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Organifi Red Juice Review: Benefits, Drawbacks, And Comparison

Want to increase the oxygen in your blood cells? Then eat beetroot! Or, even better, don’t eat actual whole beetroot, just drink Organifi Red Juice!

This is one of the powerful health claims for this easy-to-use health food product. It’s a common sell, the individual health properties of single ingredients, which a customer’s mind might build up to a picture of overall health improvement.

It’s at the core of the Superfood movement.

The makers of Organifi Red Juice powders might already be familiar to you from the Organifi Green Juice, their most popular product (the ‘world’s best-tasting superfood blend’).

These blends have been invented in order to help people to get their daily fix of veggies without having to shop, chop and blend, and I’m going to take a bit of a closer look at the claims, ingredients, and background of this product.

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Check out my comparison between Organifi Green Juice and Red Juice if you're confused which brand is best.

What is Organifi Red Juice?

The website for Organifi is plain and clean, modern, with heaps of positive information about the company and its products. They claim to ‘raise the standards’ in the industry, leaving you to assume this is through the research that has gone into their products.

The claims (or their ‘pledge’ to customers) are that their superfoods blends are ‘clinically tested and time-proven, backed up by ‘countless testimonials and clinical trials’.

Wait, they’ve actually done clinical trials on their products?

Well, that’s impressive!! This, to me, is a bit of a teaser, and I’d love to know more about their scientific methods and clinical trials… so I did a little snooping around.

The website does indeed have a section called Clinical Trials. However, I really think this section should be renamed “blog” as the ‘trials’ are all articles with titles such as ‘Lose fat with these 5 science-backed methods, and under the section ‘drink green juice’ is a trial (listed on PubMed) which looked at pure vegetable juice diets for people with metabolic syndrome and as part of a calorie-controlled DASH diet.

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Check out the other Organifi supplements here.

So, and I’ve gone on a bit of a tangent here, suffice to say that I’m not convinced these clinical trials they are talking about are regarding their own research on their own actual products. I’m a bit disappointed now.

Claiming that you are ‘raising standards’ due to ‘clinical trials’ leads customers down a dead-end path. Anyway, as I said, tangent! So on with the Organifi Red Juice review!

Other red powders I have reviewed you may be interested in:

Background on Organifi supplements

The company founder, Drew Canole, is a ‘rockstar in the world of fitness, nutrition, and mindset’. He has founded Fitlife.tv and Organifi as vehicles for passing on his passion for health, fitness, and wellbeing.

In an all-too-familiar story, Canole was pursuing a career in finance (earning a six-figure salary), but his health was suffering. On a particularly stressful afternoon at the office, he was offered a green juice, and the rest is – as they say – history. He built a whole community around his journey back to health and wellbeing through juicing and, cleverly, developed products to sell to this community.

The company, Organifi, sells juice powders, supplements, and fitness accessories.

They also give a portion of sales to Vitamin Angels, a charity that helps undernourished children worldwide to achieve better nutrition.

From a personal perspective, I like these motives, and I like the way you are taken on a journey to share in the vision of the company, furthermore, the founder is inspirational himself.

But let’s take a closer look at the Organifi Red Juice powder, what’s in the bottle and what it claims to do because I’m all about the facts.

Drew Canole Fitlife TV

Organifi Red Juice Ingredients

The tagline for Organifi Red Juice is ‘A “Tart-Sweet” Custom Brew With The HOTTEST Fat Melting And “Skin-Firming” Superfoods In The World’.

So what are the superfoods included in the blend? Are they fat-melting? What is skin-firming?

Antioxidant Berry Blend (2100mcg):

Organic Pomegranate Powder Juice, Organic Cranberry Powder, Organic Blueberry Juice Powder, Organic Raspberry, Organic Strawberry

Endurance Blend (3050mcg)

Organic Beet Root Powder, Organic Cordyceps, Organic Reishi Mushroom Extract.

Metabolic Boosting Blend (1300mcg)

Organic Acai Juice Powder, Organic Rhodioia, Organic Siberian Ginseng

Other Ingredients

Organic Artichoke Inulin, Natural Berry Flavor, Malic Acid, Monk Fruit Extract Flavor

There are some powerful antioxidant and nutritionally-dense ingredients included, so this is a real positive for this product, and you can tell that it would taste good from the high concentration of berries.

Organifi red juice supplement label

However, and the more eagle-eyed of you fellow reviewers may have noticed this too, it is made up of a proprietary blend. There are no weighted measurements or break-downs for the individual ingredients within the blends, leading me to be unclear on how much of each ingredient I’m actually getting in a serving.

And now for the claims. Blueberries can help with memory (source) – because of their high Anthocyanin content – which helps to improve brain activity, but I’m struggling to find a link to fat-melting and better skin.

I even searched on the site for ‘skin-firming’ and, well, nada. So I looked for ‘fat-melting’ instead. There are hundreds of results. But from my first pass, I can’t see any ingredients in Red Juice.

Taking individual ingredients back to Examine, then. Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is more commonly taken to combat fatigue, and the standard dose is 300-1200mg.

As you can tell from a blend in which it is included that weighs in total of 1300mcg this is hardly a standard dose. So, there is no way enough Ginseng is present in Organifi Red Juice!

Organifi Red Juice New tubs

How Does Organifi Red Juice Taste?

