Vegetable Powder Starter Kit

The key to vegetable consumption is diversity: a wide variety of roots, leaves and fruits and as many colors as possible. Our Threefold Blend Powder makes accomplishing this as easy as adding a tablespoon of the nutritious powder to your morning soup, eggs or smoothie, thereby ensuring that you have already consumed a diverse vegetable diet for the day.

This version of our Threefold Blend Powder contains carrots and leeks (roots); Swiss chard and kale (leaves); and peppers. This combination ensures beta-carotene for overall immunity, eye and skin health; antioxidants for cancer prevention and heart health; and dietary fiber for maintaining a healthy weight and reducing risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Beets, called red carrots in Europe, are one of the undisputed stars of the vegetable world.  Research has identified three main medical uses for the common beet.  The first is as a liver/gall bladder tonic because of its abundance of betaine, a phytochemical that thins the bile, thereby allowing for better bile flow.  Beets have also been traditionally used to treat anemia, especially in children, because of their iron content.  And, finally, recent studies have shown that beet powder is as effective a blood-pressure medicine as conventional treatments, most likely because of the presence of nitric-oxide precursors found in the beet root. 

Our Three-Beet Powder is made from three varieties of beets (Detroit Red, Chiogga and Golden) that were grown by the Demeter-certified biodynamic farm Hawthorne Valley in Hudson Valley, N.Y. Because of its intense flavor and abundant nutrients, Three-Beet Powder can be used in any dish, from salads to desserts (especially with its traditional complement, chocolate). 

The key to vegetable consumption is diversity: a wide variety of roots, leaves and fruits and as many colors as possible. Our Threefold Blend Powder makes accomplishing this as easy as adding a tablespoon of the nutritious powder to your morning soup, eggs or smoothie, thereby ensuring that you have already consumed a diverse vegetable diet for the day.

Our Threefold Blend Powder (Slightly Sweet) contains carrots and beets (roots), Swiss chard and kale (leaves), and winter squash (fruit). This combination ensures beta-carotene for overall immunity, eye and skin health; antioxidants for cancer prevention and heart health; and dietary fiber for maintaining a healthy weight and reducing risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Oxalates are simple molecules found in the leaves of many plants. For some susceptible people, when excessive amounts of oxalates are ingested, the oxalates bind with calcium in the blood and cause both damaging inflammation and precipitation in the form of kidney stones. 

Again, for susceptible people, lowering the oxalate intake in the diet is a way to prevent stone formation, reduce systemic inflammation and, in general, achieve better health.   The dilemma, however, is that a low-oxalate diet can lead to the avoidance of otherwise very beneficial foods, such as greens.   That is why we developed our Low-Oxalate Greens Powder. 

After researching the oxalate content of various greens, three emerged as the most tasty and nutritious while significantly lower in oxalates than others.   Our locally sourced, organic lacinato kale, collard greens and mustard leaves will give you the health benefits from the regular consumption of green vegetables while reducing your oxalate exposure.