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Well, I try not to use supplements when I can go for real food, so I wouldn't know which protein powder is more effective.. I enjoy peas even though I don't eat them often. The foods I mentioned were examples of cheap protein sources. Vital wheat gluten (which is actually an ingredient for meals) is more than 4 times cheaper than pea protein powder in my area and roughly the same amount of amino-acids. All the rest of the nutrients (and the amino-acids it has on lower concentrations) gluten doesn't have and may exist in a pea protein powder supplement, exist in the rest of the options I mentioned :-)