Claiming to be a ‘tart-sweet’ taste, you can tell from the ingredients that the overriding flavor of this will be a sweet cherry taste. It may well be pleasant, but there’s not much it needs to mask as the other ingredients are in fairly low quantities.

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Side Effects

You might experience a little digestive discomfort when taking a drink of Organifi Red Juice for the first time due to the combination of new and fruit-based ingredients in your system.

It’s also wise to check whether any of the ingredients have been known to cause you any problems in the past.

Does Organifi Red Juice Actually Work?

I’ve written a little above about my reluctance to believe that proprietary blends give me enough of what I want. I’m on a personal journey, one which I hope will bring me to the enlightened discovery of the best greens powder. I had hoped that with the Organifi brand I would be looking in the right place, but with these measures, I’m just not sure.

Let me take a look at some more of the ingredients.

Pomegranates: thought to have antioxidant properties (no suggested dosage).

Cranberry, Blueberry, Raspberry, and Strawberry are all thought to be high in antioxidants.

So far so bland.

Beetroot may have performance enhancement properties in endurance athletes (research is inconclusive), due to high nitrate content.

The mushrooms (cordyceps and reishi) are commonly used in Chinese and traditional medicine for anti-aging purposes, but these claims are yet to be researched in human trials.

It’s not looking as though I can get an answer on the individual properties of each ingredient….they must be in such small amounts within each blend

A preliminary trial of acai found that it may reduce blood cholesterol levels, but further studies are needed.

It’s not looking as though I can get an answer on the individual properties of each ingredient, and as I’ve said already, they must be in such small amounts within each blend I almost can’t even be bothered to look at how much I would have to take to see any improvements!!

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Organifi Red Juice Customer Reviews

Customers, on the other hand, seem to be very pleased with the results, with 568 positive reviews on their own website ranging from ‘I feel and look better!’ to ‘It helps decrease my stress and mental focus’. I’m a bit bemused by how these improvements have come about due to a daily (quite small) dose of this stuff, but I could be persuaded.

Amazon reviewers have a slightly more mixed view, with average reviews of 3.4 stars, and around 50% giving 5 stars.

I feel more energy after I use it5 star reviewer

Gritty and tastes mediciny. Very expensive for little results3 star reviewer

Too expensive3 star reviewer.

Money Back Guarantee / Returns Policy

Organifi has a 60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked, on the return of the empty bottle.

This is impressive. But I do find myself asking whether there really would be no questions asked… Actually, on further examining the wording of the guarantee, it looks as though there are a few hoops to jump through, such as calling a phone number to get a ticket to authorize the return. Although quite common and not surprising, it’s not really as easy as you would initially think.

Where to Buy Organifi Red Juice?

You can purchase bottles of Organifi Red Juice powder at their online store.

You can also take a look at Amazon.com to see all of Organifi's supplement range.

Is It Worth the Price?

Organifi sells Red Juice on its own website at $69.95 USD for a 30-day supply, so it is not at the most expensive end of the range for nutrient powder or green juice blends. You can also save when you buy 3 or more bottles, for $178.38 USD (saving you $59).

But here’s the thing, if you don’t know how much of a particular ingredient you’re getting, then you can’t really be certain that the price represents good value for money. I would probably rather spend that much money per month buying fruit to put in a smoothie, or just eating beetroot!!

Organifi Red Juice

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Red Juice: The Bottom Line

In the world of super greens, a red juice powder stands out.

Organifi has a savvy approach to its marketing, they have built a community willing and able to buy into the brand and try all their innovations.

But my real concern with this blend is how little they have included in it.

It’s relatively easy, I suppose in a Greens blend to include lots of nutritionally-heavyweight ingredients. Greens tend to be packed full of nutritional value. With berries, I just can’t see why you wouldn’t eat them. I also don’t feel that Organifi Red Juice has a lot of added value.

The portion amount is quite small, the amounts of each ingredient, therefore, must be minimal, which means that – for a relatively inexpensive blend amongst the competition – it works out to be poor value for money.

I would stick with the Greens over the Reds and probably look for a more transparent brand in their labeling. Sorry Reds, you’re not for me!

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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!

7 comments

  1. ADAM!!!! I’d there any way you could send a sample of that red powder in to a place that could do a chemical analysis and then you would know EXACTLY how much per serving people were getting?? Just an idea.

    1. Hi Jason,
      There are certainly labs where you can do a full analysis of a supplement but the cost can be prohibitive. A big part of me thinks why should consumers have to do this?
      Surely, it makes sense to know EXACTLY what you’re consuming before buying it.
      The use of proprietary blends seems to be the norm and not the exception 0 this is very frustrating.
      Adam

  2. To whom it’s may concern just would like to know does it really lower your blood sugar and cholesterol level if so. I would like to place a order on some to really try lower cholesterol because it little elevated and for my blood sugar.

  3. I have bought the green and red juice. I don’t know how people feel energy from one scoop! I have had to take several scoops during the day.

    It has helped me but it is way too expensive only about 8 ounces.

    What do you suggest for clean energy? I am so upset it costs so much but helps. Not just one scoop though everyone is different

  4. So have you found a red, or green, or gold for that matter, drink that you find acceptable? I bought the trifecta at $141 plus shipping and though I really like them I’m not positive they’re doing as much as they could if they were in the appropriate servings. I love the idea but I find it too expensive to keep taking, it took me hours to find a 25% off coupon code to get it that cheap. I’m going to try to return when I finish the bottles. I guess the best way to tell of it works is to see how I feel after stopping?

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