Essentially, the name means “Ultimate Green.” We chose that name because we believe it’s the best green superfood product on the market today.

We’ve all heard that eating lots of vegetables – especially dark green leafy ones – is good for our health, and might even reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases. On the other hand, most of us don’t get enough of those vegetables thanks to our hectic lifestyles and eating habits. In fact, it’s estimated that a full 90% of us don’t eat the 5 to 9 servings of healthy vegetables (and fruits) recommended each day. With Ultima Verde®, though, meeting those nutritional recommendations is easy.

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Ultima Verde^® retains its potency for at least two years, and we guarantee that – left unopened and stored properly – a bottle of Ultima Verde® will deliver the full nutritional punch it promises until the expiration date printed on the container. To ensure maximum nutrition and freshness, we recommend you store containers in the refrigerator or freezer after you open them.

Ultima Verde^® offers very low levels of caffeine – just 2 to 3 mg per serving. That’s far less than a cup of brewed green tea (a little under 30 mg of caffeine), and even less than a cup of decaffeinated coffee (between 8 and 14 mg).

On the other hand, each serving of Ultima Verde® does provide a full 50 mg of green tea extract – a great source of polyphenols and EGCG, a powerful antioxidant. Ultima Verde^® also gives you 32 mg of Siberian eleuthero root per 8-gram serving, much less than you’d get from a standard serving of ginseng (even a low dosage provider 1,000 to 2,000 mg per day). That’s good for a healthy level of sustained energy.

ORAC (for “Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity”) is a way to measure a food’s antioxidant power. Like nutritional labels for vitamins and minerals, the ORAC measurement provides a way to help you assess the potential health benefits of the foods you buy.

Antioxidants in foods help fight free radicals in your systems that can contribute to aging, cancer mutations and other diseases. And Ultima Verde^® packs a powerful antioxidant punch: the ORAC score for a single 8-gram serving is 2,900. A one-ounce serving has an ORAC of about 10,200!

A lot of our daily activities – from stress and exercise to eating processed foods or drinking coffee or alcohol – can lead to excess acid in our body’s systems. Too much acid interferes with many functions, causing your body to store fat and retain water, among other things. Over prolonged periods, excess acidity can increase stress on our cells and organs and increase your chances of developing an illness or disease.

Ultima Verde^® takes care of this problem with its alkalizing power (thanks in part to the ingredients wheat grass and barley grass), which helps bring your body’s pH levels back to normal. By correcting the acid-alkaline balance in your body, Ultima Verde^® helps stimulate and rejuvenate healthy cell activity. And you’ll notice the results: more energy and stamina, less fatigue and tiredness. Using Ultima Verde^® regularly can also reduce your desire to overeat and lower your cravings for sweets and other junk foods.

The live enzymes in Ultima Verde^® help with your body’s digestive system and other functions, while its natural antioxidants attack damaging free radicals that can harm delicate tissue. Many people who regularly consume wheat grass, in fact, report improvements to their complexion and skin appearance in general.

Wheat grass comes from the wheat plant, not the grain, so you should be able to eat it. Most wheat allergies are caused by the wheat berry’s gluten… and there’s no gluten in Ultima Verde^® wheat grass. Many people, in fact, say that wheat grass helps relieve their allergies, as it helps provide the nutrition their bodies need to fight allergens. As with any dietary changes, though, be sure to check with your physician, allergist or nutritionist before you start using Ultima Verde^®

Anytime you like. Many people find it works best to take Ultima Verde^® with water or juice about an hour before they eat a meal. This gives Ultima Verde’s® nutrients time to work without interference from other foods. Plus, the dehydrated wheat grass in Ultima Verde^® expands after you take it, leaving you feel fuller and less likely to overeat at mealtimes. In fact, some people say they not only feel better and more energetic, but have lost weight as well.

Other people prefer to take Ultima Verde^® first thing in the morning as a way to jumpstart the day. (It reportedly also helps you feel better in the morning if you’ve stayed out late and perhaps had one drink too many.) We recommend you take Ultima Verde^® whenever you feel it works best for you.

Your Ultima Verde^® is probably fine. Thanks to its dehydrated ingredients and low moisture content, Ultima Verde® is unlikely to develop mold or go bad as long as you keep it somewhere cool and dry. In fact, we know many customers (and our own employees) who’ve taken opened containers of Ultima Verde^® with them on weeks-long trips without refrigeration … and the product stayed in great shape.

Try to avoid storing Ultima Verde^® in high-temperature spots, though: some of the heat-sensitive nutrients (beta carotene, for instance) can lose some of their potency under such conditions.

It might be because you’re used to a diet that includes lots of processed foods, sugars or artificial sweeteners. Cereal grasses can be an unfamiliar flavor that takes getting used to, and it’s not unusual to not like Ultima Verde’s^® taste the first couple of times you use it. If you still don’t enjoy the flavor after a few tries, consider mixing with your favorite juice or blending it into a smoothie. Chances are, you’ll have a hard time tasting the wheat grass then. Over time, you might notice that Ultima Verde^® will help you reduce your cravings for sweets and other processed foods.

Yes! We all already know that pregnant women benefit from eating healthy foods like broccoli, kale and spinach. Ultima Verde^® simply adds yet another green leafy vegetable: wheat grass (among other whole and green foods). Good healthy nutrition is critical during pregnancy… both for you and the baby. We’ve received great feedback from women who’ve used Ultima Verde^® during their pregnancies and noticed the health benefits.

Ultima Verde’s^® fiber and natural enzymes also help with a common complaint associated with pregnancy: constipation. Its vitamins, minerals and other nutrients – including folic acid – help ensure your body gets the nutrition it needs… and that your baby does too.

Yes. Even though we recommend using our mixes in cold beverages, or at least at room temperature, Ultima Verde^® works in hot drinks too. As with whole fresh fruits and vegetables, the dehydrated foods in our mix contain some nutrients that are heat-sensitive. Cook them, and you lose some of the nutritional benefit – but they’re still good for you. It’s like the difference between eating spinach raw or cooked. Either way, it’s better to eat spinach than to not eat it at all.

If you do choose to use Ultima Verde^® in a hot beverage, we suggest you heat the drink first, then add the mix. You can find a variety of different and creative ways to enjoy Ultima Verde^® – including some that are served hot – on our recipes page.

Absolutely. All the ingredients in Ultima Verde^® are 100% vegan.

Yes. All the greens that go into Ultima Verde^® are dried in a special low-temperature dehydrator that doesn’t raise the temperature above 107 degrees Fahrenheit – the temperature below which foods are considered to remain raw. By preparing our ingredients in this way, we help make sure that heat-sensitive nutrients like beta carotene stay as potent as possible.

Yes. We use high-quality #2 HDPE for our Ultima Verde® containers, so they’re free of BPA.