The reality today is that most of us struggle to eat the recommended dietary guidelines of 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. In my personal opinion we should be eating at least 7 portions of organic fruit and veg daily – with only 2 of those being fruit. Simply because commercial inorganic farming has left the soil very depleted in the vital nutrients that we only eat food for in the first place. So, if you are not eating organic food, it is a complete guess as to how many nutrients your inorganic veg and fruit contains – and my guess is you will be deficient in many of the vital ones that when this happens, cause many widespread chronic degenerative diseases. The longer this deficient state is ignored, the more you increase your chances of this happening.
A possible solution for today’s hectic way of living, that causes many of us to not care too much about what we are eating just so long as we eat something and feel full, is to introduce a superfood powder to your daily regime. This acts as a sort of health insurance policy if you like, in trying to give you back some of the vital nutrients your diet might be missing. One that I highly recommend because of its superior quality is Pukka Organic Clean Greens, which is certified organic and produced by a company that genuinely cares for the environment too, and does not leave damage to the earth as a result of making this product.
Use Food Sources As Your Main Supplement
When supplementing your diet with tablets, powders or liquids – it is best to firstly address any deficiency you might have by simply increasing your daily intake of organic fruit and vegetables, and then any products you do choose to buy as supplements, ensure they are made up from whole food organic sources. This way your body is able to absorb it with ease because it recognises the nutrients, and it can then take the nutrients directly to the cells in the body that need it most.
We all need to be paying attention to living and eating in a way that nourishes our body on a cellular level, and avoid doing things that cause damage on a cellular level, it is when we do not that we encourage disease to fester within us. Pukka Clean Greens will help you right on a cellular level – a powder that reaches you in is whole undamaged state even after processing due to the organic ingredients being carefully picked, ground and gently freeze dried at low temperatures.
The food sources used to make this amazing superfood powder are:
- Nettle leaf
- Wheat Grass Juice
- Barley Grass Juice
- Parsley Leaf
- Spirulina
- Chlorella
- Seagreens Arctic Fresh Seaweed
- Kale Sprout
- Fennel Seed
- Peppermint Leaf
- Green Tea Leaf
- Ginger Root
That’s quite a list huh! The nutrient value of these foods is quite exhaustive too, and just some of the vitamins and minerals contained in this food supplement are Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron and then the hugely powerful blood cleanser Chlorophyll. All the ingredients in Pukka Clean Greens have been chosen because of their unique and synergistic ability to help cleanse the body of accumulated toxins from different channels, organs, tissues and cells. Making this product exceptional at helping our bodies to cope with our polluted environment and diet. The great thing is every single ingredient is certified organic by the prestigious and hard working Soil Association.
Anti-Ageing Benefits
Each daily serving not only gives you a nutrient dense plant food, it is also extremely high in antioxidants. Antioxidants are substances that can protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are formed when a weak bond between at least 2 atoms splits.happens when a bond splits in the body that leaves a molecule with an odd unpaired electron. This unpaired electron then becomes unstable and can react quickly with other compounds to try to catch a needed electron to help it become stable again. Usually, free radicals will attack the nearest stable molecule and will ‘steal’ its electron. When this happens, the ‘attacked’ molecule will then become a free radical too – and so the domino effect has begun of how free radicals breed. Once this process has begun, it gets worse with the end result disrupting a living healthy cell.
Free radicals do however get created on purpose by the immune system sometimes to say neutralize a virus or bacteria. They are also a by product sometimes of metabolism. However, environmental factors such as radiation, pollution, chemical herbicides, and cigarette smoke can also spur on free radicals to be produced in large amounts within the body.
So, I believe the body can generally speaking cope with free radicals, but this is only if antioxidants are available, and constantly replenished within the body. And if free radical production becomes too much for the body to handle, damage could then occur. Also, free radical damage accumulates with age, so again this is where Pukka Clean Greens could come in handy in preventing, or at least slowing down the signs of ageing.
Each daily serving of Pukka Clean Greens gives you 3000 ORAC uM TE/g, which is in short the approximate amount you will get in five decent sized servings of fruit and vegetables. Now ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity (the antioxidant value in short) – meaning the level of antioxidants that can safely interact with free radicals, terminating the chain reaction before vital molecules are damaged. Each day you should be getting 3000 ORAC in your body just to maintain health, but for excellent health you should aim for 5000 ORAC a day – and this is why you cannot live on this superfood powder alone! One should always be using alongside a healthy, clean organic and varied diet.
Decent Taste & Benefits for Many
Often, what puts people off the thought of taking a superfood powder is the taste. I personally think the taste of Pukka Clean Greens, as far as the heavy green content goes, is good and makes it easy to drink if you choose the powder option. But if you still are not convinced about getting used to the taste but want all the benefits of this fab product, do not fear! You can buy this product in a capsule form too. So there are no excuses to up your vital daily dose of vegetables!
The people who can use this product are teenagers, adults, the elderly, vegetarians and vegans – so long as with everything you have no known allergies to any of the ingredients found within. Pregnant women should speak to a qualified and experienced natural nutritionist or naturopath before taking this product. As should those living with chronic illnesses or are taking medication that might interact negatively with some of the ingredients.
Suggested Recipe for Using Pukka Clean Greens
You can quite easily pop a teaspoon of powder into a 125ml glass of water, and drink it down. But if you want something more tasty, and even more nutritious why not pop it into a freshly made smoothie or juice? To make a fresh vegetable juice, try using the following ingredients:
- half an organic beetroot
- 3 sticks of organic celery
- 4 organic carrots
- half a cucumber
- half a broccoli
- half an apple
- juice of half a lemon
One you have washed and juiced all the above veg and fruit, simply add 1 teaspoon of Pukka Clean Greens in, and stir or shake if you have a protein shake bottle. (But make sure the lid is closed!) Or watch this video to see it live!
If you wish to purchase Pukka Clean Greens in powder form please click here to be taken directly to this product. Or if you wish to purchase the capsule form that is suitable for both vegans and vegetarians then click here.
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