Grown American Superfood Review: Pros and Cons, Ingredients, Cost Comparison, Customer Complaints and Is It a Scam?

This honest review of Grown American Superfood has the real ingredients, nutritional information, and the best and worst additions in this USA-grown organic green powder.

I’ll cover potential side effects, cost per serving, and where to get it without accidentally signing up for auto-shipping.

Also ahead are pros and cons, customer feedback and complaints, and if it’s worth it or overpriced compared to newer competitors.

What Is Grown American Superfood?

Grown American Superfood is a powdered supplement advertised on TV and made from 31 USDA-certified organic fruits, vegetables, greens and sprouts.

It’s produced by Van Drunen Farms who state that it’s gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free, non-GMO and vegan. They also say there’s a full serving of vegetables and half a serving of fruit in each 9.35 gram daily dose.

This green powder is promoted by Dr. Kellyann Petrucci (M.S, N.D.), a well-known American naturopathic physician and nutritionist who has written best-selling books, such as ‘The Bone Broth Diet’ and appeared on TV shows like Doctor Oz.

Let’s have a look at Grown American Superfood’s ingredients and see whether this organic superfood powder is really healthy or not.

Grown American Superfood Ingredients

There is no proper list of ingredients that I could find anywhere on the Grown American Superfood website. This is a big red flag for me personally and I’d never buy a nutritional supplement without knowing exactly what’s in it.

A page on the Van Drunen Farms previously site listed Grown American Superfood ingredients as:

• 5 Organic Concentrated Leafy Greens: Kale, Spinach, Wheatgrass, Barley Grass, Alfalfa Grass.
• 6 Organic Vegetables: Broccoli, Celery, Brussel Sprouts, Carrot, Green Bell Pepper, Pumpkin.
• 12 Organic Sprouts: Amaranth Sprout, Quinoa Sprout, Millet Sprout, Buckwheat Sprout, Garbanzo Bean Sprout, Lentil Sprout, Adzuki Sprout, Flax Sprout, Sunflower Sprout, Pumpkin Sprout, Chia Sprout, Sesame Sprout.
• 8 Organic Superfruits: Blueberry, Strawberry, Cranberry, Orange, Cherry, Lemon, Pear, Apple.

This list doesn’t full match up with the supplement facts panel on Grown American Superfood packaging though. By checking customer review pictures, as well as retail outlets like Walmart, I found the real ingredients listed in the following order:

• Apple, Kale, Apple Fiber, Natural Apple Flavor, Spirulina, Stevia Extract, Alfalfa Grass, Barley Grass, Wheatgrass, Brown Rice, Carrot, Orange, Brussel Sprouts, Cherry, Cranberry, Pear, Blueberry, Strawberry, Broccoli, Adzuki Sprouts, Quinoa Sprouts, Amaranth Sprouts, Buckwheat Sprouts, Chia Sprouts, Flax Sprouts, Garbanzo Sprouts, Lentil Sprouts, Millet Sprouts, Pumpkin Sprouts, Sesame Sprouts, Sunflower Sprouts, Lemon, Spinach, Pumpkin, Green Bell Pepper, Celery, Sunflower Oil, Sunflower Lecithin.

This ingredients list is much more helpful as it shows additions in order of volume, as per accepted convention. In this way you can understand which fruits, vegetables and sprouts are used most and which have much smaller amounts by comparison.

I personally think it’s poor business practice for Grown American Superfood to not clearly show all ingredients in this conventional format on their website. Customers really deserve to know what’s in a supplement before being asked to pay for it.

Nutritional Information

The Nutrition Facts label on this supplement lists the following information per 9.35 gram serving:

• Calories: 30; Carbohydrates: 7 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Total Sugars: 3 g; Protein: 1 g

What’s particularly notable here is the 3 grams of sugar per serve. That’s a third of the entire serving and, in my opinion, far too high for a product marketed itself as healthy.

Pros and Cons of Grown American Superfood

Pros

Having all the fruits, vegetables and sprouts in this superfood supplement certified organic and grown in America is the biggest plus or pro I can see for this product.

While many powdered greens use some organic ingredients, I can’t recall another one where every addition had USDA certification. (Update: Field of Greens reviewed here does and it’s a far healthier product).

High up on the list, the most nutritionally beneficial superfoods are kale, spirulina, barley grass and wheatgrass. Further down, blueberry, broccoli and the various sprouts are all very healthy too, though there’s a question as to how much of them the product actually contains.

Cons

Sunflower oil and sunflower lecithin are listed on the supplement facts panel but not shown on any of Grown American Superfood’s sales pages or marketing images that I could find.

