Reds Superfood Powder - Antioxidant & Gut Support - 29 Fruits, Botanicals & Probiotics - 120g, Vegan & Non-GMO

You want the food you do eat to cover more of what your body needs, not less of it.

The usual answer is to eat cleaner, and that helps. It also misses what actually happens when meals get smaller. The quantity is not the first thing to go. The range is. Staples stay, the odd things fall off the list, and a whole week of eating narrows to six or seven foods without anyone deciding it should.

Here is what goes into the scoop and what each part of it is doing:

• Red fruit and root. Beet root leads the label, with strawberry, raspberry, black currant, acai, blueberry, cranberry and pomegranate behind it, carrying the plant compounds that help protect your cells from everyday oxidative stress.
• Fiber that feeds the cultures. Oat fiber and inulin are what the bacteria in your gut actually eat, so this scoop brings the cultures and their food in together instead of leaving you to buy them separately.
• Nine live cultures. L. acidophilus, L. salivarius, L. plantarum, L. rhamnosus, B. lactis, B. bifidum, L. fermentum, L. reuteri and B. longum, listed one by one.
• Botanicals at the tail. Cinnamon, green tea, ginger, turmeric, shilajit, bitter melon and black pepper extract close the list, and the pepper is there so more of what sits above it gets taken up.

COMPASS Reds Superfood gives you twenty-nine ingredients in one scoop: nineteen plants, a mineral resin, and nine live cultures. One scoop in 6 to 8 ounces of cold water once a day, finished within ten minutes of mixing, and what you get for it:

• Range back on a plate that got smaller. Fruit and root you would otherwise have to buy, cook and finish before any of it went off.
• A gut that is fed as well as seeded. Fiber and live cultures arriving in the same glass rather than in two different products.
• One thing to keep up, not a shelf of them. A minute in cold water covers ground it would otherwise take four separate tubs to cover.

The honest version, so you know what you are looking for.

🌱 Digestion tends to move first

Fiber and live cultures are the fastest-acting part of this formula, and the first fortnight is usually where people say they notice something. It is also the part most affected by what the rest of your eating is doing, so it lands differently depending on where you are starting from.

⏳ The plant side is a slow build

Antioxidant intake is cumulative rather than dramatic. Nothing about a single scoop announces itself, and that is the point of it. What you are building is a daily floor under your plant intake instead of a number that swings with how the shopping went.

🍷 A red tint is normal and it is harmless

Beet root is the first ingredient by weight, and beet pigment is famous for travelling straight through. A pink tint in the bathroom for a day or two after you start is that pigment and nothing else. It is well documented and it is not a reason to stop.

🍵 Green tea is in the formula, so caffeine is too

Green tea powder sits in the botanical end of the ingredient list. The label does not state how much caffeine that works out to, so if you are sensitive to it, or you were planning on drinking this late, take it earlier in the day instead.

🥄 It is cover, not a stand-in

This is here to sit beside the food you are eating, not to take its place. Smaller meals still need to be good ones. What a scoop does is stop the range in your week depending entirely on how much cooking you got round to.

Twenty-nine entries is a long list. It breaks into four jobs.

• The berries and the grape seed. Strawberry, raspberry, black currant, acai, blueberry, cranberry, pomegranate and grape seed extract are the antioxidant end of the label, and they are there to help protect your cells against the oxidative stress of ordinary living.
• The roots and the fiber. Beet root leads by weight, and oat fiber and inulin bring the prebiotic side, which is the food your own gut bacteria live on.
• The nine live cultures. From L. acidophilus to B. longum, going in daily alongside the fiber that feeds them, which is what supports digestive comfort while your eating pattern is changing.
• The botanicals and the pepper. Cinnamon, green tea, ginger, turmeric, shilajit and bitter melon sit at the tail, and black pepper extract closes it so that more of what came before is taken up rather than passed through.

How this label handles amounts.

Ingredients are printed in order of weight, from beet root at the top to black pepper extract at the bottom, and the net weight of the tub is given. No amount is printed for any single ingredient and no culture count is given, so no such figure is stated here either. What you can rely on is the shape of the list: fruit and root at the front, where the bulk of a scoop is.

This was made for someone whose eating has changed and who would rather cover the ground she has lost than pretend it is still there.

It's especially for you if:

• Your meals are smaller than they used to be and nothing else about them has changed.
• You could name every food you cut and could not name a single one that replaced it.
• Fruit and vegetables are the thing you keep meaning to get round to.
• Your digestion has not settled into the way you are eating now.
• Something green and grassy is what put you off powders the last time you tried one.

Twenty-nine ingredients in a scoop: nineteen plants, a mineral resin and nine live cultures, with oat fiber and inulin in there to feed them. 120 grams of powder to a tub, one scoop in cold water once a day. Vegetarian and vegan friendly, made in the USA.

If three of those sounded like you, this is the reds powder you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you avoid gluten, because the formula contains oat fiber powder and carries no gluten-free claim. It contains green tea, so there is caffeine in it and the amount is not stated. It is not for anyone under 18, and if you are pregnant, nursing or managing a medical condition, speak to your doctor before you start.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If COMPASS isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.