"I have been using this product for years. I tried a few other “Prebiotic” powders and didn’t particularly like them and found a couple more that had ingredients I am allergic to. This isn’t the best prebiotic powder because it doesn’t have the highest prebiotic ingredients in it such as Jerusalem artichoke and chicory root which I have read are the best prebiotic ingredients of natural foods. I can’t eat chicory root because it is related to lettuce and I am allergic to lettuce. There are a few things about this product that can be irritating such as mixing it. It tends to clump. Recently I have found using room temperature water and real glass and slowly tapping in the powder while stirring it. Most of the time it won’t clump. Sometime it just doesn’t matter and it clumps. I use a fork to stir it with and when I’m done if it has clumped I pull out the clumps with the fork and just eat them. It tastes fine to me and I really don’t like their other orange flavored product. Here is my real issue with this company. On the bag you will see that it says 32 servicing and the serving size is 1 tablespoon. After a few months of using it I was pretty sure I wasn’t getting that many servings out of a bag so I started keeping track. The most I could get out of it was 15 Tbs of a leveled off Tbs and shaking the bag before use to add in some air and make it fluffier just to give them a little advantage. But 15 was it. I wrote the company and here is the response that I received from them:

“Thank you for your interest in Garden of Life’s products. We completely understand your concern. Using a measure scoop is not the most adequate way to measure. The most truest way to measure is using a food scale. One serving is equal to 6 grams. Tablespoons may differ from tablespoon to tablespoon because some people level it and some people take a heaping tablespoon, some people tap it to level it off. It is nearly impossible to get the same amount with every tablespoon . If you weigh it on a food scale using 6 grams per serving you will achieve 32 servings.”

Ok, I don’t have a food scale and don’t want to waste time weighing this every time I started to use it so I just started experimenting with smaller serving sizes to see how I could get 32 servings out of the bag. I started with a half Tbs and I got 30 servings out of the bag. I did this for 2 months and it stayed consistent for that number. So that’s what I’m using now is 1/2 Tbs. It would be interesting to see if that really correlates to their 6G’s but obviously 1 Tbs does not. There may be some differences in Tbs sizes but not to the point of halving the size of the advertised number of servings. If any one has a kitchen scale it would be interesting to see what you came up with on Tbs and 6 grams of this product. I think they should figure it out themselves and put a realistic delivery size on the bag. I do think that there is a lot of settling of the contents of the bag and that is why I shake it up so it get so air and get fluffier but still 1 Tbs is just not correct not matter what they say. I will continue to use this product because I like it and it’s convenient to get and it works well with the probiotics that I take."

"I like it cause has no junks in it and it’s rather effective. ????????????????"

"First…They really should change the product statement that it dissolves easily in your drink…It’s fiber! I think I’d have questioned the product if it actually did dissolve that way…That said, you’ll save yourself drinking lumps if you just put the serving size into a 1/4 cup of water (or whatever liquid you’re drinking it in) in a water bottle, and shake it up…If you want ZERO lumps, let it sit a few hours and you’re good to go! I drink mine in my iced tea, or iced coffee throughout the day so I will add several daily servings to a 1/2 bottle of water, shake and leave it in the fridge to use over the next few days…It’s fiber, so whether you mix it day of, or ahead it’s still the same…
I’ve been using this product for quite a few years and it was key in healing my gut…I had a fistula (if you don’t know what that is, well neither did I, but pain wise was as bad as a kidney stone!). Rx meds I was on 8 years ago caused my bowels to absorb less water creating a rock pile in my gut…That in turn wore a hole in one section that wore a hole in another section of my bowels (a fistula) creating a new passageway…although nothing was gonna pass through it! That resulted in a 7 day hospital stay on IV antibiotics and ZERO food or liquids by mouth…TORTUROUS!! Everyday they mentioned surgery to fix it after the infection was gone…When I was discharged I set myself a plan with my family Dr. to get off the all medications while simultaneously eating higher fiber foods, upping my probiotics and adding GOL prebiotic fiber daily…I never had the surgery they were pushing on me and my colonoscopy done this month revealed a perfect pipes…They couldn’t even find scar tissue where the fistula had been, also no diverticulitis, or polyps to biopsy…
So I can say without hesitation that this product saved me and made me healthier by healing my gut…THAT is my experience…I am not a doctor and cannot say it will heal any dis-eases…What I can say is, if your gut is healthy, you will be healthy!
Thanks for reading this mini novel…LOL
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