MacroLife Naturals Macro Greens Superfood Powder, 30 Servings (10oz)

I don't write too many reviews but upon looking through images of this product & reading the accompaning horse-headed negative comments, I had to throw in my 2 cents: 1. California Lead Warning - Any animal or plant from the ocean contains lead, mercury or a variety of heavy metals. This has been part of the overall decline of the environment going back years. For anyone who has written a negative review with complete surprise of the California warning label on the Macro Greens product - you are part of the problem why this decline is continuing to happen. Google 'lead in ocean fish' &/or Google 'ocean pharmaceutical contaminants'. What is surprising is the complete ignorance of these reviewers to the reality we live in now. My guess for this warning label is that Macro Greens contains chlorella which is harvested from the ocean & because of this, the warning label must be attached legally. Chlorella harvested off American shores is much better than anything harvested in China or Southeast Asia so calm down. 2. Half Filled Cannister - This product is a powder. As such, powder is constituted of 2 things. Solids & air. When an item that is powder is packaged, it is filled to the brim of the container at the packaging facility. This is because it is 'fluffed' at time of packaging. When the containers are shipped, settling occurs. The solids settle closer together & the air congregates to the top of the container. This is why you have to sift ('fluff') any powdered ingredient (flour, confectioners sugar, corn starch, etc) in every recipe - & im talking about millions upon millions of recipes. Macro Greens & Miracle Reds along with previously mentioned items are sold by weight not volume. For a reviewer to take multiple photos of this product with a measuring tape, at different angles to show the empty space inside the container & to say that they were short changed because of this is a blunder that boggles the mind! This is a common concept. 3. Color Change - To discount the Miracle Greens product because it isnt bright green is folly. Macro greens & Miracle reds are about rare macro nutrients that are not in our normal daily diet. That being said, some of the most valuable plants do not use green chlorophyll! For example - brown algae. The term "greens" is a cultural catch-all term for veggies - not the actual real-life color of all plant chlorophyll. No matter what your biology 101 textbook says, chlorophyll can be green, yellow, orange, brown, red, or blue. In my opinion, it would be more beneficial to consume brown algae (brown chlorophyll) than the majority of plants that photosynthesis using green chlorophyll. Upon noticing the color change, I would have assumed the product got better! My straightforward review: OVERALL Ive purchased both the Macro Greens & Miracle Reds product for years. They contain more macros than any other product out there. Macrolife INVENTED the macro nutrient powder industry, which is why all others are "copycats'. Take the Pepsi challenge. Pull up any other product & look at the difference in types of macro's, the quality of the macros & the level of detail in description. No other copycat contains Bromelain or Acerola. Good luck finding any other with Glucan, Dulce or Amylan. You can also bank on the fact that copycats dont have the same amount & variety of probiotics as this product does. For example, in the Macro Greens powder there are 5 different kinds of live active cultures in the amount of 18 BILLION per tablespoon! Repeat: PER TABLESPOON! People always complain of the taste & that seems to be a big point to talk about. I'm picky & I hate lettuce - but that never stopped me from grinning & eating a 'big salad' at the dinner table with my in-laws everytime we eat. In other words, the nutritional value of this is so high - just grin & bare it. In all honesty, the taste of these powders arent horrible & don't expect them to taste like fruity pebbles either. The label suggest mixing with apple juice which is great. Others mentioned other juices which works. All I do is pour a scoop of both Greens & Reds in a half filled water bottle, shake & just drink it. It's not that bad. POSITIVE This is the oldest, family owned product & inventor of this concept. I appreciate the exceutiating effort put into describing every ingredient that goes into these products. Immitators try to trick you listing items like buckwheat, oat bran or strawberry powder. Sure, Macro Greens has a buckweat product in it called Rutin - but buckwheat only becomes Rutin after the cell walls are broken down so your body can receive the benefits of its falvonoids. It's these little tricks & processing shortcuts the other products don't want you to know about. They might seem cheaper but in reality you're buying powdered cheerios with them. NEGATIVE The price of this product was steadily going up over the years (inflation) until 2019 when the large container jumped by $20! Also, when I received my newest container I noted the difference in color (like so many reviewers have been blathering on about). For that reason coupled with the price increase i can only assume the company had to instill an extra step in the processing. Maybe for stricter laws or a problem in supply chain. This extra step was probably expensive, which is why the price jumped & the color change. FINAL I've had nothing but great results with my health (auto-immune & an auto-inflammatory disorders) directly from this product so I can't quibble to much about price at the moment. If I notice a change in the health benefits, then I will make an addendum to this review which is on both the Macro Greens & Miracle Reds Amazon page. If you don't see any addendum then this product is still the best out there. Your body really changes for the positive with these products. cAVEAT I am a nobody consumer. I havn't researched every similar product ever made & I dont hold any special degree in biology or food processing. I have not been paid &/or given free product from Macrolife or Amazon for my review. I took the time to write all this down for the benefit of any reader out there looking for a real honest opinion of this product. Also to slug all the ignorant negative reviews. Huzzah

Best Greens and Fruit powder in the market. Been using for 6 years now and believe this diffiently helps keep nutrients in the body, when you don't always eat the best food. You get what you pay for...I've tried cheaper brands. This is the best.

