Our first glance at the ingredient list left us frowning
with confusion. Instead of a list of effective ingredients backed up with
well-proven research, we found it lacking in anything of quality that could
help redeem this product.
In fact, the only three ingredients on the list that has any
credibility are green coffee bean, white kidney bean and vitamin D. While these
ingredients may help maintain your weight, they are not proven to burn body
fat, which makes us wonder why it is marketed as a fat burner?
We all know that to be an effective fat burner, a product
needs to contain ingredients known to help curb your appetite and keep you
feeling satiated between meals. This product has none of them.
Plus, only taking one dose before bed at night will never
help keep you feeling full throughout the day and evening. Even the vitamin D
content is way too low to benefit significantly!
Another bugbear of ours that makes us question the quality
and effectiveness of a fat-burning product is when the manufacturer uses a
proprietary blend. Using a proprietary blend is an easy way to disguise what is
actually included and is a cheap way to mass-produce a product and pad it out
to make it look more substantial than it actually is.
Maybe it is the lack of high-quality, proven ingredients and
the questionable proprietary blend that makes Envy Fat Burner one of the
cheapest products in this category. As we all know, cheaper isn't always
better! Does the low price reflect the quality of the ingredients? We think it
does.
In this night-time fat burner, you get 500mg of a
proprietary blend. Let's take a look at what is included:
Green
Coffee Bean (Unknown Dosage): This extract has been shown to slow down the
conversion of carbohydrates into body fat. However, as we don't know how
much is included, we cannot say how effective it is. Also, while it slows
down the conversion of carbs to fat, it doesn't encourage your body to
burn body fat for energy.
L-Theanine
(Unknown Dosage): An amino acid that can help you get to sleep with greater
ease but has no evidence of aiding fat-burning.
L-Tryptophan
(Unknown Dosage): Another amino acid that can aid your sleep by helping
with the creation of melatonin, your body's primary sleep hormone.
Melatonin
(Unknown Dosage): An effective sleep aid when given at the correct dose,
but again we have no idea how much melatonin is included in the
proprietary blend, so we cannot prove its effectiveness.
Passionflower
Extract (Unknown Dosage): A sleep aid ingredient with questionable
supporting evidence.
Valerian
Root Extract (Unknown Dosage): While Valarian is a common ingredient found
in many over-the-counter herbal sleep aids, there is little to no
science-backed evidence that it is effective.
White
Kidney Bean (Unknown Dosage): White kidney bean is commonly used in
fat-burning preparations, not because it helps your body burn fat, but
because it can slow carbohydrate absorption and lowers insulin spikes.
Keeping insulin low helps reduce body fat storage, but it doesn't
encourage fat burning in the body.
It fails hard, missing out on ingredients that actually work,
like glucomannan, 5htp, cayenne and a host more. The white kidney bean is
really the only thing we’d have looked to include here. In reality, Envy is really just a sleep aid, and if it marketed itself as such, it would be fine.
We think it is trying too hard to be something that it is
not. Why even bother to claim to be an effective fat-burning product if it
contains no beneficial science-backed metabolism-boosting ingredients, appetite
suppressants or thermogenic ingredients?
In an effective fat burner, we would at least expect to see
ingredients such as cayenne pepper extracts, caffeine, chromium, and proven
appetite suppressants such as glucomannan to help curb your appetite between
meals.
It is in the fat-burning section where this product is
severely lacking. In fact, the only two ingredients qualified to be in a health
food supplement are the green coffee bean extract and the white kidney bean
extract, but even these two ingredients don't encourage fat burning.
If anything, these two ingredients help reduce body fat
formation by dulling your insulin response to carbohydrates.