UPDATED May 11, 2008There are so many products on the market claiming health benefits, immune system boosting and antioxidant prowess that it’s difficult to know how to make sense of it all. Here’s a no-nonsense summary of Best Practices for building an arsenal of healthy herbal and supplemental products. It’s not a complete list, by any means, and it does not cover food, but it's a good foundation for any health-oriented kitchen.
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Amazing Grass is not one of the most robust formulas on the market. It consists mostly of grasses, which are good, but should not dominate a green drink mixture because they don’t offer as much nutrition as some other botanicals. Get a complete review here with detailed ingredients and comparisons with other products.
Green Vibrance is an excellent formulation of spirulina, grasses and vegetable powders and it includes a nice selection of “extra botanicals” including bee pollen, ginko biloba, green tea extract, and Astragalus. Check out this review for more information, pros and cons, and comparisons with other green drinks on the market.
A good green drink is made from freeze-dried plants and vegetables (and often fruit or fruit juices) and is actually a food product — not a supplement, like a vitamin or mineral supplement. Green drinks are basically food in concentrated, powdered form. The best ones use organic ingredients and combine a variety of food sources. This article gives you a good first-look at the booming green drink market and helps you make sense of the products and ingredients in them.
The health benefits of spirulina were not discovered at Klamath Lake in Oregon, but some of the first companies to offer spirulina products, under the name of “Blue Green Algae” came from this unique location. That was back in the late 70s and early 80s. Since then, companies have been raided by the FDA for “false claims” and other companies have sprouted up around the edge of the lake. Now there are four or five companies wild harvesting the algae from the lake for sale directly to consumers, through health food stores, or through network marketing structures.
