Greens Plus

Greens Plus has made superfood powder since 1989, so here is the honest version. A scoop of greens weighs 8 to 10 grams. A serving of vegetables weighs a hundred grams or more. No powder replaces the plate, and any brand that tells you otherwise is selling you the front of the tub. What a powder can do is narrow a gap that is real. About 1 in 10 US adults meets the vegetable recommendation. About 5% reach the 28 gram fiber Daily Value. This account reads labels for a living. Ours included. blog.greensplus.com

There is a ceiling on vitamin C, and most high-dose products are sold above it. The recommended intake is 90 mg a day for adult men and 75 mg for adult women. Plasma is close to saturated somewhere around 200 to 400 mg a day. Above that, absorption efficiency falls and most of what you swallow leaves in urine. We sell a Camu Camu product. It is still true that a 1,000 mg dose is not eleven times better than a 90 mg one, and nobody selling vitamin C should pretend otherwise. Where the interesting evidence sits is not at the top of the dose curve. It is in whether you are anywhere near the bottom of it. blog.greensplus.com/vitamin-…

The best selling Greens Plus product is not a greens powder. It is the +PlusBar Energy Chocolate. The Natural bar is second. Both outsell every powder we make. We have spent most of thirty-seven years being known for a tub, and the thing people reorder most is a 2 oz bar made from organic dates, organic almonds and dark chocolate, with 8 g of protein and 7 g of fiber. There is a lesson in that we keep relearning. People do not want a supplement. They want the thing they will actually eat on a Tuesday.

We sell four certified organic powders, so take this as it is meant. Organic certification delivers a few real, measurable things: fewer pesticide residues, lower cadmium, and a farming system with its own environmental rules. It does not deliver most of what it gets credited for. It is not a nutrition claim. It is not a safety guarantee. It is a set of production rules with an audit attached. That is worth paying for on some foods and not others, and the honest version of the advice depends on which food you are holding, not on a sticker. Under USDA labeling, "100 percent organic" means exactly that. "Organic" and "made with organic" mean less. Those three phrases are not synonyms, and they are all on shelves. blog.greensplus.com/8-foods-…

If you only track one body measurement, waist-to-height beats BMI, and it needs a tape measure and no equipment. Divide your waist circumference by your height. Above 0.5 is where risk starts to rise. The 0.5 boundary was arrived at independently by groups in Japan and the UK during the 1990s, and both landed on the same number. Ashwell and Cole formalised it in 1996 as a proxy for central adiposity, validated against abdominal imaging. The underlying observation is much older. Jean Vague noticed in the 1940s and 1950s that fat carried around the abdomen behaved differently from fat carried on the hips and thighs. BMI cannot see that distinction. A tape measure can. blog.greensplus.com/waist-to…

Camu camu really is extraordinary on vitamin C. Published figures for the fresh pulp run from roughly 800 to 6,100 mg per 100 grams, against about 53 mg in a raw orange. Now read that range again. The top figure is nearly eight times the bottom one. A 2026 population-genetics survey of wild Peruvian stands describes a species still largely gathered from the wild rather than farmed, which is exactly why the number moves so much. So the honest claim is a range, not a headline figure. And the more interesting evidence is not about the vitamin C at all. It is about the polyphenols that travel with it. blog.greensplus.com/camu-cam…

"Whole food" nutrients are not automatically better absorbed than isolated ones, and for three of them the opposite is true. For folate, B12 and vitamin K1, the isolated form is absorbed better than the food form. That cuts directly against how whole-food supplement brands, including this category, usually argue. There are good reasons to prefer food-derived nutrients. Superior absorption across the board is not one of them, and a label that implies it is overselling. The honest position is narrower and more useful: it depends on the nutrient, and the label should tell you which form you are getting. blog.greensplus.com/natural-…

If you are trying to get a child to eat vegetables, the useful number is 10. AAP guidance says it can take as many as 10 or more times tasting a food before a toddler's taste buds accept it. The unit is a taste, not a portion, not a cleared plate. A 2020 Cochrane review of interventions in children aged five and under pulled together 80 randomized trials and 12,965 participants, and the effects of most single tactics are modest. Repetition and availability do more than persuasion. For scale: WHO sets 250 g of fruit and vegetables a day for ages 2 to 5, and 350 g for ages 6 to 9, against 400 g for everyone over 10. No powder fixes this, ours included. Repetition does. blog.greensplus.com/kids-and…

An older version of our own probiotics article claimed that probiotic cultures produce a natural antibiotic effect, prevent infection by named pathogens, and manufacture B12 in the gut. We took it down, because the evidence does not support any of the three. Here is what actually matters with probiotics, and it is unglamorous. Evidence attaches to a strain, not to a species and certainly not to the word probiotic. Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG. Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745. The letters and numbers on the end are the part that was studied. If a label gives you a genus and a species and no strain designation, it is not telling you which research it is borrowing. blog.greensplus.com/probioti…

"Gluten-free" is one of the few label claims in the US with a hard legal definition behind it. FDA published the final rule on 2 August 2013, with compliance required from 5 August 2014. It is codified at 21 CFR 101.91. The food has to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten, and three further conditions have to be met as well. Which means the claim is testable, unlike most of what appears on a front panel. Worth knowing for our own products: a certified gluten-free cereal grass is a grass certified below that threshold, which is a laboratory result, not a marketing decision. blog.greensplus.com/gluten-f…

