These powders are packed with nutrient-dense fruits and veggies, vitamins, and minerals, but don’t think of them as replacements for the real thing. Instead, they’ll give a potent boost to your morning or post-workout beverage. Even better, they’re entirely portable and don’t taste half bad.
1. Nuun鈥檚 ($30 for 60 servings) adds vitamins A through E to your water, and not a single gram of sugar.
2. The raisins, eggplant, and other fruits and veggies that make up Health 颅Kismet鈥檚 ($40 for 30 servings) are high in antho颅cy颅anins, which con颅trol blood-sugar levels and 颅assist cognitive function.
3. Just because you鈥檙e 颅traveling doesn鈥檛 mean you have to downgrade your diet. Aloha鈥檚 ($19 for six servings) contains two helpings of fruits and vegetables, including moringa, one of the planet鈥檚 most nutri颅ent-dense foods, and spirulina for your protein fix.
4. Studies have shown that the nitric oxide in beets can increase stamina during 颅exercise. But eating enough of them on race day? No fun. Neogenis Sport ($30 for ten servings) promises the boost without the GI distress; each packet contains the nutrients of six beets.
5. Why eat blueberries in 颅powder form? Because they don鈥檛 pack well and they鈥檙e expensive when they aren鈥檛 in season. Arctic Power 颅Berries ($12 for ten servings) crushes more than a pound of them into each 50-gram bag.
6. Turmeric is a natural anti-inflammatory, thanks to the antioxidant curcumin, which blocks the molecules related to chronic swelling. MegaFood鈥檚 ($20 for 30 servings) mixes easily into a smoothie and doesn鈥檛 make it taste like, well, turmeric.
Get Yours Custom-Made: ($65 per month) is like a bespoke tailor. The company determines your specific deficiencies via an exhaustive questionnaire, then mixes up a special batch and mails it to you. The nutrition label can get encyclopedic, but the powder comes in simple chocolate or vanilla.