Recommended Products
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Delicious Greens 8000 - Original Flavor
This is the best tasting (and costing) of all the greens products I have tried. Normally with food product, lower price would imply lower quality, but in the case of Delicious Greens 8000 it is due to the high volume of the products they sell. This product was originally popularized in a TV infomercial, which set the price point fairly low but produced an enormous number of sales. It is all organic and a consistently high quality product. This product is perfect for the person on a budget or for someone that just can't stomach the more "hardcore" greens products. It works just as well and in all of my experience recommending it to people it has always shown immediate positive results. Personally I go through one container about every 3 days, but the average green dieter would probably need about one every 1-2 weeks or so unless you're doing a cleanse.
Click Here to see Ingredients with some abbreviated explanations of each.
Click Here to see Ingredients with some abbreviated explanations of each.
Delicious Greens 8000 - Berry Flavor
Just like the Original Flavor shown above, this is another great tasting option with most of the essentials for your body. Both of the Delicious Greens products win by a fair margin in the taste and price category, and I personally find them to be a great option to make sure you always have greens around.
Green Vibrance by Vibrant Health
These are by far the most comprehensive greens I have found. They are priced well (link is for family size which is 2.5 times the volume of delicious greens) but the taste doesn't seem to agree with everyone (think wheatgrass). After you've re-trained your taste buds to crave alkaline foods a bit more, you'll realize that they really aren't too bad at all and might actually start to enjoy them. However, if you are gung-ho about hitting the greens hard and don't care about the comfort of your taste buds, I have found no better bang for your buck. They are, like all greens, also organic and very high quality. If you're looking to make sure there are no gaps in your body's nutrition, throw away your multivitamins and get on board with these.
Click Here for the giant list of ingredients.
Click Here for the giant list of ingredients.
Blender Bottle Sport Mixer
Over the course of the last few years I've carried my greens along with me almost everywhere I go. Originally, I started with a 24 ounce cup and kept a spoon nearby to mix the greens in. I eventually graduated to a few leaky inconvenient models of water bottles. One day I decided to take things seriously and research the subject. I discovered that the Blender Bottle brand makes the highest quality products by far. They don't leak, I regularly drop mine on the floor without it opening, and this new model resists bacteria and eliminates odors (very noticeable difference). It is a little more than double the price of the original Blender Bottle, but you really only need one of these and it's well worth it. In addition to the qualities listed above, it is nice that it is black because you won't have to answer as many questions about the "green goo" that you are drinking, and the finger handle on the top proves to be extremely convenient for bringing this on a hike or even carrying it around the office all day. If you're wondering what the little metal thing is, it is in fact a stainless steel wisk that sits in the bottle and helps break up any chunks that form.
Vitamix 1363 CIA Professional Series, Platinum Blender
This is the king of all blenders. As my blog posts suggest, I don't recommend juicers because you lose 80% of the food, but with this bad boy you won't know the difference. It has 2.5 horsepower (enough to power a jet ski) and is the fastest spinning as well as the slowest spinning blender on the market. These are used by Jamba Juice and Starbucks as well. The main selling point is that the blender has the ability to liquefy nearly anything you put into it. It allows you to mix in seeds, roots, and even grind your own wheatberries to make whole grain bread at home. It spins so fast you can cook soup inside of it in under 5 minutes entirely from the friction of the blades (seriously, I've done it). This is not the only model or configuration that Vitamix makes, but the main differences are the size of the pitcher, and the variable speed options. It will likely set you back two car payments or so, but with a 7 year warranty and hundreds of uses, I am personally convinced that it was one of the smartest purchases I ever made (I did burn up a few other blenders before I went for it). One important point: these are available at Costco for closer to $400, but that version comes with a smaller pitcher (48 oz). I personally bought that version, and found that it is quite difficult and annoying to shove fruits and vegetables into the smaller pitcher, so I would opt for the 64 oz (which costs $149.99 sold separately).
Blendtec Home HP3A FourSide Blender
For years Vitamix dominated the blender market until this guy came along. Personally, I can't say that I own one, but it is about $100 cheaper and there are websites and Youtube videos all over the web comparing the two. It would appear that neither is definitively better than the other because they both do exactly what you want every time you use them. This version has 3 horsepower and a 64 oz container, making it a viable competitor to the Vitamix. The Blendtec comes with programmable settings and their own smart blending mechanism that speeds up and slows down automatically to pull the food down to the blades. While the Blendtec puts up a great fight and is certainly a competitor, consider that the warranty on the motor is only 3 years and you're still looking at a major investment.