“Powerful nutrition creates Powerful Health!” claims the website for Dr. Schulze, a brand which sounds – let’s be honest here – like it could be a bit ‘old and stuffy’, but which – it actually turns out – is a smartly-presented brand with a legacy of success and with its finger firmly on the alternative-health market pulse.
Consumers tend to be drawn to brands named ‘Doctor-something’, because it invokes a sense of professional, science-backed assurance, and it looks to me as if Dr. Schulze has quite the following.
But what really makes Dr. Schulze’s products so eye-catching is the blurb that goes along with the product.
I’ll explain more below in my Dr. Schulze Superfood review so you can make you're own informed opinion.
What is Dr. Schulze Superfood?
As I said above, what I like about the Superfood Plus website is, firstly, it sounds like an action movie, using language like ‘powerful’, ‘blasts’, ‘high-octane’. The marketing really starts to draw you in, from the first thing you read you realize that this company means serious business in terms of your health and nutrition!
To be fair, they seem to know what they are talking about with a neat visual that shows how, dollar-for-dollar, their product packs a bigger nutritional punch than competitors. So what exactly is the big deal?
A ‘vitamin and mineral herbal concentrate’, Superfood Plus claims to provide ‘daily nutrition, increased energy, improved fitness, and weight management’. Going on to say that their blend contains over 100% of your daily needs of every vitamin and mineral, you can be sure that there are no half-measures with this product.
So, intrigued as I am, what more can I find out about the brand and the product?
Background on American Botanical Pharmacy
Dr. Schulze’s story of how he founded his brand is personal, but it has to be said, not unfamiliar. Like many founders of such companies, he was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease (a heart disease) at a young age (aged 16) and, having seen both his parents die young of heart attacks, he refused surgery and instead made it his lifelong mission to find a way to heal himself through optimal nutrition.
Thus, Schulze created his first ‘healing miracle’ on himself, by becoming vegan, exercising, and radically changing his habits. He went on to pursue a career in alternative health and has a huge string of qualifications (a doctorate in Herbology, degrees as Master's Herbalist and Herbal Pharmacist, a doctorate in Natural Medicine, three degrees in Iridology, and eight certifications in various styles of body therapy).
Dr. Schulze ran Natural Healing Clinics in the States, Europe, and Asia from 1970 to 1990 and says that he learned;
5% of what he knows from school and 95% from his clinics
He says “Superfood Plus created healing miracles and saved lives”, because, according to Schulze, most of the diseases and problems his patients present with are due to a lack of nutrition.
Dr. Schulze’s range of products includes detox programs, women- and men-specific supplements, superfood bars and meal replacements, ‘intestinal formulas’, herbal ‘shots’, and single herb supplements such as echinacea. The range is broad and inclusive.
Alternative forms of Superfood Plus are also available (as tablets and in a kids’ formula) alongside the standard superfood powder version.
So what is actually inside Superfood Plus? Let’s take a look
Superfood Plus Ingredients
The ingredients listing is not perhaps as comprehensive as some competitor brands, with only 16 ingredients, but I see that as a good thing.
Focussing on fewer ingredients but in higher quantities means you could have the right dosages to make a meaningful change in your health.
Each serving is 2 tablespoons of the Superfood Plus powder which works out to be 15 grams in total. We don't get a full breakdown of each ingredient amount apart from knowing the Vitamin and mineral amounts.
Wild Harvested Spirulina Algae, Organic Blue-Green Algae, Chlorella Broken-Cell Algae, Organic Barley Grass, Organic Alfalfa Grass, Organic Wheat Grass, Organic Purple Dulse Seaweed, Organic Acerola Cherry, Organic Rose Hips, Palm Fruit, Organic Lemon Peel, Organic Orange Peel, Organic Beet Root, Organic Spinach Leaf, in a base of Dr. Schulze's Proprietary Non-Fermentable Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Yeast.
The blend is free from soy, sugar, gluten, GMOs, whey, and dairy, and is certified organic.
How Does Superfood Plus Taste?
As there is no added flavoring I am assuming that Dr. Schulze’s Superfood Plus has a generic super greens-powder taste which is to say slightly vegetal and algae-tasting.
The recommended way to drink the blend is to combine it with fruit and vegetable juice, water, and a cup of fruits or vegetables. In this way, you are getting the benefits of whole fruits and veggies as well as juice and powdered ingredients.
Side Effects
If this is your first time taking a super green blend you may experience digestive issues for a short time while your system gets used to the new ingredients. This is not to say this would be the case for everyone.
Does Superfood Plus Actually Work?
Dr. Schulze doesn’t actually give you the amounts of each ingredient in each serving, which (as you will know if you read my reviews) I find a bit annoying.
When companies do this it is called a proprietary blend, and they want to avoid imitation of their product, but we all know that if you wanted to get anything examined in a lab it wouldn’t be that hard. It also, more importantly, means it’s difficult for consumers to know exactly how much they are getting from each ingredient.
Having said this, the good thing about the blend is that there are relatively few ingredients (some super greens powders have 30+ ingredients, like Athletic Greens that has 75!!), and therefore we can assume that the ingredients are in fairly high amounts per serving. A serving is 2 tablespoons (15g), so it could be that there is 1g of each ingredient in this serving, but we’ll never know.
Spirulina is thought to have potent antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects and is recommended at a dose of between 1-8g daily for notable effects (source).
