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First, ask yourself- “Does the place I am getting hoodia gordonii from allows ongoing, random, anonymous testing of their hoodia products by an independent lab?” Just as important, are they only getting by with sending in a batch sample with a lot number for testing?

Here’s why.

There are dishonest vendors who will display the lot numbers tested on their website from a lab considered to be very reputable. But, the only way to know that this constitutes irrefutable proof of their hoodia product’s strength is if the company permits ongoing, anonymous, and random testing of the actual product that is sold to the consumer. This should be completely verifiable, and also the testing should be done where the vendor doesn’t know the exact testing place, where the products are bought from nor when the product was purchased. The results from such testing should be displayed right on the testing laboratorie’s websites.

Question #2 Purity? Is there an easy way to check to see if the hoodia product is made stricly from pure South African Hoodia Gordonii? There should be no additives or fillers.

There is a way to determine the purity of the hoodi gordonii. Looking at the label, check under the “Supplement Facts” section on the label. If it declares specifically that there are no additives, this will be apparent by your seeing the word “None” in the “Other Ingredients” section of the label. If there is anything else listed, then it’s not pure hoodia.

There is a trick known as the “O.I. (Other Ingredients) trick. Unless the manufacturer lists the other ingredients as “None”, then it can list other fillers and additives as “Other Ingredients” and they can legally say that the product’s full gross weight as being true Hoodia Gordonii.

The manufacturers are allowed by the government to use “flow agents” to make the manufacturing process easier.

The use of silica, cellulose, magnesium stereate, etc. can be easily avoided. However, scammers know that simply by declaring them on their labels as “Other Ingredients,” they can exploit a gaping loophole in the law at the customer’s expense. Therefore, they continue to do so.

Through the use of the high compression encapsulation techniques on the market these days, it’s not necessary for fillers and additives to be added- yet the “lesser” known companies continue to do this, and still be able to call it “pure”. Do you want “cheap” lesser potency hoodia, or potent and effective hoodia that’s “pure”?

Avoid the common “Bait and Switch” practice in which less than reputable vendors spoon-feed the lab a genuine sample, but then sell the public a counterfeit or watered-down product.

Question #3: Is the hoddia that you are wanting to purchase claim to be Hoodia Gordonii of South African origin, or just plain “hoodia”? There are more than 20 varieties of Hoodia known to man, and the only one that has been proven to reduce calorie intake in humans is the South African hoodia. If you see “Chinese Hoodia” for example, you should consider it counterfeit.

Question #4: Which part of the hoodia plant is the product made from? It should be made from the biologically active part of the Hoodia gordonii Succulent. You’ll also need to know if the vendor uses only the peeled stem of the Hoodia gordonii plant.

Never buy Hoodia gordonii from companies using the “whole plant” or anything other than the peeled stems; such a product would automatically contain at least 50% less of Hoodia gordonii’s active constituents necessary for effective appetite suppression.

You don’t want the root, nor the flowers, nor the bark. The P-57 part of the plant- or “peeled stem” is the part of the hoodia plant that you want.

Question #5: Potency. Are you sure that the hoodia that you are buying is of the highest potency that’s possible? Does the company and/or it’s farmers cultivate the hoodia patiently for the best potency? This takes atleast 3.5 years before they harvest the stems.

When you get hoodia milled from immature plants, it may test “positive” for Hoodia , but will have insufficient P57 to suppress your appetite. Hoodia loses it’s strength when exposed to or dried in open sunlight, in kilns above a certain tempeature, or when milled above certain micron levels.

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