cool cheat if you aren't eating enough fruit/veg

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http://www.myprotein.com/uk/products/superfood_xs

I've been adding this to Tropicana, it's full of lots of fruit and vegetables. My skin looks nicer after only a few days so I guess it's the real thing.

Who else wishes they could just eat astronaut rations and not have to bother with the whole tricky business of food?

I am sorry but I just think it's a total waste of money (and its not even that great of a product). I would think that food can be real fun and todays science can't really cheat off nature yet. I think that there is more to it than just nutrients and calories its about being in a good terms with yourself and your surroundings. Eating could be seen as a form of meditation which our modern world deprives us of. If you really dislike veggies then you could try add blueberries, some real fruit and hemp seeds - they taste nutty and really good. You could even try raw cocoa beans - a bit bitter but so much fun. There is nothing like the real thing (yet).

It is the real thing, in powder form.

"Eating could be seen as a form of meditation"

Or it could be seen as a way to consume food. I'll toss a coin to decide. It's 50/50.

Your body doesn't care what form the food is in, except that an all-liquid or very base/acidic diet is hard on your guts. In terms of nutrients it all gets shredded to amino acids.

This reminds me of those people who think fast food is 'unhealthy', as though organic chemistry discriminates between poorly-made hamburgers and fancy ones.

Yeah, I think the problem with fast food is what it's made of.

No, it's the proportions people eat. Otherwise it's chemically almost identical to whatever sauteed steak or whatever you'd pay $50 for.

Most hatred of fast-food is pure anti-capitalism.

It depends on what you mean by "fancy". If the exact same beef is used, there is no distinction. If the "fancy" hamburger is made from a cow that ate grazed on grass in a field as opposed to the fast food beef which is corn-based and full of antibiotics and hormones, there is a huge difference. Organioc chemistry doesn't care about the shape, but it cares quit a bit about the actual components.

No, there isn't. You're referring to media pseudo-science. Sorry, not all of us are afraid of chemicals
Organic food retardery is ret*d.

I didn't used to be afraid of chemicals either. But it turns out the damage is cumulative. I can't undo what I did when I was young, but at least I can stop doing it. I'm glad to see some younger members here making sounder choices at a young age. I wish I had when I was that age too.

It is processed. Well if you made up your mind already then I aint gonna bother. "Could be seen" is used to provide a viewpoint and deserves no mockery.

You all do what you want I just observe stats in USA and have my evil laugh.

It isn't processed, it's powdered. I actually agree with your philosophy of food but it's far beyond my organisational abilities. I'm guessing others here are similar.

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The 'damage' is imaginary BS and poor studies conducted by anti-capitalist tools.

This is just like radiophobic people, but worse, because most of the things in this evil chemically enhanced food aren't harmful in any reasonable amount; at least large amounts of radiation actually are bad for you.

Sorry, but you've just bought into the government's terror machine. Have fun being a means to their end.

StonedMoonie is apparently very cynical. On that note this product is very pricey and likely doesn't do that great as in description.

Sometimes I just get a bag of salad greens (my favourites are spinach, argula and watercress) and snack on them like a bag of crisps. If I'm not feeling too lazy I'll go out and gather some chickweed or dandelions. You can also make a tea with raw greens, it's like lazy soup.

If you have a garden you can grow leafy greens most of the year round to eat really easily. They are tastier when the time between picking and eating is measured in seconds.

The 'speedy veg' varieties that you can get from garden centre really do only take 4-5 weeks to grow.

Those are wonderful ideas for people who are capable of that level of organisation, or who can bear the taste of vegetables. However this powder is the first method of ingesting fruit+veg I have ever been able to use.