As nutritional mix-ins go, this one is pretty good. (I like the nutrition better than the taste, although the taste is not overpowering if you mix this in with other things.) I added it to my smoothie this morning (along with almond milk, hemp protein, cacao, and frozen berries). It blended well and it didn't conflict with any of the flavors (i.e., my smoothie didn't taste "green"). One thing I like about this is that you can get the micronutrients and antioxidants from all the different ingredients (see the product images for the full list) without going and buying each of those individually. (Many of the ingredients are unusual, expensive, or otherwise hard to obtain.) This also has plant enzymes (e.g., protease, amylase, lipase, cellulase) and probiotics, as well as a couple of other superfood supplements. One thing I would caution you about would be not to consume too much of this -- it has 790% of your daily vitamin C. Although it is difficult to overdose on vitamin C, it *is* possible, and it would be very easy to take a lot of this powder, on top of a multivitamin, on top of any fruits or vegetables you consumed, and get too much (especially if you do this over a sustained period of time). For those who are concerned, this is raw, vegan, non-GMO, and gluten free. Because of the probiotics, this is best as a drink add-in. (If you baked with it, you would kill the probiotic bacteria.) But as a drink add-in, this is quite good. I love all the plant based ingredients and the formula is easy to work with.

Excellent product with an impressively broad-range of ingredients including several unusual items like flax seed and policosanol, and 18 Billion probiotics. It doesn't taste like ice cream, but it's not nearly as bad as some I've had. It's palatable with the chocolate flavored protein powder I usually mix in. I tried several different green drinks and settled on this one for the price-to-quality ratio. I hadn't intended to quit drinking coffee when I started this, but that's been a pleasant consequence of taking this product. It has definitely boosted my energy and sharpness, I can tell. A little gritty but, again, not like some of the others out there. Very good value. Will purchase again.

I have only been using Macro Greens for a little over a month & I love it ! I'm a diabetic with other health issues. I try to eat healthy but don't usually get enough fruits and vegis so I thought this product might help me. I took the suggestion and mix it with 1/2 water & 1/2 organic apple juice, right off I didn't like the smell but could handle the taste okay. After just a few days my body was craving it ! I find that I really like the taste now, I prefer shaking it in a cup with a lid then using a straw to drink it up. I hope the smell will grow on me as the taste has. I have seen benefits already, my sugar levels are much better, my digestive system is getting on tract, my energy and additude are both up. I hope anyone wanting get a bit healthier will try this product and be as pleased with it as I am. Also very happy to see the price so much lower online, half of what I paid at a health food store... Thank You :)

So I was looking for a product that had Barley Grass in it. Macro Greens has some of the most of this ingredient in it. I had tried some other product that had a berry flavor added to it, and it was awful, but Macro Greens has no extra flavor added to it so it mixes well with anything. I would suggest mixing it with a protein mix of some sort. The first time I used this product I got a little tingle on or in my skin, just weird at that. The weirdest thing that happen was by the time I got to work, it seemed that my nose got affected. I could smell all kinds of things, like when someone walked by with perfume, even after a minute I could tell it was in the air yet. I even went over to one of my co-works and complained of someones way to strong perfume, and he did not even seem to smell it, but I could and i ended up walk away for a bit till she left. The big surprise was lunch time , when I could tell just about every ingredient that was in each of my friends different lunches just by smelling it. Very weird affect from this product, and even weeks later it's still the same. Anyway I think this product is great and I am just glad to know that i get my Greens every day, and feel health.

I had high hopes for this product, but unfortunately it was too good to be true. This product may be dangerous to anyone with a high sensitivity to caffeine. I took the product for 8 days. Initially things were great. I had a lot of new energy that I thought was from the "natural" vitamins in the supplement. After a day or two of taking it, I started noticing mood swings, exhaustion, increased aggression, "jitters", and significant insomnia. These are all symptoms that occur when I am exposed to significant amounts of caffeine. After going through my diet for the past week, I narrowed it down to the only new item introduced into my diet: Macro Greens. After careful inspection for caffeine sources, I noticed the inclusion of Green Tea Extract. This was my culprit. As of now I have significant stomach issues, insomnia, and mood issues. I also have medical conditions that are triggered by caffeine which are all active at this time. It's an awful experience that I hope others can avoid by reading this. I would be happy to take another look at the product if they would exclude their caffeine sources. However, I suspect that many of the proclaimed energy benefits people claim to have will disappear if this happens. I returned the product.

So far, I love this stuff. Yes, it tastes and smells like alfalfa hay. But, it's a bunch of greens dried and mixed together, it's not going to taste like a Hershey's bar. That being said, I've tried other greens powders in the past and this one definitely has the most mild flavor. I don't mind drinking it by itself, but I will occasionally add some apple juice as suggested by the label and you can't taste the greens powder at all. As far as "Does it work?", there I'm not sure. I do believe greens powders are a supplement you have to take consistently to see true noticeable results, and I've only been drinking it consistently for about a week. I have noticed that the past few days I've slept better, and woken up more refreshed in the morning, but this could be due to other factors. I don't expect miracles from this product though, I am drinking it mostly to contribute to my overall and long-term health in lieu of a multi-vitamin, so far so good. Overall, if you are looking for a greens powder, this is it!