Many people like myself want to avoid these additives due to their high omega-6 fat content and other health concerns. Not showing them clearly to customers could be considered deceptive by some people.

Other additions like apple, apple fiber and brown rice are high up on the supplement facts panel, yet not particularly high in nutrients compared to those lower down on the list.

Worse still, ‘natural apple flavor’ and ‘stevia extract’ are sweeteners that appear early in the ingredients list so will be in relatively large amounts. This is probably the reason why many customers say Grown American Superfood tastes so sweet. Nutritionally it is definitely a con though.

In fact, the ‘Nutrition Facts’ label lists 3 grams of total sugars per 9.35 gram serving, which makes this green powder unusually, and I would suggest unnecessarily, high in sugar content.

Directions for Use

The suggested dosage for this superfood powder is one 9.35 gram scoop from the packet per day. Used at this daily dose it will last for 28 days, a bit less than the usual 30 servings.

Dr. Kellyann’s product page suggests mixing this superfood powder in water, juice or yogurt. She also has a smoothie recipe you can add it to, though you’ll find much healthier smoothie recipes here on Superfood Profiles.

Side Effects

Grown American Superfood is promoted as non-GMO, gluten-free, soy-free and dairy-free. The company lists no side effects from their product that I could find on their website.

There are also no commonly reported negative effects that I found in customer feedback for this powdered fruit, veggies and sprouts supplement during my research.

The ingredients in this green powder shouldn’t cause side effects for the vast majority of people unless they have a known allergy to one of the foods shown on the nutrition label above.

Cost per Serving

Taking the retail price of this product from Van Drunen Farms website, currently listed as $69.95 + $4.95 shipping, you have a total cost of $74.90 for a 28-day supply.

That works out at a relatively high $2.67 per daily dose. Compared with the much healthier alternative Field of Greens, it’s really hard to justify choosing Grown American Superfood.

Customer Complaints and is Grown American Superfood a Scam?

Better Business Bureau has an B+ rating for Grown American Superfood at the time of writing, yet all 6 ratings listed there are 1 star, the lowest rating. Customer complaints appear to predominantly be regarding the 14-day free trial offer, with some people calling it a scam.

Most complaints from consumers go into detail about the difficulty in canceling their order and receiving a refund. Concerningly, some of these negative ratings also state that they were charged during the free trial and automatically sent more product than they believed they ordered.

Some may have made a mistake, but it seems poor customer service that the company has not responded to any of these complaints on a well-known business forum like BBB, leaving some very angry ex-customers with no explanation.

Amazon also has quite a few critical ratings of 1 star at the time of writing. Multiple customers complained about the small size of the product and the expensive price. Some people also called Grown American Superfood a hoax or a scam and wrote “don’t waste your money.”

More positive star ratings do outnumber the negative ones on Amazon though. Predominantly people mention more energy and losing weight as benefits they experienced of taking this green superfood powder regularly.

The taste also seems well received, with some describing the flavor as being like apple juice. This is not surprising with apple flavoring so high in the ingredients list and total sugars a full third by weight.

Final Verdict

Everything written in this review of Grown American Superfood is only my personal opinion based on detailed research and over 10 years of experience writing about nutritional products.

Nothing here should be taken as criticism of any individual or company and personal results will always vary with supplements, which can often explain customer complaints.

When I started researching Grown American Superfood powder I was impressed that every fruit and vegetable in it is both certified organic and grown in America. With concerns about farming practices in countries like China, that’s clearly a big plus.

That advantage is much less relevant in today’s market though with nutritionally superior yet cheaper products like 1UP Nutrition Greens and Reds or Organifi Green Juice also being 100% organic.

The ingredients list, while predominately healthy, is heavily let down by too much apple, apple fiber and particularly apple flavoring. There are also far too many unnecessary sweeteners and additives in the ‘other ingredients’ section of the supplement label for my liking.

The various sprouts are a novel and nutritionally potent addition, but they are in such small amounts it’s unlikely there’s enough of them to make a difference.

Then there’s the high costs of taking Grown American Superfood to consider. I honestly can’t see why you wouldn’t choose the bigger and far better Brickhouse Nutrition Field of Greens.

If Van Drunen Farms wants to be a serious competitor in the nutritional greens market it should really look at improving its formulation, addressing customer complaints about the free trial, and lowering the product’s price tag.

If you’ve never used a powdered superfood supplement like this before you’d probably feel better and get some benefit from using it regularly. Grown American Superfood is not recommended though due to its high sugar ingredients and excessive cost.