Greens Pak

The Greens Pak is one of the three products I've been using from Trace Minerals. I've written all about their ConcenTrace Liquid Mineral Drops earlier. And after this, you'll see my post on their Power Pak, which is different from the Greens Pak, but still fabulous. Moving on. In this post, I'll talk about the ingredients, the health benefits, the company Trace Minerals, the taste of Greens Pak and more. So pull up a seat!

The photo above is a packet of Greens Pak, opened so you can see what the powder looks like. Green, like wheatgrass, but the neat thing about Greens Pak is that it contains loads more than just wheatgrass.

And here it is again, with the flash off. You can see that the powder is green and is a very fine powder, which means it dissolves easily in water and won't clump. In fact, this is the most easy powder (especially one containing wheatgrass) I've used, and I have used at least 8 different powder supplements in the past.

What exactly is Greens Pak?

Greens Pak is a phyto-nutrient powder that contains super fruits, whole foods, vegetables, antioxidants, probiotics, enzymes, herbs, fruits,  fiber and plant extracts, etc! It contains a lot of healthy stuff.  I will go deeper into detal about the ingredients in Greens Pak in a moment. 

Greens Pak has antioxidant ORAC score equal to more than 15 servings of organic fruits and vegetables in every packet.

A Little About Probiotics

Before I go really deep in this, I want to emphasis the probiotics. Greens Pak contains dairy-free probiotics: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifido Bacterium longum, L. casei, L. rhamnosus.

You probably know these are very good for our digestive system. I particularly started using probiotics (in different forms, including kefir), a couple years ago due to the struggle with IBS-candida. Candidiasis (an overgrowth of candida-alibicans or "yeast") is where you have too much of the bad bacteria (candida-albicans) and not enough good bacteria. A bout of candidiasis is really common after taking a course of antibiotics because they destroy all bacteria, including the good, which gives the bad a chance to flourish. And flourish they will do, quickly!

I'm going to refrain from going into a huge rant about candida and its causes, now.

So, basically, probiotics are the healthy bacteria that almost everybody needs more of. Getting them will also help fight off any of the bad bacteria (yep, most everybody has those, too!) and relieve digestive issues like bloating, constipation, stomach pain, etc.

What is In Greens Pak?

 Do you guys remember my post about ConcenTrace? Greens Pak also contains ConcenTrace. ConcenTrace, put briefly, is trace minerals. ConcenTrace includes over 72 trace minerals and elements. 

So, Greens Pak contains ConcenTrace (very healthy, helpful stuff! Read my post on it, if you haven't.) and probiotics. ConcenTrace not only has its own abundance of benefits that you'll notice, but also helps your body absorb the vitamins and nutrients you get from the Greens Pak.

Here is everything in Greens Pak (it's long!):

35 calories per serving/pack

2 grams fat

4 grams total carbohydrates

1 gram dietary fiber

1 gram sugars

-Protein: 1 gram

-Vitamin A (beta Carotene): 850 IU

-Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid): 35 Mg

-Calcium: 15 mg

-Iron 1 mg

-Sodium: 20 mg

-Potassium: 70 mg

-Greens Blend: 1346 g

- Barley Grass Juice Powder (cert. organic), Spirulina (cert. organic), Chlorella (Japanese cracked cell wall), ConcenTrace® Alfalfa Ionic Trace Mineral Complex.)

- Vegetable blend (certified organic): 1340 mg

- Carrot Rhizome Powder, Broccoli Herb Powder, Cauliower Bulb Powder, Spinach Leaf Powder, Parsley Herb Powder.

-Fiber blend: 1306 mg

-Whole Oat Bran, Apple Fiber Pectin, Sprouted Barley Malt, SDG Flax Lignans.

-Antioxidant Blend: 1243 mg 

-Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Strawberry Fruit Powder, Raspberry Fruit Powder, Grapefruit Peel Extract, Quercetin (98% Dihydrate), Green Tea Leaf Extract Decaf (60% Polyphenols), Japanese Knotweed Root Extract (Trans Resveratrol 50%), Milk Thistle Seed Extract (80% Silymarin), Acerola Cherry Fruit Powder, Aloe Vera Leaf Powder (cert. organic), Turmeric Rhizome Extract, Grape Seed Extract, Blueberry Leaf Extract, Red Beet Root Powder (cert. organic), Mangosteen Fruit Powder, Cabbage Palm (Açaí) Fruit Powder, Noni Fruit Powder, Lycium (Goji) Berry Fruit Powder, Cassia (Cinnamon) Bark Powder (cert. organic), Atlantic Kelp Powder (cert. organic), Concord Grape Fruit Powder, Licorice Root.

