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Athletic Greens vs Supergreen Tonik

Athletic Greens vs Supergreen Tonik

There has been a growing demand for a comparison of my Supergreen Tonik brand with the popular brand Athletic Greens (or AG1 as it's now known).

Both brands take a different approach with their choice and number of ingredients and the transparency in terms of full disclosure labeling.

Supergreen Tonik is up against the heavyweight of the greens market, Athletic Greens who have been around for 10 plus years now. This is very much a case of David vs Goliath in the greens health space.

So let's compare Athletic Greens Vs Supergreen Tonik to see which one can give you the ultimate fuel for body and mind – will it be David or Goliath?

Athletic Greens vs Supergreen Tonik

What is Athletic Greens?

Athletic Greens is credited as one of the pioneering brands to push green superfood powders into consumers.

It claims to be the ultimate daily supplement thanks to its comprehensive formula of 75 ingredients. Taken each day it’s promoted to be the easiest way to cover all your nutritional bases.

Having been on the market since 2010, Athletic Greens has a loyal following that also includes well-known personalities like Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan.

The company continues to innovate by tweaking its formula over the years to ensure the most up-to-date ingredients are used.

Athletic Greens (AG1) Pouch

Pros

  • Contains 75 ingredients, including probiotics
  • Vegan friendly
  • Tastes great in water or smoothies
  • Popular with athletes

Cons

  • Proprietary blend, no full disclosure of ingredient amounts
  • Not the most affordable

Read my full in-depth Athletic Greens review.

What is Supergreen Tonik?

This brand is a relative newcomer to the greens powder scene, one that I have developed from the ground up to be everything I wanted in a daily health supplement.

My criteria were simple, a greens powder that supplied a potent source of greens and adaptogenic herbs to promote not only health and well-being but to boost both cognitive and immune function too.

Having suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for 25 years I wanted the ultimate nutritional insurance to support my diet and combat my low immune system and frequent brain fog (you can read my story here).

After researching most of the popular greens superfoods, even trying over 40 of them, I knew what would work and what wouldn’t. SuperGreen TONIK is the result of my research.

Supergreen tonik front and back label

Pros

  • Packed with 38 ingredients in clinical dosages to fuel your body and mind
  • Full transparency labelling – know what you’re taking
  • 365-day money-back guarantee
  • Refreshing and tasty in water or smoothies

Cons

  • Not the most affordable

Related: check out this AG1 vs Supergreen Tonik comparison.

Athletic Greens Vs. SuperGreen Tonik Benefits

Athletic Greens

This is one of the most popular daily greens as it's marketed as a comprehensive all-in-one daily supplement. You can see from the big list of ingredients that also include digestive enzymes and both prebiotics and probiotics.

It is a great choice for an all-around supplement as it offers a great source of vitamins and minerals, more than most multivitamins you find at your local supermarket.

We don't know how potent each ingredient is due to the proprietary blends though unlike SuperGreen Tonik that shows all the ingredient amounts on the label.

Supergreen Tonik

I was originally developed to combat periods of poor nutrition and to be a pick-me-up on days when I felt low on energy or my immune system was under strain. It's become my daily staple as I like to know I support both short and longer-term health – I love the taste too!

Most greens neglect or underplay brain ingredients in their formula, SuperGreen Tonik splits the formula into a green, brain, and immune blend, which is why it's marketed as the ultimate fuel for both body and mind.

These greens are developing a loyal customer base from customers who are drawn to transparency with labeling and a focus on ingredient dosing.

Athletic Greens Vs SuperGreen Tonik Ingredients

Athletic Greens

The formula here contains a huge number of 75 ingredients that are divided amongst four proprietary blends. So, whilst we can see the weight of each blend we are in the dark as to the quantity of each ingredient in the blend.

Unfortunately, this practice is the case for most greens powders who wish to “hide” the formula. I dislike this practice as it makes it impossible to work out if the dosages are insufficient.

The serving size is comparable between Athletic Greens and SuperGreen Tonik with each scoop being 12 grams. The focus for this brand is very much on providing as many ingredients as possible into the formula.

Athletic Greens supplement label

Supergreen Tonik

In contrast here, the formula contains 15 ingredients and 18 vitamins and minerals. They are split into three blends focusing on key areas; Greens blend, Nootropic blend, and Immune blend.

The nootropic blend of ingredients is a powerful, carefully selected group of ingredients known to support increased focus and concentration along with helping to reduce anxiety and stress. The net effect of these is to reduce brain fog and increase brain health.

I wanted to be fully transparent and reveal the exact breakdown of each ingredient in the blend so ALL ingredient amounts are disclosed.

This means it’s easy to check that the dosing is sufficient to support the claims made by SuperGreen TONIK.

A glance at the label and the dosages of the key ingredients of Spirulina, Chlorella, Ashwagandha, Rhodiola Rosea, Gingko Bilbo, etc are shown in the minimum effective dosages.

Supergreen TONIK supplement label

Athletic Greens Vs Supergreen Tonik Taste

Athletic Greens

For me, Athletic Greens (AG1) is one of my favorite tasting greens that I have tried over the last 18 months!

To get around the issue of greens tasting like grass, both formulas use Stevia Leaf extract, a natural sweetener with zero calories. This is an acquired taste and some consumers struggle with this sweetener, for me, I enjoyed the taste.

