Greenfoods are a specialized category of dietary supplements that offer dense nutrient value and lean caloric content. In other words, you pretty much get a broad range of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients without the calories that you would get if you ate enough foods to supply you with the same nutritional value.

Many people opt to simply forego taking an array of vitamins and instead, get their daily nutritional support from this one particular type of supplement.

The rich nutrients in greenfoods offer a powerhouse of nutritional support to the body. The long list of health benefits for both children and adults is astounding.

Health Benefits of Greenfoods

Researchers are continually finding benefits such as:

• Disease prevention
• Detoxification
• Energy production
• Immune building
• Tissue and cell repair in the body

These particular nutritional aids are sometimes referred to as superfoods. However, a superfood product is one that is made with a particular green food as its core nutrient and then has many other food extracts combined to produce the ‘superfood.’

Green foods, on the other hand, generally have the one food extract, or at the most, perhaps one or two other additions such as kale for additional value.

Greenfoods and superfoods are not one and the same.

The various types include low cal, nutrient dense food extracts such as barley, wheat grasses, spirulina, and chlorella. Marine algae and grasses like wheat and barley are the most common sources for these nutritional supplements.