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SUPERFOOD
QUESTION:  I just purchased a product called "God's Blend," a "super food" because I was looking for nutrition other than vitamins.  It is a powder and has 20 or so herbs. Royal jelly, alfalfa, chickweed, gota kola, red korean ginseng, beet tops and roots, pau d arca, saw palmetto berries, astragulus root, milk thistle seed, ginger, aloe, rye grass, black walnut, licorice root, lemon peel, ginko leaves, flax seed, dandelion leaves, barley grass, kelp, cinnamon, chaste tree berries, hawthorn berries. Does this sound like something that would be safe for me to drink on a daily basis? Would it give me proper nutrition? Is it one of those things
that I should only do for a while and then stop? I am 5"2, 110 lbs and eat mainly fruits, fish, grains and vegetables and take an herbal fiber blend daily. (The fiber blend also has black  walnut, and licorice root.)
The dose for me is a teaspoon twice a day in water of this God's Blend.

ANSWER:  There are a lot of good herbs in the mix, I am wondering why you would need them all...and how much of each do you really get with each serving of a teaspoon.  I wouldn't be to worried about overdosing and I am not sure you need it, sounds like you eat right and are not overweight.

If you really want to eat superfoods, try to find what is in season and eat fresh organic veggies, fruits and protein sources.

What I consider herbal super foods are Beet tops, Barley and Wheat Grasses, Nettles Leaf, Spirulina, Horsetail, Chlorella, Watercress, Dandelion Leaf, Purslane, Garlic Mustard, Asparagus, Parsley, Alfalfa and all the dark green leafy vegetables to name a few of the green super foods.  Eat your foods by color, Red (Beets), Orange (Carrots), Yellow (Yellow Peppers), Green (Salad mixes), Blue (Blueberry), Indigo (Grapes) and Violet (Plums) (this can be remembered as ROY G BIV)  all these colors mean health and nutrition.