Antioxidant Fruit and Vegetable Powder Drinks: Beneficial or Not?

Does anyone on here use these? I started using one because it contains the fabled curcumin and resveratrol combo in addition to a bunch of "super foods" and antioxidants. Are the fruits and vegetables in these powders still alkaline or does the processing make them acidic?

Thx

Alkaline acid balance is one of the most misunderstood topics in natural medicine. Will be writing about this in the near future. Acidic foods are necessary for the stomach. The efficacy differs with some of the powered drinks. Personally, I prefer to take resveratrol and curcumin in larger doses and take supplemental chlorella and/or spirulina.

One of the brands I've used contains 100 mg resveratrol per serving (although the curcumin dosage was lacking to the say the least). It's a great deal (from a resveratrol dosage perspective) when one considers the price of a resveratrol supplement and the price of the antioxidant powder drink (which contains a whole lot more than just resveratrol).

Will be looking forward to your write up on acid/alkaline balance.

IH - I was taking a product called Miracle Reds for awhile .

Is this beneficial if I'm alraeady taking EC, resv, circumin, green tea, etc, etc?

In other words, is this just antioxidsnt overkill?

Can you have too many antioxidants? I always thought the more the better. The product I take is called Delicious Greens 8000 which has 8000 oracs per serving and I take it 2-3 times a day.

Yes, you can have too many antioxidants, but it's not easy in the Western diet to OD on them given how many free radicals we produce with what we ingest.

Is that 100mg of Resveratrol 98% purity or higher? If it's just standard 50%, then it's 50mg, which still ain't bad.

It's just the 50%.

Ya that's the cheap stuff, beware the emodin content in the latter 50% (laxative).

Is emodin safe? I looked up quickly on google and it seems to be used to fight cancer and inflammation. Is the laxative effect the only detrimental aspect to it? I've been taking 3 servings a day (that would 300 mg of trans resveratrol 50%) and have had no problems.

scottyc33 wrote:IH - I was taking a product called Miracle Reds for awhile .

Is this beneficial if I'm alraeady taking EC, resv, circumin, green tea, etc, etc?

In other words, is this just antioxidsnt overkill?

Over kill? Not very easily. Note that in rats, there are studies that show harm with them, however they have a very different redox system than humans.

If you consider all the potential oxidation reactions that occur in the body, it's difficult to get enough coverage. That said, important antioxidant catalysts are important as well as reducing the cause of free radicals, such as normalizing thyroid function, optimizing vitamin D levels, and reducing harmful metals.