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The most common questions about Force Factor Smarter Greens
The natural unflavored version of smarter greens superfoods isn't great, we'd recommend giving this a pass. As for the pomegranate, it's ok, but doesn't cover the greens taste very well, so if you're particularly inclined to not want a greens powder that tastes vegetably, then we'd say avoid. The lemon lime does the job pretty well, but is a little saccharine and we'd have preffered something a little bit sharper. So it tastes pretty good, but there's a lot of better options, it's definitely worse than AG1, Spruce or Super Green Tonik.
Aside from helping cover vitamins and minerals, there's a host of antioxidants which is good, the guy bacteria is going to support digestive health, although, not as well as a dedicated probiotic. The prebiotic blend does add something a little extra here, but still scores middling against other greens powders. Other than that it's quite focused on Flax, Brown Rice and Barley which don't have nearly as many health benefits when it comes to secondary benefits than other greens blends and they don't really include much in the way of super herbs, so for gut health we score 4 out of 5 for a greens blend, 3 out of 5 for nutrients and everything else is a 1. So, in short, not nearly as much as the competition.
Firstly it's a requirement of many countries to list ingredients in blends from largest to smallest, this is important to know as it allows us to make reasonable assumptions on the blends contents. For example, coffee extract is the third largest ingredient in one of the blends so we can make assumptions based on maximum legally saleable caffeine content to work out that all ingredients below that in the list are contained in a smaller volume than said maximum.
Greens Grains and Vegetables Superblend 5830mg
Whilst being the bulk of the product this is the most disappointing element of smarter greens superfoods powder, as we've already mentioned it's far more heavily weighted towards being a grains powder than a greens powder.
This means that it misses out on ingredients like spirulina and short changes you on broccoli, kale and spinach which come with far more benefits than the grains which we generally get enough of in our diets.
Flax actually has a few negatives for men, with large doses potentially lowering hormone production and spirulina would have the same health benefits, although it is more expensive so it's quite obviously why Force Factor Smarter greens superfoods made this call.
Fruits and Fiber Superblend 1975mg
This isn't much better than the greens blend, exotic berries etc are all well and good, but the majority of this blend is the tapioca powder. Tapioca is basically just starch. It's almost pure carbs and contains very little other nutrients. There's some coffee extract in here, which keeping in mind is the 3rd largest ingredient in the blend. Considering it's highly unlikely that this is in a dose of more than 200mg (otherwise customers would be bouncing off the walls) that means that your getting less than a gram of each of the fruits vegetables and superfoods in the rest of the blend at the hydrated state. Nothing great here, tapioca and fruit sugars (fructooligosaccharides) the second largest ingredient.
Enzyme Support Matrix 50mg
This is all fine, there's a decent amount of gut bacteria in here and some good supporting food for them. The catch is probiotic pills do work a little bit better to promote a healthy digestive system as not everything in Force Factor Smarter Greens Powder will make it to the gut.
Bioperine 5mg
This is a fine inclusion, it aids with the absorption of essential vitamins & minerals, doesn't do anything else, and 10mg is a better dosage, but there's nothing wrong with including this.