Last night after spending the evening at a game that was very smokey, and which would normally have wrecked my sinuses and made me feel half ill, I walked away after having consumed a half-serving of Superfood beforehand feeling great–no blocked-up sinuses, no spinning head.
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If you end up leaving most of the poker games you play with your head spinning it may be time to find a new profession =)
Or realize live poker games are for chumps and get some money online. You can make money and do bicep curls at the same time, what’s not to like?
anyway superfood is pretty good but they charge so much for so little of it, it causes me pain to click that order button and I may abstain in the future
You are probably right if comparing it to buying all those fruits and vegies. I am not. I think Biotest is a great company and they produce great products, but I really think the price on this one is steep and they have us.
They do need to work out the fact that is does not dissolve all that well.
Sure, these are “real” fruits and veggies but it is physiologically impossible for your body to absorb this amount of fruits and veggies at one time.
This is the reason we spread the servings out over many meals.
This is going to be expensive piss. Regardless of what anyone says it is NOT possible to absorb this many vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals in one sitting.
If you feel better, that is great, keep taking it, this is just my opinion.
So what they are suggesting here is that Superfood has so many vitamins and minerals it can completely replace fruits and vegetables in ones diet, yet manages to fit into a 5g serving once a day that can conveniently be completely absorbed by your body. lol.
I purchase Superfood as well as many other Biotest products, and I like it and like the taste and consume it in my morning shake and pre-bed shake. But anyone seriously talking about replacing vegetables in their diet with a 5g scoop of freeze-dried fruits and vegetables is just being stupid. And anyone who was eating fruit before and no longer is because they think they can get those minerals from their Superfood for less money is even stupider. Have some common sense people.
[quote]Sklander wrote:
Sure, these are “real” fruits and veggies but it is physiologically impossible for your body to absorb this amount of fruits and veggies at one time.
This is the reason we spread the servings out over many meals.
This is going to be expensive piss. Regardless of what anyone says it is NOT possible to absorb this many vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals in one sitting.[/quote]
Are you basing these comments on any real science or are you just making this up?
I think it is a known fact that the body can only absorb ~60gms protein in a sitting. If this is true, which I believe it to have been widely accepted across the nutrition and body building world, why would something like phyto chemicals, vitamin A, etc be any different?
There is an upper limit to everything in the body. Once something, say vitamin A, is at that point it is either going to be rid of through waste or stored.
If this, in fact, gave you 12 servings of fruits and vegetables in a 5 gm scoop don’t you think it would be on every headline news station as well as news paper and magazine? You CANNOT replace real foods with supplements.
[quote]Sklander wrote:
I think it is a known fact that the body can only absorb ~60gms protein in a sitting. If this is true, which I believe it to have been widely accepted across the nutrition and body building world, why would something like phyto chemicals, vitamin A, etc be any different?
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wow, for a second I thought you were being sarcastic, then I realized you weren’t.
please point me in the direction of where you found this “credible” information.
and since the body “can absorb 60g protein”, why can’t it “absorb” 5 grams worth of powdered food?
think about it.
again, no one in this thread is saying to replace real food with supplements. why is this still being brought up?
[quote]Sklander wrote:
I think it is a known fact that the body can only absorb ~60gms protein in a sitting.[/quote]
Known by whom?
I’ve never seen anything credible to substantiate such a statement.
[quote]Sklander wrote:
If this, in fact, gave you 12 servings of fruits and vegetables in a 5 gm scoop don’t you think it would be on every headline news station as well as news paper and magazine? You CANNOT replace real foods with supplements. [/quote]
Please show me one place where someone has suggested that Superfood replace one’s fruit and/or vegetable intake.
We take many concentrated nutrients and they are for the most part absorbed just fine. Unless you can demonstrate otherwise, I think it’s silly to suggest that we’re not able to absorb the nutrients in freeze dried fruits and vegetables.
However, even if you still think the sky is falling, you can just take a half serving at a time.
I’m not going to argue with you about Superfood. It isn’t like eating real fruits and vegetables. If you want to replace your diet with this fine, go ahead. What do I care? Keep believing what everyone tells you instead of doing research for yourself.
[quote]Sklander wrote:
I’m not going to argue with you about superfood. It isn’t like eating real fruits and vegetables. If you want to replace your diet with this fine, go ahead. What do I care? Keep believing what everyone tells you instead of doing research for yourself.[/quote]
So, does this mean that you have just been making up your prior claims?
[quote]Sklander wrote:
I’m not going to argue with you about superfood. It isn’t like eating real fruits and vegetables. If you want to replace your diet with this fine, go ahead. What do I care? Keep believing what everyone tells you instead of doing research for yourself.[/quote]
Can we agree on that you finally butchered that strawman?
My 2 cents
TC mentioned that there are no carbs in the stuff, that they are eliminated in the freeze drying…but if all freeze drying does is remove water…then the nutritional composition remains the same, right? so it does everything in the same proportion and so its nutritonal info is the aggregate of the foods in it??
sorry i needed to think my way through this and try n figure out the carb/fibre content for AD purposes.
Honestly, I’m mainly interested in Superfood for its polyphenol/phytonutrient content. The vitamins and minerals are important too, but its the polyphenols (antioxidants) i’m after.
Secondly, some of us are getting too caught up in the word"supplement". Superfood IS fruits and vegetables–minus the fiber. The freeze drying preserves essentially 100% of the vit., mineral, and phytochemical content. There is NO reason I know of to believe that the human body can not absorb the vit., mineral, or especially, the phytochemical content of 5-6 (or 10-12) servings of fruit or vegetables at one time. Could there be elements in fresh fruit and vegetables not present in Superfood? Of course, but to think of Superfood as ESSENTIALLY different from “real” fruit and vegetables is nonsense.
Does this mean give up eating fresh fruits and vegetables? I think we’re all smarter than that here! However, the reality is that Superfood provides a convenient way to significantly increase an important class of nutients in one’s diet–namely, antioxidant polyphenols. Even if one could consistently eat this amount of fruit and vegetables every day, it would be practically impossible to eat this VARIETY of fruits and vegetables every day.
Superfood should be thought of as an engineered food.