How to Tell Genuine Hoodia Gordonii from the Rest

A quick search on the World Wide Web will bring you thousands of results for the term Hoodia. Companies near and far all want to sell you the genuine deal at an amazing price. The bad news is 80% are fake products.

If the ingredients list says the product contains Hoodia how can the product be a fake ?

What part of the Hoodia plant is being used in the product?
Products that do not tell you what type of Hoodia is being used are more than likely a fraud. They have used the wrong type of Hoodia and do not want to tell you.

There are thirteen Hoodia plant types; out of this 13, there is only one, the Hoodia Gordonii that contains P57. This active ingredient suppresses your appetite.

Hoodia Gordonii- Which part of the plant was used?

P57 is the only ingredient you need from the Hoodia Gordonii plant and it is only found in the aerial stem or the core. The leaves, flowers and roots offer nothing for weight loss.

A company who uses the whole plant in their supplement is not producing a product that has 100% Hoodia Gordonii in it. These kinds of supplements only provide you with about 60% of the plants active ingredient.

What other ingredients are there?
This may seem a bit confusing but a company can theoretically claim 100% Hoodia Gordonii on the label while producing a supplement that is less than that.

Exporting Hoodia can be expensive, it is on the endangered species list and harvests are monitored. To cover for lack of Gordonii many companies add things like caffeine.

The real problem is you will have a greatly reduced chance of seeing significant weight loss because of these watered down supplements. Companies who claim 100% pure Hoodia Gordonii in their products that are not, are not breaking any laws.

Extract or Pure?

Anyone who is selling Hoodia Gordonii will not be using an extract. The reason for that is the extract is not 100% Hoodia. You are actually getting 60% of the Gordonii core. They fill in the blanks with caffeine and other fillers like mentioned above. All of which are inactive and ineffectual for weight loss.

You see there are too many Hoodia products failing these tests because of money saving tactics of the company. They cut cost by only using a minute amount of the plant, which is also how they get away with advertising it as pure Hoodia Gordonii.
How can customers protect themselves? The answer is to start by remembering the four points above. Then read the ingredients very carefully before you buy.

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