Kate Farms Standard: Benefits, Downsides, and Taste

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Kate Farms is a brand of organic, plant-based nutrition shakes and tube feeding formulas.

One product in the Kate Farms lineup is called Standard.

This article explains everything you need to know about Kate Farms Standard, discussing its nutrition, benefits, downsides, and more.

What is Kate Farms Standard?

Kate Farms Standard is an organic, plant-based nutrition formula that you can drink or use for tube feeds.

Like all Kate Farms products, Standard is vegan-friendly and free of major food allergens.

The Standard is nutritionally similar to the Peptide formula, but the Standard provides intact or whole pea protein rather than pea protein peptides.

Peptides are smaller chains of amino acids and are more easily digested than whole proteins.

Standard comes in two calorie densities — 1.0 and 1.4 calories per milliliter.

The more calorie-dense 1.4 formula is better suited if you require more calories, struggle with a poor appetite, or have an intolerance to high-volume tube feeds.

The Standard comes in three flavors — Plain, Vanilla, and Chocolate.

Here’s a nutrition breakdown of the Standard 1.0 and 1.4 Chocolate:

	Standard 1.0	Standard 1.4
Calories	325	455
Fat	12 grams	19 grams
Carbs	38 grams	51 grams
Fiber	5 grams	3 grams
Sugar	20 grams	16 grams
Protein	16 grams	20 grams

Both the Standard 1.0 and 1.4 provide similar amounts of vitamins and minerals and a blend of plant-based compounds that provide antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

The Standard formula comes in a reclosable carton that you must refrigerate and use within 24 hours of opening.

It’s best served chilled for drinking as a shake but administered at room temperature for tube feeds.

For tube feeds, it can supplement the diet or be used as the sole source of nutrition.

Benefits

Whether you plan to drink it or use it for tube feeds, Kate Farms Standard offers many benefits.

Hypoallergenic

Standard uses only organic, plant-based ingredients.

It’s free of major food allergens, including milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soy — making it hypoallergenic.

Many nutrition drinks and formulas rely on milk and soy protein, but Standard uses hypoallergenic pea protein, a high-quality source that may offer similar muscle-building effects to milk protein (1).

Standard is also free from artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors, and additives, to which some people may be sensitive.

Nutritious

Standard is a nutritionally-complete formula on which you can rely solely to meet all your nutrition needs.

This makes it suitable if you must get all or some of your nutrition through a tube feed.

You can also drink Standard as a meal replacement, and because it’s reclosable, you can grab it and go.

Standard also provides some fiber from agave inulin to promote gut health and support healthy cholesterol and blood sugar levels.

What’s more, Standard provides extracts from broccoli, green tea, turmeric, tomatoes, blueberries, and cinnamon, among other fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

These extracts are rich in beneficial plant compounds called polyphenols, which offer potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Downsides

The primary downsides of Kate Farms Standards are its high cost and low availability relative to other nutrition formulas.

Cost

Standard costs between $51–$72 per 12-pack case or $4.25–$6.00 per carton.

This cost is much higher than some of its competitors including Ensure and Boost.

However, comparing Kate Farms with its competitors isn’t a fair comparison since Kate Farms relies solely on organic, plant-based ingredients — which aren’t cheap.

Kate Farms also uses no artificial sweeteners, flavors, or additives, which its competitors often do. This also increases costs.

So while Kate Farms is indeed more expensive than its competition, Kate Farms Standard uses more costly ingredients that, depending on your preferences, intolerances, or allergies, may be well worth the price.

Availability

Unlike its competition, Kate Farms Standard isn’t available in big box stores or retail pharmacies.

This may be a downside if you prefer to get your groceries and medications or supplements in one place.

The best place to purchase Kate Farms Standard is directly through their website.

You can also find the formula on Amazon for around the same price.

However, you can get free 2-day shipping by ordering through the Kate Farms website as well as a 10% discount if subscribe to receive recurring orders.

Taste review

Formulating tasty shakes that rely on plant-based ingredients only isn’t easy.

This is especially true for Kate Farms since they rely on pea protein, which many people describe in unflattering terms.

However, in my opinion, Kate Farms does a decent job of reducing the flavor of peas and the other ingredients present.

I tried the Standard 1.4 Chocolate, which has a chocolate-pudding aroma, bold dark chocolate taste, and a grassy aftertaste.

The grassy aftertaste was slightly more prominent than the Kate Farms Chocolate Nutrition Shake.

While I haven’t tried the Standard Vanilla flavor, I have tried Kate Farms Vanilla Nutrition Shake, which has a butterscotch aroma and a vanilla bean taste with a moderate grassy aftertaste.

Because the Vanilla Nutrition Shake is nutritionally similar to the Standard 1.0, I would expect the taste to be as well.

Standard 1.4 provides more calories and fat than the 1.0 so it may have a thicker and creamier texture.

The bottom line

Kate Farms Standard is an organic, plant-based nutrition formula that you can drink or use for tube feeds.

It comes in two calorie densities — 1.0 and 1.4. The more calorie-dense 1.4 is better suited if you have higher calorie needs, struggle with a poor appetite, or tolerate low-volume tube feeds better.

Standard is nutritious and hypoallergenic, but it can be costly with lower availability than its competitors.