Balance Of Nature fruit and vegetable capsules. [View all]

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I keep the TV on for background noise while I'm working at my desk.

Commercials for this product are on many times per day.

How is this not a complete and obvious scam?

I can't find a picture of the label for these capsules that is large enough to be readable on DU, but here's an amazon link in which you can zoom in on the labels. Go to the second picture and hover over it to zoom in:

https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Nature-Vegetable-Supplement-Tablets/dp/B07KQWXRGM

The red bottle is fruit. let's take a look at that.

It appears that these capsules are loaded with dried and powdered fruit of all types, listed as different types of "blends".

A serving size is THREE capsules that gives you two whole grams of carbs, that's all...2 grams (less than 1% of the recommended daily value).

3 capsules gives you the following:

Maintain blend 731 mg
Protect blend 719 mg
Repair blend 561 mg

Total mg of powdered fruit is 2,011 mg or just over 2 grams of fruit.

An apple weighs between 150 grams 250 grams Let's call it 200 grams.

So an apple is giving you about 100 times more fruit than 3 of these capsules are.

So eat an apple, a banana, maybe a few grapes everyday, and you are getting many many more times the amount of fruit than three of these expensive capsules are giving you.

There are no other ingredients (beneficial or otherwise) listed on the bottle of capsules.

So, this soft spoken "doctor" in these commercials, with his vague references to "perfect balance of ingredients" is full of shit in my opinion.

Take a little nibble from an apple or banana with your front teeth, and you're getting about as much fruit that is in these capsules.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong.