I know it doesnt
Personally I’d rather just spend my money on good veggies like kale and spinach.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Personally I’d rather just spend my money on good veggies like kale and spinach.[/quote]
No one that I’m aware has ever suggested that Biotest Superfood be used as a replacement for good vegetables like spinach or kale.
It’s best used as a supplement when you want to increase fruit and vegetable, but are not able to do so through traditional means.
[quote]Mod Brian wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Personally I’d rather just spend my money on good veggies like kale and spinach.[/quote]
No one that I’m aware has ever suggested that Biotest Superfood be used as a replacement for good vegetables like spinach or kale.
It’s best used as a supplement when you want to increase fruit and vegetable, but are not able to do so through traditional means.
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I know it might not have been suggested, but I know that there are people out there that skimp on their fruits and veggies because of the supplements they are taking.
I don’t really think this needs to be said for anyone, but I’ll do it anyway: Superfood is just an addition, and a good one at that, to an otherwise healthy diet. It’s designed so that you can get the benefit of fruits and berries without two important things: A) headache of having to buy a pretty good assortment of fruits and veggies, and have them fresh and on hand in an easy to consume means, and B) any significant amount of carbs.
I’ve heard the negatives of the grasses in many greens drinks, but I’m not really positive about what I think on this topic, so I’ll exit this thread with the comment, that my vote goes to Superfood for it’s much more diverse and tasty (IMO) delivery mechanism than either the alternative of using only fresh (24/7/365) and/or just about any greens drink I know of especially at the price at which it’s set.
So order Superfood post-haste(!) cause although it’s back-ordered at the moment has a ton of stuff in it that kale and spinach don’t.
haven’t tasted Superfood yet, plan on ordering this week actually…as for greens plus, the wild berry flavor isn’t too bad actually…anybody know how these stack up against vitamineral…???
^I really haven’t heard it anywhere but in discussion threads on this site, although I haven’t looked elsewhere. For example in the Superfood product info thread, it says: “(Superfood contains) No allergy-inducing grasses”
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]BulletproofTiger wrote:
I’ve heard the negatives of the grasses in many greens drinks…[/quote]
Can you elaborate, please?[/quote]
I don’t believe the human digestive tract can adequately digest most grasses.
There must be a reason that cows eat grass and people don’t.
Yes: we do not have a cellulase enzyme, nor do the normal flora of our GI tract.
Of course, one could try the idea of taking a probiotic-type supplement which would provide, for example, Bacteroides succinogenes strain S-85.
(Don’t tell Al Gore.)
It might be okay as other Bacteroides species are normal flora, and perhaps (I don’t know) even this one thought not as this strain.
I don’t know whether the product should be called Herbivore Fuel or perhaps Grass To Your Ass.
It could be sold as a combo with whatever greens products include grasses.
1A) Besides the cow digestive system argument, is there or is there not basis to say grasses cause allergies, or is the main issue for most ppl simply a matter of digestion (or lack thereof) of grass?
1B) Could mal-digested particles trigger some sort of mild grade inflamation of the gut and perhaps lead to an allergic response?
2) If the cellulase is removed, a juice like wheatgrass (or if it is in powder form), a freeze dried powder of the juice (in modest doses) could be useful as far as the antioxidants, vitamins, etc?
3) Thoughts on chlorella and broken cell wall chlorella?
1a) There is, though for what percentage of people I don’t know
b) Makes sense and seems likely that this could be so for some
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Yes, but do the grasses have anything valuable that fruits and vegetables do not, or does it provide the same things at lower cost or at greater concentration? Seems unlikely to me, other than lower cost, which has to be the case.
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I don’t have any thoughts on chlorella really.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
1a) There is, though for what percentage of people I don’t know
b) Makes sense and seems likely that this could be so for some
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Yes, but do the grasses have anything valuable that fruits and vegetables do not, or does it provide the same things at lower cost or at greater concentration? Seems unlikely to me, other than lower cost, which has to be the case.
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I don’t have any thoughts on chlorella really.
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Thanks for the reply Bill.
you’re welcome!
I didn’t say that at all.
What I was saying is that any belief of magic alkalinizing or claims for the product in that regard are way, way off track, though I know that quite a number of intelligent and knowledgeable people have been taken in by that.
I’d certainly consider it an earlier-generation product compared to Superfood, though.
If Superfood was less expensive I’d buy it every month…
wink
I think it is one of the best supplements on the planet.
Sea Kelp was on the British news yesterday as the new fat blocker miracle food:
Is kelp a superfood?
[quote]BulletproofTiger wrote:
1A) Besides the cow digestive system argument, is there or is there not basis to say grasses cause allergies, or is the main issue for most ppl simply a matter of digestion (or lack thereof) of grass?
1B) Could mal-digested particles trigger some sort of mild grade inflamation of the gut and perhaps lead to an allergic response?
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YES!
But it is not an allergic response per se because it is not IgE Mediated but IgG mediated.
edit : And in my case “mild” is not the word that I would use.
[quote]Alpha F wrote:
Sea Kelp was on the British news yesterday as the new fat blocker miracle food:
Is kelp a superfood?[/quote]
If a person doesn’t get enough iodine, which isn’t very uncommon, kelp can provide this and depending probably on the degree of deficiency it can make a major difference.