Organic Superfood Reds

The red side of the Greens Plus range. Where the Organic Superfood powders are built on grasses and sea vegetables, Reds is built on red fruit and root: pomegranate, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, cranberry, acerola and acai, with nopal and aloe vera.

Alongside them sit 1,100 mg of organic red beet root, grape and apple polyphenols, more than four grams of organic acacia fibre with a digestive enzyme blend, and a phyto-endurance blend of eleuthero, mushroom mycelium, maca and dulse.

Take it on its own, or alongside a greens powder. It is naturally flavoured beet berry, sweetened only with organic stevia leaf, and it contains no green grasses — this is the red blend.

• 30 servings — 8.46 oz (240 g)
• Certified organic, non-GMO and vegan
• Soy free, dairy free and gluten free

This is more than just a fruit blend. A few things worth knowing about what is in it:

• Instead of including 900 mg of one single red superfood, this powder includes a wide variety of red superfoods (from beets and strawberries to pomegranates and acai berries). Why? To provide a well-rounded, nutrient-dense blend. All fruit is not the same; each fruit has a different nutrient profile to offer. Variety is a fundamental principle for a healthy diet because it helps provide a larger, more diverse nutrient profile.
• This powder includes a digestive blend of fiber and digestive enzymes. One of the fibers - organic acacia fiber - has been shown in human studies to be an effective prebiotic for supporting populations of the beneficial gut bacteria Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. 1 Prebiotics are essentially food for healthy gut bacteria, supporting their growth and activity in the gut.
• A Greens Plus Organic Phyto-Endurance blend: This is a plant-based endurance and performance blend to help sustain energy, including the adaptogens maca, holy basil, and eleuthero (also known as Siberian ginseng) and sea vegetables (a red algae known as dulse). In one well-conducted study, eleuthero supplementation improved endurance in recreational athletes. 2 Dulse algae studies show anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity in this sea vegetable. 3,4 A recent 2017 review of 24 studies showed that holy basil supplementation can be a safe way to help the body cope with psychological stress. 7 Use Organic Superfood Reds in your pre or post-workout smoothie to maximize the advantage of the phyto-endurance blend.
• A Greens Plus Organic Nitro Blend: Nitric oxide is a gas the body makes from dietary nitrates, and it plays a role in normal blood vessel function. When humans eat sources of dietarynitrate, the body can convert it to NO. Our Nitro Blend has a vegetable classified as very high in dietary nitrates - beetroot powder. 6
• This powder is free of artificial flavors, artificial coloring, and artificial sweeteners, all of which contribute to added stress on the gut and body overall. There are no added sugars. A subtle, natural sweetness is provided by organic stevia leaf extract.
• A list of top scoring foods on the ORAC scale, including raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and beets.

References:
1. Calame, W. Weseler, A. Viebke, C., Flynn, C., & Siemensma, A. (2008). Gum arabic
establishes prebiotic functionality in healthy human volunteers in a dose-dependent manner. British Journal of Nutrition, 100(6), 1269-1275. Doi: 10.1017/S0007114508981447
2. Kuo, J., Chen, K. W., Cheng, I. S., Tsai, P. H., Lu, Y. J., & Lee, N. Y. (2010). The effect of eight weeks of supplementation with Eleutherococcus senticosus on endurance capacity and metabolism in human. The Chinese journal of physiology, 53(2), 105–111. https://doi.org/10.4077/cjp.2010.amk018
3. Yuan YV, Bone DE, Carrington MF. Antioxidant activity of dulse (Palmaria palmata) extract evaluated in vitro. Food Chemistry. 2005 Jul;91(3):485-494. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2004.04.039.
4. Millan-Linares, M. C., Martin, M. E., Rodriguez, N. M., Toscano, R., Claro, C., Bermudez, B., Pedroche, J., Millan, F., & Montserrat-de la Paz, S. (2019). Nutraceutical Extract from Dulse (Palmaria palmata L.) Inhibits Primary Human Neutrophil Activation. Marine drugs, 17(11), 610. https://doi.org/10.3390/md17110610
5. Smeets, E., Mensink, R. P., Hoeks, J., de Vogel-Van den Bosch, J., Hageman, R., & Joris, P. J. (2020). Effects of Beetroot Powder with or without L-Arginine on Postprandial Vascular Endothelial Function: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial with Abdominally Obese Men. Nutrients, 12(11), 3520. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12113520
6. Norman G Hord, Yaoping Tang, Nathan S Bryan, Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 90, Issue 1, July 2009, Pages 1–10, https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.27131
7. Jamshidi N, Cohen MM. The clinical efficacy and safety of tulsi in humans: a systematic review of the literature. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2017;2017:9217567.

Greens Plus Organic Antioxidant Blend (Organic Pomegranate, Organic Blackberry, Organic Strawberry, Organic Nopal, Organic Raspberry, Green Tea Leaf Extract, Organic Acerola, Organic Cranberry Fruit Extract, Organic Acai, Organic Aloe Vera Leaf Gel), Greens Plus Organic Nitro Blend (Organic Red Beet Root Extract, Grape Pomace and Apple Skin Polyphenols, Organic Mango Fruit Extract), Greens Plus Organic Digestive Blend (Organic Acacia Fiber, Organic Apple Fiber, Digestive Enzyme Blend — Amylase, Protease, Lactase, Lipase, Cellulase and Invertase), Greens Plus Organic Phyto-Endurance Blend (Organic Eleuthero Root Extract, Organic Mushroom Mycelium Extract, Organic Maca Root Extract, Organic B Vitamin Complex from Organic Guava, Organic Holy Basil and Organic Lemon, Organic Dulse Algae Extract).

Other Ingredients: Organic Flavor, Citric Acid, Organic Rice Hulls and Organic Stevia Leaf Extract.