You may suppose that is an odd query to ask somebody, however when you’ve got been shopping for most greens powders with substances resembling wheatgrass, barley grass, and alfalfa, you have been consuming cow meals.
However aren’t these greens tremendous nutritious? Whereas they’ve a little bit of diet, they’re in these greens powders as a result of they’re tremendous cheap to develop and produce. This enables corporations to make giant tubs of powders for subsequent to nothing and have big revenue margins.
Extra nutrient-dense vegetation like lacinato (dinosaur) kale, Swiss chard, spinach, collard greens, and mustard greens have extra nutrient density than grass however are way more costly, so it is extra worthwhile to refill the tubs with grass and only a tiny pinch of the extra nutrient-dense inexperienced meals.
Whereas cows love the style of grass, most individuals do not. That is why most inexperienced powders are stuffed with questionable sweeteners and flavorings (synthetic and “pure”) to cowl up the grassy style.
As well as, most inexperienced powders are spray-dried, or dried at excessive temperatures, which may result in an off style and a big lack of the dietary worth of the meals. This may harm the greens, after which corporations want so as to add emulsifiers, resembling lecithin (typically extracted with hexane and acetone), to make the powder combine simpler.
Search for greens powders with out added sweeteners or flavorings (“pure” flavorings will not be pure) which can be dried at low temperatures, below 120 levels.
Most greens powders add fillers like FOS, Inulin, flax, and pectin. Whereas they might declare advantages from these substances, they’re simply low-cost fillers that enable the businesses to make use of far fewer inexperienced meals, enormously growing their earnings. Search for greens powders freed from fillers and that solely comprise inexperienced meals.
Simplicity is finest for inexperienced meals powders, however sadly, most producers have determined that advertising is extra vital than making an excellent product.
Many merchandise comprise twenty or extra substances. One well-liked model has over fifty substances. Whereas this may occasionally look good on the label, the quantities of practically all substances are too low to be useful or have any impact. That is an instance of a typical apply within the complement business known as fairy dusting. Whereas it’s glorious for advertising functions, it is only a waste of cash for the individuals buying it.
Search for greens powders with solely a handful of substances to make sure you get sufficient of every to profit. Your well being is just too vital to depart as much as the advertising departments of big-name corporations like Nestle.
Have you learnt the place the entire substances in your inexperienced meals come from? I am not speaking concerning the nation of origin however the precise farms. Each nation has good and dangerous farms, so understanding the place the substances are grown is essential.
One of the best greens powder producers inform you the place every ingredient comes from, proper all the way down to the farm. Try our Farm To Bottle Mission to be taught extra concerning the significance of understanding the place all of the substances in your dietary supplements come from. An organization needs to be pleased with its sources, not attempt to cover them.
Most corporations don’t develop or produce their substances. They purchase bulk powders from middlemen. These middlemen typically mix substances from numerous suppliers in many various locations, making it not possible to know the place the substances come from or how they had been grown.
Search for greens powders from corporations that develop their greens in addition to dry and produce the merchandise themselves or, on the very least, supply their substances instantly from the farmers, not from middlemen.
The standard of the substances issues enormously. Many corporations use previous, yellow, and brown leaves that lack dietary worth however are low-cost and nice for advertising and earnings. It doesn’t matter if the substances don’t have any actual worth left; they will nonetheless be listed as an ingredient on the label.
One other frequent apply is to make use of generally discarded components like stems, which have little or no dietary worth, however utilizing simply the stems may be very worthwhile and provides a number of bulk. Firms can nonetheless checklist Swiss chard as an ingredient, even when they use the stems and not one of the leaves. Nevertheless, the customer is the one who pays the penalty as a result of they acquired a greens powder with no dietary worth.
You need your greens powder to be made with freshly harvested greens with out the stems, that are processed and dried inside hours of harvesting to have the best dietary worth.
Gentle is the enemy of most vitamins. Gentle causes a lack of dietary worth. Greens powders needs to be packaged in darkish glass to stop the lack of important vitamins and compounds. Plus, packaging in glass means much less plastic, which is superb!
We’re very excited to announce the launch of Greens With out The Grass! It represents the following evolution of inexperienced meals powders.
We grew bored with seeing inexperienced merchandise filled with grass, fillers, sweeteners, and flavorings. We had been sick of corporations refusing to inform us the place the substances got here from. We wished one thing higher.
Collectively, we develop, course of, dry, and package deal these unimaginable inexperienced meals on the farm in Saugerties, New York.
All of the inexperienced meals used within the merchandise are grown utilizing regenerative agriculture on The Lone Duck Farm. Darkish, nutrient-rich soil is consistently enriched with compost produced from the farm’s animals, not artificial or petroleum-derived fertilizers. This produces greens with unimaginable nutrient density, excess of what you get on the grocery retailer.
No artificial herbicides, pesticides, or fungicides are ever used, and each ingredient is non-GMO. It’s genuinely a past natural farm.
Inside twenty-four hours of being harvested, the greens are washed, and hand lower to take away particles, stems, and leaves that don’t meet our strict requirements. The pleasant farm goats eat all of the non-usable components, so nothing is wasted!
The greens are then low-temperature air-dried, below 115 levels, to protect the nutrient and enzyme content material. They’re then milled right into a nice powder and packaged in darkish glass jars with metallic lids.
Not like most inexperienced powders, which style like a freshly mowed garden or cowl up the style with sweeteners and flavorings, Greens With out The Grass merchandise style contemporary and vibrant, with grassiness or grittiness. One heaping teaspoon provides a complete serving of darkish, leafy inexperienced greens.
They combine simply into smoothies or different drinks with out emulsifiers like lecithin. You too can bake with them or add them to sauces to simply up the dietary content material.
They’re the simplest method to get your greens day-after-day with out cooking or cleansing up. Plus, not like these greens and containers of spring combine sitting at the back of your fridge ready to be thrown away, Greens With out The Grass powders will final for over a 12 months in your cupboard, offered they’re saved cool and dry.
When you have any questions on our Greens With out The Grass merchandise, electronic mail us at [email protected], and we’d be joyful to assist.