Supergreen Tonik

When I started working on the taste of Green Tonik, I knew it was up against stiff competition about Athletic Greens.

For 100% transparency here I believe we got pretty close, but we have to bow to the high bar set by Athletic Greens.

The fresh minty slightly sweet taste of Supergreen Tonik is enjoyable and palatable with just cool water. It’s refreshing and most consumers really like it, some rave about it and can’t believe it can be so healthy for you!

Adam drinking SuperGreen TONIK

Athletic Greens Vs SuperGreen Tonik Cost

Athletic Greens

Both of these brands are at the premium end of the market, but deciding to go for the Athletic Greens monthly subscription reduces your cost to around $2.90 per day (plus shipping).

Many customers may be unaware that there is a shipping cost to add to the monthly $77 cost of the greens, likewise when you opt for the one-off $97 option.

This makes the serving cost range from $2.90 to $3.56.

Supergreen Tonik

There is no subscription option available yet with Supergreen Tonik and instead, there are options to buy the tubs in bundles of one, three, or five.

The starter tub is $87, three tubs for $227, and six tubs for $377.

Better Ingredients. No Proprietary Blends. From as low as $2.09 per day (multi-bundle packages)

Buying the larger bundles will give significant savings that means the daily serving cost can be as low as $2.09.

It’s worth noting that all USA orders have free shipping too, so there are no additional costs at the checkout (International orders do have shipping costs).

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Supergreen TONIK and glass

Athletic Greens Vs SuperGreen Tonik: Which is Better?

Both these brands have something great to offer for anyone looking to cover their nutritional bases each day with ease by consuming a glass of great-tasting greens.

The reason I developed Supergreen Tonik instead of just taking Athletic Greens is that I prefer to go with a supplement with fewer ingredients with full disclosure labeling . This way I am confident that I am consuming the right dosages of each for maximum effectiveness.

I like the fact that the choice of ingredients in Supergreen Tonik is focused on greens, the brain, and the immune system. Every ingredient is in the formula for a reason.

In terms of cost, with the free USA shipping and option to buy multi-tubs, Supergreen Tonik works out significantly cheaper than Athletic Greens.

When combined with the one-year money-back guarantee, SuperGreen Tonik I believe is the better option.

To pick a winner over Athletic Greens or Supergreen Tonik I would of course pick my brand, I drink it every day. I developed the brand with the benefit of hindsight, knowing exactly what I would want from a top greens brand, and I believe we achieve it.

Adam Author

About the LifeHacker Guy

Hi, I'm Adam the founder of the LifeHacker Guy.

I have a First Class Honours degree in Sports Science from Brighton University, specialising in exercise physiology and nutrition. In my youth I was a competitive Triathlete and long-distance runner placing top 10 in most triathlon races I completed.

Since suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I moved into web development, after a couple of years I then moved onto developing a number of online businesses. I've recently taken a sabbatical and I'm now looking to make big changes in my life, hopefully this may resonate with you - join me in my journey!

8 comments

  1. How much AG 1 cost i live in Toronto Canada you sen things to Canada? what is the sidfect i am Debate typo
    2 i have high blood presser an sid fect if any

    Carl

  2. Athletic Greens tasted bad to us. It had an initial flavor that was not too bad, then it had the aftertaste of wheatgrass and maybe something else that was really off-putting. Why anyone wants to put grasses into their green drinks is beyond me. Wheatgrass and barley grass are best avoided by celiacs and anyone with sensitivities or allergies to wheat. Whether they are gluten free depends on when they are harvested.
    Aside from that particular health caveat, they both have a really nasty taste. Since it is possible to get the nutrients from other green sources, why put them in there? You have to try to cover those flavors up with something. And you cannot completely cover them up no matter what you do.

  3. Hello there Adam, very interested in the product you’ve created here. I am interested as to why mushrooms weren’t chosen to be included in SVT? I am also curious if you have or would mind doing some type of comparison between your product and Garden of Life’s vitamin code men’s multi-vitamin. I have compared that product to Athletic Greens directly and believe it has just about all contents that are inside a scoop of AG1 at much more affordable price range. Very interested in your reply and thoughts on this. Thanks so much!

    1. Hey Casey,
      Thanks for your reply. I will take a look at Garden of Life’s product and see what I can see.
      In terms of mushrooms, these are included in our newly released reds superfood, you can check out the Red tonik review here. This has cordyceps mushroom in the formula.
      Adam

      1. Awesome, thanks for the quick response and i’ll take a look at the Red tonik next. Is it recommended to take both the supergreen tonik in combination with the Red every day? Please let me know your thoughts on the GoL multi-vitamins. Thanks again!

  4. How many probiotics are in your drink? I’m surprised you advertise it as having probiotics but don’t list the amount.

    1. Hi Jenny,
      We do not have any probiotics inside SuperGreen TONIK. This may seem unusual considering many greens powders do contain them, but there is a good reason for this. Probiotics are very delicate ingredients and are not very stable when mixed with many ingredients in a formula. This means the effectiveness of probiotics when combined with many ingredients is put into question. We wanted to ensure we only put in ingredients that we know can have a positive health benefit and that was why we decided not to put this in there just for “window dressing”.
      Adam

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