Most of the superfood powders you see bloggers recommend don't work! If you don't buy it, you've earned it!

I used to watch supermodels and bloggers show off their bodies and recommend superfoods, and I drank yogurt bowls with fruit and vegetable powders for dinner for a while, but I didn't feel any better, and instead I had a lot of vitamin-deficiency symptoms: more fatigue, lowered resistance, and a heightened inflammatory response, which basically disappeared when I went back to eating vegetables.

Seriously, I began to seriously look up the literature and do my homework on nutritional content, only to realize that some of these superfoods didn't live up to their advertised benefits, some had plenty of cheaper alternatives, and some weren't even good for my health!

With these colorful powder to make a fruit shake, do a yogurt bowl looks very sophisticated, and cater to the contemporary young people in the thermos soak goji berries in the health needs, but in fact there is no need to spend this waste of money. The following combination of the information I found to help you avoid mine a few superfood health rumors.

1. Acai berry powder is nutritious?

Pamela completely brought fire to the acai berry powder, it is rich in anthocyanins, vitamin A, rich in fats (including Omega-3, 6, 9) and famous

Omega-3, 6, 9 is good, but the proportion is more important. The ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 in acai powder is around ?1:13?, however, the ideal ratio is ?1:2? or even higher for good health, so from this point of view, it is better to eat it than not.

Again, anthocyanins, there are countless anthocyanin foods in our lives, there is no need to buy acai powder. With coarse grains of black rice, purple rice, black beans, purple potatoes, fruit mulberry, cranberries, blueberries, grapes and so on alternative, cheap and fresh, does not smell good?

Additionally vitamin A is even more common in pork, chicken, animal offal, all kinds of vegetables, acai berries are not outstanding.

2.? Green juice can replace vegetables?

Green juice is also a regular in supermodel recipes, generally claiming that a spoonful can meet the daily needs of vegetables, but it is important to know that vegetables in home cooking will lose 20% to 70% of the nutrients. That vegetables, in the process of being made into a powder, first lose water-soluble vitamins due to drying, and if they're not freeze-dried, more vitamins are rendered ineffective by the process of heat. What's left at the end is mostly very stable elements: starch, fat, fiber.

So vegetable powders are certainly not a substitute for vegetables, and can at best be used as an emergency supplement. The high price of drinking green juice to supplement the nutrition, not as good as stepping down to fry a leafy green vegetable.

3. Maca powder can improve energy?

Macha powder is generally advertised to increase energy, improve mood and increase fertility. However, there has been a lack of human experimental data on these effects of maca, which are now basically animal experiments, and most of them are still funded by maca companies.

Maca does also contain some nutrients, such as polyphenols, vitamins and magnesium, but there are cheaper and more convenient food sources for all of these, and there's no need to drink moringa powder at all

4.? Drinking oat milk is healthier?

Oat milk has managed to catch fire through perfect marketing and a nice taste. However, it has almost no protein, all the calcium depends on additives, dietary fiber is negligible, the nutritional value and milk can not be compared, sugar is a great.

It can at best be considered an alternative for lactose intolerant people, but it has nothing to do with health.

5. Nut milk instead of cow's milk?

Nut milks like almond milk and cashew milk have also been brought to the forefront by supermodels, yet most nuts, including batanas, cashews, and pistachios, are too high in omega6 and tend to induce inflammation. Milk, although there is also some hormone controversy, but nut milk is not necessarily a better choice.

6.? Eating pomegranate powder for beauty?

Pomegranate seeds have been touted as the "fruit of the face" because of their high vitamin content and, importantly, their natural polyphenol ellagic acid, which does have some preventive and anti-inflammatory potential, as current research suggests

However, pomegranate powder contains only about ?2mg of ellagic acid per serving, and current research suggests that the effective levels are in the range of ?30% to ?30%. The content of ellagic acid is in the range of ?30-850?mg, and other vitamins that are processed into the powder are also retained are minimal, and may be eaten a lonely

If you really want to supplement ellagic acid, why not just buy pomegranate seed capsules, which generally contain more than ?200mg? of ellagic acid, saving money and trouble

7. Maki Berry Powder

Maki Berry is known for its anthocyanins, Navitas (brand name) Maki Berry Powder is labeled as containing ?114mg of anthocyanins

Just now in the Acai Berry Powder, said that there are a lot of anthocyanin-rich foods in our lives, 100g of fresh blueberries have ?400mg of anthocyanins, black rice, black beans have a lot of anthocyanins, and there is no need to buy a high-cost Maki Berry Powder, because there is no need to buy a high-cost Maki Berry Powder. There is no need to buy Maki berry powder at a high price

On the other hand, anthocyanins do have an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect, but the publicity of the eye protection to be doubtful, because at present confirmed that anthocyanin eye protection effect of a number of clinical trials have failed, originating from the anthocyanins can not cross the blood-brain barrier, and even more so, can not talk about the eye protection

Such a similar IQ tax superfoods there are a lot more, they may not necessarily be rich in nutrients, but it must be very expensive. I personally think that most of them are not necessary to buy, even if you buy before you do your homework, in addition to choosing to make the powder process has not gone through the high temperature, because the antioxidant nutrients are very easy to lose, by the light, temperature, air contact is very influential, not accidentally the active substances on the failure to eat, but also have no effect.