Pea Protein and Improved Subjective Recovery

• Effect of Plant-Based Proteins on Recovery from Resistance Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Healthy Young Adults-A Systematic Review.

  • 2025-08-07
  • Systematic Review
  • Nutrients 17(15)
  • • Karuppasamy Govindasamy
    • Koulla Parpa
    • Borko Katanic
    • Cain C T Clark
    • Masilamani Elayaraja
    • Ibnu Noufal Kambitta Valappil
    • Corina Dulceanu
    • Vlad Adrian Geantă
    • Gloria Alexandra Tolan
    • Hassane Zouhal

  • PubMed: 40806155
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17152571

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Subjective Recovery

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Adults

  Some studies also reported improvements in subjective recovery outcomes and reductions in muscle damage biomarkers with soy or pea protein

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Dose

  15 to 50 g