HEALTH

Turmeric powder looks innocent: yellow dust in a jar, a slightly earthy smell. But it carries thousands of years of culinary history and a hefty pile of scientific research behind it. In India, it ends up in almost every curry; in Poland, it’s increasingly found in a morning smoothie or a cup of golden milk…

Spirulina Powder is an intensely green, almost emerald powder with a distinct, sea-like taste, which is increasingly finding its way into shopping carts alongside other algae and superfoods. This is the eighth article in our superfood series – we’ve previously written about moringa, acai, chlorella, baobab, guarana, ashwagandha and maca. This time we’re checking what…

Maca powder is a pale yellow powder with a mild, caramel-like flavour that increasingly finds its way into morning smoothies instead of coffee, or right alongside it. The plant it comes from grows where few other crops manage to survive: at an altitude of 3,500–5,000 metres above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, in thin,…

The name „ashwagandha” comes from Sanskrit and roughly translates to „smell of a horse” – in Ayurveda, this was meant to symbolise the strength and stamina that consuming the root of this plant was believed to provide. Today, ashwagandha powder usually ends up not with warriors, but in a glass of warm plant-based milk, sipped…

You open the pack and the first thing that hits you is the smell: dark chocolate, a bit of bark, a bitter note in the background. Guarana powder looks a bit like cocoa, but it works completely differently. We already wrote more broadly about what guarana is and where its stimulating effect comes from in…

A bowl of powdered baobab smells like freshly squeezed lemon, only without the juice. This light beige powder from the African savannah rounds off our small superfoods range alongside moringa, acai berries and chlorella — and out of all four, it’s probably the easiest to fall for from the very first spoonful. Baobab is the…

You type “yerba mate and blood sugar” into a search engine and land on two kinds of articles. The first promise that yerba mate “regulates blood glucose” and almost replaces a visit to a diabetologist. The second scare you with caffeine. Both approaches are dishonest. In this article we lay it out clearly: what is…

Yerba mate and blood pressure is a question that keeps coming back to us — in emails, on the hotline and in comments. And that’s fair, because it’s a reasonable question. The answer, without beating around the bush: yerba mate contains caffeine, and caffeine can briefly raise blood pressure in some people. Usually by a…

Switching to a plant-based diet and doing a pantry check? Yerba Mate will pass this check without a hitch. Yerba Mate for vegans is a shorter topic than you might think — the dried leaves are simply dried leaves and small twigs of the Paraguayan holly, a plant grown in South American plantations. No gelatine,…

Chlorella powder looks unassuming: a small bag of intensely green dust with a smell reminiscent of a pond after rain. Yet it’s one of the most popular superfoods of recent years — and it’s easy to see why. In 100 g of this powder there’s 60 g of plant protein, a solid portion of fibre,…

For years, acai berries were reserved for surfers on the Brazilian coast and regulars at trendy breakfast bars. Today, the purple powder sits on more and more Polish kitchen shelves — and rightly so, since few fruits combine such an intense colour with such a solid nutritional content. In this guide, we check what properties…

Yerba mate with guarana is a blend for those for whom classic yerba is no longer enough, but who never got along with coffee and canned energy drinks either. In Ultra Energy — Yerbador’s strongest composition — Brazilian holly leaf meets ground guarana seeds. The boost comes quickly, but it doesn’t end with a sudden…