I want to purchase a green superfood powder as a supplement and have narrowed my search to two choices:

1. Boku superfood

2. Amazing Grass Green Superfood

Both appear to be outstanding products based upon the research I have done.

Which would you buy and why? Do you have any other alternatives that are in the same class as these two that you would recommend?

I am not really at a place in my life where I can go mix up my own version of superfood ( not enough time nor the desire) so will be purchasing one.

I have used superfood powders in the past, but they were not good enough for me to continue on them. I do not otherwise eat very many veggies in my post op diet so I consider a superfood powder as a good alternative to getting veggies and fruit back into my diet without adding tons of calories ( a goal) or the increasing effort to go track down the equivalent veggies and prepare them for the meals for eating. That's just me and what my eating style has become post op.

I am always skeptical of nutritional supplements and tend to lean toward fresh whenever possible. I'm a HUGE fan of juicing. I have an auger style juicer (Omega 8004/8006) that is FANTASTIC at juicing greens. During my preop, I'd make a Protein shake and then juice up half a pound kale and some ginger and mix it in my Protein Shake along with some chia seeds.

Unfortunately fresh vegetable juices are the very LAST thing, along with citrus and seeds, that I'm allowed to add back in so I can't have any juice for 5 and 1/2 more weeks but just as soon as I can, I'll be adding it back in.

Some will say go with a nutribullet or vitamix and blend.. YUCK. it's just too thick. Blending is great for fruits to make smoothies.. but in my opinion, KALE is not great blended because of all the fiberous parts that makes the blend too thick. So if I wanted to make a smoothie, I'd blend up my fruits to maintain all the good Fiber of the fruit, and then juice up my vegetables to get all the good nutrients out of them and then pour my vegetable juice into my fruit smoothies.... yummilicious.

I am always skeptical of nutritional supplements and tend to lean toward fresh whenever possible. I'm a HUGE fan of juicing. I have an auger style juicer (Omega 8004/8006) that is FANTASTIC at juicing greens. During my preop' date=' I'd make a Protein shake and then juice up half a pound kale and some ginger and mix it in my protein shake along with some chia seeds.

Unfortunately fresh vegetable juices are the very LAST thing, along with citrus and seeds, that I'm allowed to add back in so I can't have any juice for 5 and 1/2 more weeks but just as soon as I can, I'll be adding it back in.

Some will say go with a nutribullet or vitamix and blend.. YUCK. it's just too thick. Blending is great for fruits to make smoothies.. but in my opinion, KALE is not great blended because of all the fiberous parts that makes the blend too thick. So if I wanted to make a smoothie, I'd blend up my fruits to maintain all the good fiber of the fruit, and then juice up my vegetables to get all the good nutrients out of them and then pour my vegetable juice into my fruit smoothies.... yummilicious.[/quote']

Thanks for sharing. You are most likely right in your comments regarding fresh everything. I like powders because of the convenience and cost. Unless you have a good garden, it is hard to gather up all the necessary fruits, veggies and grasses to match what is in a powder. Juicing is just as good as powders, if not better ( do not know, not a juicer) and is another path to the same goal. Keep up the good work. I know you are a new post op, but I have been following your comments for a while. Always thoughtful.

I just order Amazing Greens in two flavors. i hope it tastes better than Green Vibrance.

Mary

I hope you like them! I need a little bit more zest on the Amazing Grass original flavor so add a little desani drop pineapple/coconut flavor. Really does the trick and now it is pretty good to drink. Another lady said adding coconut Water might help. Looks like coconut flavor really helps the grass flavor out; otherwise it is a minty alfalfa grassy taste.

Time to order a new supply of green grass drink. I ordered original flavor last time and it was good for the most part. Does anyone have comments on the other flavors?

Garden of Life Perfect food, all whole foods and garden of life is a very reputable company.

It tastes like crap but I suck it down and rinse with a Protein drink lol.

I am going with the old motto if it tastes bad it must be good for you

A drink can have teaspoon' date=' tablespoon, 1/2,1,2,3, as you like, the liquid state its in makes it so it goes quickly into action, added to that you can mix it with numerous things, Protein drink, blenderized greens and veg's, other superfood, goji, almonds, what have you, add sweetner, agava syrup, a cacoa product and then its taste is better as well.