-Soy Lecithin (non-GMO): 1206 mg

- Phosphatidylethanolamine, Phosphatidylcholine.

- Fruit & Vegetable Antioxidant Blend: 134 mg

-Green Tea Leaf Extract, Quercetin, Blueberry Fruit, Cranberry Fruit, Pomegranate Fruit, Raspberry Fruit, Strawberry Fruit, Broccoli Leaf, Carrot Root, Kale Leaf, Resveratrol, Spinach Leaf, Tomato Fruit, Wild Blueberry Fruit.

- Enzyme blend: 134 mg

-Bromelain (600 GDU/g), Papain, Protease, Amylase, Lipase, Cellulase, Lactase.

- Dairy free probiotics: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifido Bacterium longum, L. casei, L. rhamnosus: 134 milligrams

 

 Other Ingredients:

Stevia, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors.

*Contains trace amounts of soy.
*Contains < 20 ppm (parts per million) Gluten.

Whew! I told you the ingredients were long. Lots of good stuff in there, though!

Who is Greens Pak For?

Greens Pak can be used by anybody, including children. Greens Pak is something I love because I know I don't get nearly enough nutrients or even vitamins in my regular diet. Most people don't. I'm also an on-the-go kind of person who doesn't spend very much time in one place for long, so Greens Pak is perfect. As long as I have a bottle/glass of water (which is usually always on-hand), I can dump a pack in and have it. 

I honestly can't think of a single person who would not benefit in some way or the other from drinking this stuff. Maybe not an infant. But I do think everybody would reap benefits from Greens Pak.

Taste

Another thing that sets Greens Pak apart from any other green juice in powder form I've ever had is the taste. Greens Pak is by far the most tolerable tasting green drink I've ever used. The packs I've been using are in berry flavor, which isn't bad. I've become accustomed to the taste of a freshly mowed lawn over the last year (from drinking wheatgrass), so tasting a flavored green is a bit new, although I have had flavored wheatgrass powder before and didn't like it. This is very easy to drink. You could even mix it with another flavored beverage to further mask the taste, although I doubt most people will be that bothered by it.

The berry flavor is sweet, so that is helpful. The sweet berry flavoring overpowers any funky vegetable or wheatgrass taste. 

I simply mix mine with water and down it in one setting. The less water you use, the quicker you can get it down, but I do like to add the Greens Pak to a full glass of water -- which is more tolerable since it's not as strong tasting -- because it means I get at least one glass of water knocked out while also getting the Greens Pak down.

I've heard of people using juice like orange juice to mix with powders such as the Greens Pak.

Health Benefits:

It isn't even possible to list every health benefit from all these awesome ingredients in Greens Pak. I will mention a list of them, but if you are even more interested in know the health benefits, I recommend picking the ingredients and doing a search on "health benefits of [insert name of ingredient here]."

-Works as an anti-inflammatory thanks to the many anti-inflammatory ingredients.
-Antioxidant.
- Healthier bones, teeth and mind.
- Milk-Thistle (an ingredient in Greens Pak) has been used for liver disease and as a liver protectant, and skin tumor treatment. Also supports healthy kidney function, an antioxidant and strong anti-inflammatory.
- Soothe irritations and pain.
- Help with most digestive system upsets and irregularity.
- Stimulates digestive system.
- Gastrointestinal and circulatory health -- Japanese Knotweed Extract (an ingredient in Green's Pak) is great for gastrointestinal health and circulatory health. It works as a vessel for Resveratrol, which is also an ingredient in Greens Pak.
- Helps with bloating and stomach pains -- Turmeric (another ingredient) is known for its ability to decrease swelling, used for arthritis, heartburn, stomach pain, intestinal gas, bloating and more.

-Licorice root is also helpful for stomach, digestive problems. It also helps with PMS, craps, herpes, depression, cardiovascular disease.

Again, this is only a tiny fraction of how the ingredients in Greens Pak can benefit our health.

More information/specs about Greens Pak

• Contains Certified Organic Foods!
• Certified Vegan!
• Contains 50 different super foods
• No preservatives, Wheat, or MSG
• Probiotics support healthy digestion†
• 6000+ ORAC Units Per Serving

 

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