What a filler is, and why ours has none

Turn over a lot of greens powders and you’ll find maltodextrin near the top of the ingredients. Here’s what it’s doing there — and what it’s costing you.

Fruit and vegetable juices are sugary and pull moisture from the air, so they clump. Dry a juice with high heat and the sugars turn sticky and gum up the equipment. The industry’s fix is a starch carrier, usually maltodextrin, that raises the temperature at which the sugars go sticky so they survive the heat.

Maltodextrin is a cheap starch that digests fast and spikes blood sugar. The plant doesn’t need it. The hot process does. And it takes up room: a hot-dried fruit or vegetable powder is commonly 10 to 40% carrier, and more than half for some orange juice powders — that share of every scoop, and of what you paid for, is starch.

Dry a juice cold and the stickiness never shows up, so the carrier is never needed. That’s how Daily Greens and Adaptogens lands at ten named ingredients with nothing added to bulk it out.

So when you read a greens label: if the plant is near the top and the starch is nowhere, you’re buying the plant. If maltodextrin is in the first few ingredients, you’re buying starch with some plant in it.

A hot-dried juice powder is commonly 10 to 40% maltodextrin. Ours has none.

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