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Green Super Foods

"Practical Insights Into The World Of Natural Healing."

Shopping Tips for the Greener Green Formula

For some time now we’ve been searching the shelves

of health food stores and other sources for the one,

superior, multi-green formula to recommend to

readers of The Doctors Prescription for Healthy

Living and Health Perspectives.

Chlorophyll is found abundantly in select green

foods, such as barley greens, spirulina, chlorella,

and wheat grass.

“These whole food concentrates are densely

packed with thousands of phytonutrients most of

us simply don’t get enough of in our diets,” says

Julian Whitaker, M.D. “For years I’ve recommended

green super foods to my patients and readers.

There’s nothing better than green super foods to

charge up your energy and rinse your immune

system clean of toxins. And because you’re

increasingly exposed to environmental pollutants, I

believe you need more greens than ever in your

daily diet.”

Smart Super Food Shopper

The first thing to do when shopping for a

multi-greens food is to add up the total amount

of actual greens in the product. Typically this

would include the cereal grasses (such as wheat,

barley, and oats), alfalfa, and blue-green algae

species (such as spirulina and chlorella). Then

add dark green land and sea vegetables for their

trace mineral content. These greens are all super

foods. Doesn’t it make sense, then, that these

should be listed as the predominant ingredients

in a green formula?

Smart Shopping Tips

for Selecting a

Quality Green Formula

Keep a sharp eye out

for the overuse of fillers.

Fillers are ingredients in

formulas that are used

either to reduce the cost of

raw materials or to help the

product blend more easily

in liquids. Lecithin, derived

from soy, is a commonly used emulsifying agent

and one of the most common fillers we have

found in inferior green food products. To be sure,

lecithin is a great nutrient with plenty of

phospholipids integral to the structure of brain

cells. It helps to control cholesterol and improve

brain function. But, in the context of a green

super food formula, it should never be the

predominant ingredient. The problem with fillers

is that they can comprise far too much of a

formula, crowding out more beneficial green

foods. Read labels carefully or you may end up

with a product that is more filler than anything

else. Besides lecithin, other ingredients used as

As obvious as this may sound, many

manufacturers and consumers lose sight of a key

shopping guideline: your multi-green formula

should consist primarily of greens. In fact, many

products reviewed by our advisory board listed

lecithin as their number one ingredient.

Ironically, these were

among the most

expensive brands;

yet, they had the

least amount of green foods.

Consider this. Life on earth would

be impossible without chlorophyll,

one of the key phytonutrients in

green foods. It is chlorophyll, the

green pigment of plant leaves

and algae, which engages in

photosynthesis and provides

plants with the ability to turn

sunlight into food.

Health

fillers that you do not want as predominant

ingredients include apple pectin, apple fiber,

brown rice germ, barley malt,

fructooligosaccharides, and bacterial cultures.

Brands listing too many of these as primary

ingredients clearly are not formulas you would

want as your first choice.

be limited. Additionally you don’t want to limit

your greens to simply one green food. Each land

and sea plant brings your body the goodness of

unique antioxidants and other phytonutrients. A

blend of numerous greens is desirable to provide

broad-range nutritional support.

Many manufacturers base their advertising on

the total number of ingredients listed on the

label. Consequently, consumers may believe they

are receiving more for their money. Small

amounts of many different ingredients may look

impressive on the label, but none of these

ingredients is being provided in a high enough

dosage to be of therapeutic value. There’s no

point in consuming a trivial amount of bilberry,

bee pollen, royal jelly, ginseng or ginkgo at

doses which have no physiologic effect. The

typical, miniscule amounts are tiny fractions of

therapeutic dosages. Optimal potency of a few

select ingredients produces optimal results. Keep in

mind, the purpose of a purchasing a green foods

product is to consume more greens!

Be sure to purchase quality concentrates.

Cereal grasses used in green formulas are

typically supplied in a 5:1 concentration. This

means that five grams of raw material are

required to produce one gram of final powdered

extract. But that concentration is far below what

is possible for maximum health benefits. Be sure

the first listed ingredient is a green mixture of at

least a 10:1 concentration, preferably containing

organically grown (without pesticides) cereal

grasses and alfalfa. This means that at least ten

grams of raw material was used to produce one

gram of powdered greens extract. Relative to

other brands that employ 5:1 extracts, that’s

twice as many concentrated greens. And a 15:1

concentrate provides three times the amount of

nutrients from greens of a 5:1 product. It’s hard

to argue with that kind of value.

Seek a wide range of greens.

Besides a 10:1 or greater cereal

grass juice concentration, look for

green formulas that supply blue-

green algae, sea vegetables,

chlorella, and, organic green

vegetables, such as spinach and

parsley. You may also find quality

formulas with plant antioxidants.

Examples of these include rosemary,

green tea, curcumin extract, mixed

carotenoids, acerola juice, and plant

enzymes.

Beware the number of

ingredients.

Do big ingredient lists on dietary

supplement labels impress you?

Don’t be fooled. Quality is an

expensive proposition and to receive

a therapeutic benefit from a few key

ingredients often requires that the

number of ingredients in the formula

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