A lot of brands would tell you the formula has not changed since 1989. Ours has. Greens Plus dates its start to 1989. The formula was created by Sam Graci across the second half of the 1980s, and more than a million people have taken it since. It has been refined in that time. Ingredients have improved, sourcing has changed, and the blend is better than the one that launched. Saying otherwise would be a nicer sentence and a false one. Thirty-seven years is not an argument that nothing needed fixing. It is an argument that somebody stayed long enough to keep fixing it. blog.greensplus.com/the-gree…

Barley grass, wheat grass and alfalfa are the oldest ingredients in this category and the least precisely described. They are harvested young, at roughly 20 to 30 cm and 10 to 14 days old, before the plant puts its energy into seed. That part is real and it is why the nutrient profile differs from the grain. The part to hold loosely: the published composition figures wobble a lot between sources. One compilation puts dried barley grass at around 570 micrograms of vitamin K and 24,962 IU of beta carotene per 100 g. Another source will give you a different number. Growing conditions, harvest timing and drying all move it. So treat any precise micronutrient claim about cereal grass as an estimate, including on our label. blog.greensplus.com/cereal-g…

Before you read an energy bar label, answer one question: what is the bar for. A bar eaten during endurance exercise has almost nothing in common with a bar eaten at 3pm because lunch was too small. They should not have the same macros, and most brands sell you the same bar for both. On the protein number specifically. Past a total intake of about 1.62 g per kg of body weight per day, more protein produced no further gain in fat-free mass. If your daily total is already adequate, the extra 20 grams on the front of the wrapper is mostly extra calories. We sell bars. This is still the right way to shop for one. blog.greensplus.com/energy-b…

Most green smoothies fail for one reason: one component crowds out the others. The fix is a ratio, not a recipe. Greens, 1 to 2 cups packed. Bulk and most of the fiber. Fruit, 1 to 1.5 cups. Sweetness and body. Freeze it for texture. Liquid, three quarters to 1 cup. Sets the thickness and lets the blade catch. Fat, 1 to 2 tablespoons. Avocado, nut butter, chia. Protein, optional, 15 to 25 g. This is what turns a snack into a meal. Load in order: liquid and soft greens first, frozen and hard items last. Frozen banana dumped on dry kale is how blenders stall. Two cups of greens and a cup of fruit contribute real grams of fiber. Juice the same produce and they contribute close to none. blog.greensplus.com/green-sm…

Chlorella is sold on its cell wall. Broken, cracked, pulverised. The word changes, the promise does not. What the composition actually shows: roughly 59% protein, 17% carbohydrate of which more than 65% is cell wall fiber, and 11% fat. A 10 gram serving of pure chlorella gives about 5.9 g of protein. The part that rarely makes the marketing: the micronutrient figures are strain and pond dependent, not label-grade constants. That includes the B12 numbers people quote most confidently. And chlorella carries enough vitamin K to matter if you take warfarin. That is a conversation with your doctor, not with a tub. One more honest note. Trial doses of chlorella are higher than what any multi-ingredient blend delivers in a scoop. Ours too. blog.greensplus.com/chlorell…

US labeling rules let a manufacturer group ingredients into a "proprietary blend" and disclose only the total weight of the blend, never the amount of anything inside it. That is 21 CFR 101.36(c). It is entirely legal. So when a tub advertises 25 ingredients inside 2,000 mg, most of them are there for the label, not for you. A serving of greens powder weighs 8 to 10 grams. There is no room in it for 25 meaningful doses. Three things to check before you buy anything in this category, ours included. Are amounts given per ingredient in milligrams, or only as a blend total. Where your ingredient sits in the list, because they are ordered by weight. Whether the certification on the front certifies the product or the factory. Those are different claims. blog.greensplus.com/how-to-c…

Spirulina does not supply vitamin B12. What labels count is pseudocobalamin, an inactive analogue. What it does do: 20 trials show consistent drops in LDL, total cholesterol and triglycerides, at 2 to 4.5 g a day. Most blends carry under 2 g. blog.greensplus.com/spirulin…

Only about 1 in 10 US adults hits the vegetable recommendation. That is the real case for a greens powder. Not detox, not alkalinity. What the trials actually show, and the lead contamination problem this category rarely mentions: blog.greensplus.com/why-do-i…

Why settle for less when you can have the best? Most superfood powders out there? They're like a new app that everyone talks about but barely works. Greens Plus? It's the original, the one that's been fueling peak performance since 1989. • Taste: Not just good, but the best. No grit, just pure, delicious energy. • Quality: We don't just meet standards; we set them. Organic, non-GMO, and packed with real nutrients. • Cost: Why pay more for less? Our superfood bars and powders give you more bang for your buck compared to flashy newcomers like AG1. You're not just choosing a supplement; you're choosing a lifestyle. One that pushes you out of the comfort zone of mediocrity into the realm of true health and peak performance. Don't be fooled by marketing hype. Real health comes from real food. Greens Plus isn't just about adding years to your life, but life to your years. Make the smart choice. Fuel your ambition, not just your body. Choose Greens Plus. #PeakPerformance #HealthRevolution #GreensPlus