeds the gut bacteria that increasingly appear central to overall health, and slows the release of energy from a meal — which is why a whole-food shake holds you steady where an isolate spikes and drops you. Most Nigerian adults fall short of recommended daily fibre. A protein product that closes part of that gap at the same time is doing two jobs for one scoop.
The iron: 79.1mg per 100g — read this one carefully
In your scoop: 39.6mg. This is the most striking figure on our certificate, and the one we most want you to understand properly rather than just admire.
Iron supports oxygen transport in the blood — it is the difference between energy that lasts and fatigue that lingers, and iron shortfall is especially common among Nigerian women. Against an adult recommended daily intake of roughly 14–18mg, 39.6mg in a single serving is a genuinely unusual number for any food product. It comes from the seeds themselves, pumpkin seed especially. Nothing was fortified or added.
Now the honest part, because a number this size deserves scrutiny. Iron from plants is non-heme iron, which the body absorbs at a lower rate than the heme iron in meat — typically a fraction of what is consumed, with absorption rising when your body’s stores are low and when vitamin C is present. That is precisely why a high figure matters: when absorption is modest by nature, arriving with a lot is the point. Practical tip from the nutritionist’s side of this desk: blend your scoop with orange, pineapple, or other vitamin-C-rich fruit and you meaningfully improve what your body takes up.
We would rather teach you to interrogate our best number than have you accept it blindly. That is what the certificate is for.
The rest of the eighteen
The certificate lists eighteen nutrients in total. The ones worth knowing by name, per scoop: 649mg of potassium, which supports fluid balance and muscle function — including the most important muscle, the heart. 136mg of magnesium, involved in hundreds of enzymatic processes, from muscle recovery to sleep quality. 159mg of calcium for bone maintenance. Zinc for immune function and repair.
And three numbers whose value is being small: zero trans fat, zero cholesterol, and 1.9g of sugar per 100g — under one gram per scoop. In a market where “chocolate-flavoured protein” often means a dessert with a gym label, that last figure is the quiet one to check on any competitor’s tub. If they publish it at all.
Why we publish everything
Several reformulations. Multiple rounds of independent testing. NAFDAC registration and approval. We did not do that so the results could sit in a drawer. Every number in this post traces to a certificate you can open, from a laboratory we do not own, produced by a method you can look up. That is the entire brand: not trust us — check us.
The next time any supplement makes you a promise, ask for its version of this post. The ones who have it will show you. The ones who do not will change the subject.
The standing notes: AMAA contains almond and groundnut — account for nut allergies. For children, pregnancy, or any medical condition — including any condition affecting iron levels — a healthcare professional should guide how AMAA fits your diet.
— The AMAA Team 🌱
Made in Lagos. Built for Nigeria.