How To buy Safe and Effective Quality Moringa Supplements
Moringa supplements differ in Quality so learn in my Substack below how to buy Moringa supplements safely
Moringa leaves are some of the most nutritious leaves in the world! The problem is where and how the leaves are picked, dried, tested, and packaged, which either makes the product a nutritionally charged superfood or a dried, contaminated product. How do you tell?
Imported Moringa powder may not be safe, even though organic, nor safe to consume! Learn why!
Back in CA in 2010-2013, we grew Moringa trees and sold Moringa leaf tea and products. At the time, we tried importing the products ourselves from India. We learned the cold, hard facts about the problems in Moringa Leaf dried products. We lost $800 on Moringa products we never received. The first order, we got taken by a dealer using a fake organic certificate that belonged to another company. We never got the product period. We turned him in, and he had taken other importers as well. He was never caught but just disappeared. India is a huge country with lots of space to disappear in. Import certificates are easily forged. Now the technology has greatly improved in forging papers of any kind.
The second import was from an Indian company with a valid organic certificate and a good reputation from the certifying agent in India itself. I did my research and felt confident with the order. We paid for the bulk packaged product, and it got stuck in the Port of San Diego. They test it and tell us that the products are contaminated with dirt and mouse feces. They didn’t approve of the labels either. Customs decide that it must be burned, and too bad, so sad for us. We did receive our money back from this company eventually, but it took 3 months! In the end, it was a valuable lesson learned the hard way.
The 3rd try was buying from Florida. We did get that product tested, and it was deemed safe. Later on, his refusal to send me proof of his statements on the quality testing he had performed made me suspicious. So there is a huge difference in the quality of herbs and supplements coming from overseas companies. Moringa is no exception.
In the end, one reason we discontinued the business was because of the problem of buying tested, quality Moringa powder. At the time, Moringa was a new product, fewer companies sold products, and most of it was not tested properly. I could not with confidence, sell it with assurance of safety to my customers. A lot has improved since those years.
Moringa leaves must be picked at the right time, when the leaves are of good quality, fresh, and full of nutrition.
The people who pick the leaves need to have clean hands.
How was the Moringa picked, dried, and processed?
The way the leaves are dried matters to the quality of the products. If it is not dried properly at low heat, the leaf material can become nutritionally deficient! The picking and drying procedures can destroy the nutrient value, be contaminated by insects, or dirt from old, dirty equipment, or the area where the workers dried the leaves. Contamination often occurs at the storage facility located in India or wherever the product is grown. Why are there recalls all the time because of this breakdown in processing and packing food, no matter what the food product?
How long does the product sit in the facility before it is shipped?
Is the powder green or a browish color? Green is good. Brown means it is not fresh or that it was over-dried or dried with excess heat.
Does the company in the US that buys the shipment of Moringa powder from India or elsewhere test the product once it arrives at their laboratory?
Testing is absolutely necessary to ensure your safety!
It needs to be tested in that lab located in the US for dirt, bugs, mouse or animal feces, salmonella, mold, and other contamination. This is a major step to make sure you are not buying and consuming a contaminated Moringa product! It needs to be tested to ensure it is Moringa leaves and not some other green leaves that will look the same when ground into a powder! Believe me, you cannot tell if the product is safe visually. It takes a high-quality microscope and different kinds of testing machinery to inspect the products. You also need to test it for nutritional quality! Is the product dead or full of vitamins and minerals as it is sold?
Do I have a recommendation at this point?
After spending a week looking at different products, Nutrabell is my recommendation for Moringa in caps, and this is why below.
I am posting a picture of the bottle label below, and will go over the points that are important.
I receive no money from the companies listed in this article.
It is an extract that makes it more potent.
It has the sticker that states it is organic. If there is no sticker, only their word, that is a problem.
Made in a US lab with a sticker stating it is 3d party tested. If it isn’t tested in a US lab, I would not buy it.
3rd party testing is extremely important because of contamination, ecoli, mouse feces, and dirt, etc.
GMO-free is important with all the trash foods we are consuming.
This product does contain organic rice powder, which is added to make it flow more easily into the capsule. If you buy any herb in capsule form, it usually contains a product to help it be encapsulated more easily. I am not concerned about the organic rice powder.
Generally, the effective dose of Moringa is 1000 to 2000 mg of bulk powder.
So this product is 400 mg a capsule, but it’s a 10:1 extract, so you need fewer capsules. The dose is 2 caps or 800 mg, which is adequate. If you have cancer, I would take 2 caps twice a day.
No matter what Moringa product you buy, it should have stickers on the bottle’s label that prove its quality, not just the company’s advertising.
Those stickers are proof of the steps taken by the company in the US, in regards to safety and quality!
Those stickers are backed up with proof submitted by the lab to the FDA labeling standards division and approved before being sold. The FDA label wording is scrutinized, and if the label wording is not approved before sale, the product can then be required to be taken back off the shelves.
Why capsules instead of a green drink?
If you can’t get down a green drink, or won’t take caps, is the way to go. You can also take them to work more easily. I love green drinks, but getting them down my husband is another story. Compliance is the biggest issue in taking herbs on a program.
My choice of bulk moringa is again because of the listed certifications. I have not tested these products myself in a lab. This product comes from South Asia not India.