You would need 6,12,18 capsules to duplicate this at one time. Sorry, I know the taste bugs people, I feel I am set with what I like though the way i do things now.

Just my thinking on it, I am doubting the pills are super duper charged in comparison or something.

heres one I liked as alternatives for thought, http://www.dragonherbs.com/prodinfo.asp?number=686

the site has loads of elixors and extracts, pills, base chinese herbal stuff, not all are my interest, I recently started using Chinese herbals Astragalus Root and India's Gotu Kola finding good results.

Went back and looked at the Amazon Reviews and the company web site on the Tonic Alchemy green drink. I have placed an order for this and see how it compares to Amazing Grass. There are SO many green drink options out there to research. Hopefully, this will be a great experience. No issues with Amazing Grass, but do want to try some other products to find what I interpret as the best alternative. Thanks everyone for your comments so far. This is a constant learning experience as a post op.

Got the Green Tonic Alchemy today from Amazon. Really fast delivery - good. The taste is about the same as Amazing Grass so I added some coconut/pineapple flavoring. Now it went down faster.

Holy cow, this stuff makes you feel good. And more than the energy burst. After 15 minutes, I felt my back inflammation go away. Awesome! This stuff really does have some ant-inflammatory ingredients in it. For this reason alone, it would be worth taking but I also appreciate the energy and quiet alertness that comes from a good green drink.

I also appreciate that it has many different types of fruit in a single scoop. 71 total fruits, vegetables and herbs.

Thanks for the recommendation on this product.

Got the Green Tonic Alchemy today from Amazon. Really fast delivery - good. The taste is about the same as Amazing Grass so I added some coconut/pineapple flavoring. Now it went down faster.

Holy cow' date=' this stuff makes you feel good. And more than the energy burst. After 15 minutes, I felt my back inflammation go away. Awesome! This stuff really does have some ant-inflammatory ingredients in it. For this reason alone, it would be worth taking but I also appreciate the energy and quiet alertness that comes from a good green drink.

I also appreciate that it has many different types of fruit in a single scoop. 71 total fruits, vegetables and herbs.

Thanks for the recommendation on this product.[/quote']

How do you feel this compares with the Amazing Grass? I just ordered the sample pack of Amazing Grass and am waiting for it to arrive. I would be interested in trying this as well. I need to look at the nutrition info though.

How do you feel this compares with the Amazing Grass? I just ordered the sample pack of Amazing Grass and am waiting for it to arrive. I would be interested in trying this as well. I need to look at the nutrition info though.

I find Tonic Alchemy superior to Amazing Grass and am currently on my second bottle of it. Love it! It not only helps me with energy and detox, but also with inflammation issues. 71 different veg, fruit and herbs. Taste is not bad.

Got my sample pack of Amazing grass today and jut tried the original. I mixed it in grape juice (was afraid to try it in just water and figured grape juice has the strongest flavor I could think of) and it was tolerable. Ill try one of the flavors tomorrow.

Got my sample pack of Amazing grass today and jut tried the original. I mixed it in grape juice (was afraid to try it in just Water and figured grape juice has the strongest flavor I could think of) and it was tolerable. Ill try one of the flavors tomorrow.

I bet you will notice a difference in no time!! Energy and "clean" feeling.

I purchased the amazing grass but I'm having a really hard time getting it down in anything..Any suggestions please on the best things to put it in to make it go down easier? Thanks

I purchased the amazing grass but I'm having a really hard time getting it down in anything..Any suggestions please on the best things to put it in to make it go down easier? Thanks

If it is a matter of taste, try mixing the amazing grass with a Water flavor that you like. For example, I mix mine with Dasani coconut / pineapple flavor and it becomes much easier to drink. I have found the Tonic Alchemy flavor is much better then Amazing Grass so does not need any supporting flavor enhancer. Regardless, both are good products.

OK thanks, I will give it a try.

I wasn't able to find Tonic Alchemy on Amazon, but did find it here: http://livesuperfoods.com/tonic-alchemy.html Is this where you ordered it from? Unfortunately it's out of stock, but I would like to try it when they have more.