Chlorella has been studied as it is another popular ‘superfood’ ingredient, containing protein, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. It is recommended at a 6g dose daily (2g three times a day) however studies are ongoing into the provable benefits of supplementation (source).
Nutritional yeast, which is a source of protein and B-vitamins, has been used by Dr. Schulze in his clinics for years to supplement patients’ diets and has been found to have a protective effect from free-radical damage in the cells.
Unfortunately most of the studies I found to compare serving size and effects use a tablespoon, which is presumably a considerably larger serving than would be included in a scoop of Superfood Plus.
Extrapolating from my very bad maths above that in a 2 tablespoon serving you might be getting a gram of each ingredient, I would say that over time there could be an effect in that you might start to see some of the noticeable health benefits claimed on the website about Superfood Plus.
Weight loss is always a tough claim to substantiate as this of course involved numerous other factors such as exercise, willpower, and what other foods you are including in your diet. One can assume that if you simply replace a meal with a drink there may be an element of weight loss.
Superfood Plus Customer Reviews
Take a look at the testimonials on the Superfood Plus pages of the website;
My daughter introduced SuperFood Plus to me. I started taking it in May. I was amazed at the benefits I got from it. I lost 38 lbs. I never felt better! I have so much energy and now can take care of business and grandkids.D.L
when I read the reviews with everyone saying how gross this stuff was, I just assumed they were being babies. I tried absolutely everything to eat/drink this. I tried using pineapple juice, tomato juice, even mixing it with peanut butter and sugar. I made it through maybe 3 days before I knew I had to return this.Ams, 1 star
This product can be mixed with fruit or vegetable juice. It has benefited my health. However, it is gritty.Carla, 4 stars
Money Back Guarantee / Returns Policy
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Where to Buy Superfood Plus?
You can buy Superfood Plus at the official online store, at Herbdoc, and on Amazon here.
Is It Worth the Price?
The cost of a 14oz tub of Superfood Plus is $48, the capsules (390ct) are $50, and the sachets (20) are $32.
There is also a Superfood-a-month Club, a subscription model which, if you join, has you receiving a 14oz powder tub (or 39ct tablets) per month for $46.
At Dr. Schulze, they do as they say, ‘fill the vat to the very top with raw herbs’, which I think is a key point here. There is very little filler, all the ingredients seem to me to be in (what would appear to be) a decent quantity, just simply down to the relatively small number of ingredients.
I’d like to know a little more about how they go about sourcing their ingredients, but as they are certified organic I already know that this brand has integrity and is using top-quality ingredients in their products.
The Bottom Line
This is a quality product. Dr. Schulze has a proven history of operating in the Natural Health sphere his whole career, and he says he gets results. The brand and integrity are impressive.
I like Superfood Plus because, despite not being totally transparent about the amount of each ingredient in the blend, they have used just a few potent herbs, fruit, and vegetable compounds so as to really deliver the most powerful nutritional hit.
If you want a product that really packs a punch, I think Superfood Plus has the potential with its large serving size.
LifeHacker Guy Greens Recommendation
Some Call This An "Extreme" Step...
Most super greens supplements are disappointing.
I learned this the hard way. After creating this blog in 2018, I spent months buying and testing all the most popular brands.
I wasn’t happy with the results so I did something you might call "extreme"....
In 2019 I created my own brand that ticks every single box of what I look for in a super greens product:
- No hidden ingredient amounts - we have full disclosure labelling, so you know EXACTLY whats inside
- Ingredient amounts that make a difference - we include the minimum effective amounts supported by research, and most of the time, MORE
- Ingredients that help immunity, boost mental clarity and shake off brain fog - making for a much more productive and happy lifestyle
No more worrying about ineffective ingredients or too low dosages. I finally have a product I KNOW does the job it’s made to do.
I use it every day and, after years of battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), I now have my energy (and my life!) back.
The good news? I made my brand available to the public so you can see and feel the difference for yourself.
Are any of the ingredients from China I don’t see it anywhere that you address that
So I’m skeptical why don’t you just tell us where the ingredients come from
How can i buy your product because i am here in the philippines., is there any store here in our country?
Dear Mr. Wright,
You spell Dr. Schulze’s last name three different ways in your article above adding a “t” in one version, and adding a “t” while dropping the “e” in the other misspelled version. If you’re going to be a writer, do it right!
Thanks for your insight!
Van
Thanks Mr. Leftwich for highlighting this oversight. I have gone ahead and corrected these.
Glad you found it useful.
Adam
…about Dr. Schultze Superfood ingredients, my educated guess is that each batch produced may vary in quantities. Firstly, there is nothing proprietary about Schultze…he has always freely provided recipes for healing, which mostly originate from Dr. Christopher’s (his mentor) formulas.
Secondly, if you follow his history, you will quickly learn that there is nothing exact about his formulas or methods; only his brutality in executing them, lol. On the surface his treatment protocol appears to be exact, but with him it is about productivity, not precision. His history is fascinating, btw; he’s a hoot.
I have had ME/CFS for 40 years, and both of his supermeal formulas give me just as much immediate energy as fresh veggie juice. But then, so does Amazing Grass.
People should keep in mind that superfoods of any kind or quantity won’t do much on their own…that’s the honesty that makes Dr. Schultze so famous, trustworthy, and successful.
Hi. What do you mean by brutally? Thx
Curious… what is the meaning of “superfoods of any kind won’t do much on their own.”