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The Best Alternative to Vitamin Capsules or Tablets | UK

by Hamza Jamal |

Whether it's the chalkiness, size, or taste, vitamin capsules and tablets can be unpleasant things to get down for many people. 

The good news is that if capsules and tablets give you the ick, you can replace them with more palatable options like super greens—powdered vegetables, fruits, and other extracts that you mix with water for a refreshing vitamin boost. 

Of course, dissolvable vitamins are nothing new (you might have tried effervescent multivitamins), but super greens are nutritionally superior with whole foods and exciting health-boosting ingredients like algae and fungi. 

One such product is vybey Braincare Smart Greens, which contains 54 vitamins, minerals, and whole foods that cover every nutritional base. 

These include vegetable and fruit powders that preserve some fibre and carbohydrates to give you more than just a vitamin boost—and this is the clear advantage smart greens have over vitamin capsules: they are more nutritionally complete. 

Wholefood power

Wholefood powders and extracts harness the nutritional power of dehydrated fruits, vegetables, algae, grasses, herbs, and other botanical ingredients for concentrated doses of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and beneficial compounds. 

Greens powders avoid the synthetic fillers, coatings, and binders found in many vitamin tablets while retaining nature's full biochemical matrix - allowing for better bioavailability and absorption compared to isolated vitamin compounds.

Going beyond vitamins 

The Best Alternative to Vitamin Capsules or Tablets UK

Vitamin capsules can contribute to balanced diets and healthy lifestyles by plugging nutrient gaps and helping overcome deficiencies. However, standalone vitamins aren't the best nutrition sources for many people, especially those trying to lose weight

The real benefit of greens powders like Braincare Smart Greens or AG1 lies in their wholefood blends – including vegetables and fruits - that provide a wealth of phytonutrients missing from multivitamin tablets:

Superfruit punch 

  • Acai Berry and Goji Berry powders contain antioxidant vitamins and plant compounds.
  •  Acerola Cherry extract - One of the richest natural sources of vitamin C.
  • Grapeseed extract - Concentrated polyphenols like resveratrol for anti-ageing effects.
  • Bilberry/Blueberry extracts - Anthocyanin antioxidants that support brain and eye health.

Brain-boosting botanicals

In addition to antioxidant firepower, vybey greens powder includes specialised ingredients that promote cognitive function:

  • Algal Omega-3 Powder (DHA) - A vegan source of the omega-3 DHA crucial for brain and heart health.
  • Vitamin B complex - Essential for energy production, brain function, and red blood cell formation, it contributes significantly to overall health and well-being.
  • Matcha Green Tea - Provides L-theanine and antioxidant EGCG to sharpen concentration.

Prebiotic fibre complex

While most green powders lack fibre, Braincare Smart Greens has a prebiotic blend featuring:

  •  Flaxseed and chicory root - Great sources of soluble fibre to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
  •  Mushroom extracts like Reishi - Provide immunity-boosting beta-glucans.
  • Turmeric and ginger roots - Powerful anti-inflammatory botanicals.

Vegan probiotic support

To further support healthy digestion, vybey contains the proven probiotic strain Bacillus coagulans to help reduce gas and bloating.

Braincare Smart Greens is a true multi-dimensional nutritional supplement with an array of antioxidants, botanicals, fibre, and probiotics from natural whole food sources.

Vitamin tablets lack lots of stuff

The Best Alternative to Vitamin Capsules or Tablets | UK

The main problem with vitamin tablets compared to a high-quality greens powder like Braincare Smart Greens is their limited nutritional scope. 

Vitamin tablets typically only provide isolated and mineral compounds while missing out on the full spectrum of beneficial nutrients in whole foods:

Synthetic nutrients

Most vitamin tablets use synthetically produced vitamin compounds rather than deriving them from whole food sources. While not necessarily dangerous, these isolated nutrients may not be absorbed and utilised by the body as efficiently as their natural counterparts.

Lack of enzymes and co-factors

Whole foods provide vitamins and minerals as part of a complex matrix that includes enzymes, proteins, polyphenols, and other supporting compounds that enhance absorption and utilisation. Vitamin tablets lack these crucial co-factors.

No antioxidants

While vitamins C and E have antioxidant properties, most basic multivitamin tablets do not provide concentrated doses of antioxidants from plant sources like berries, herbs, spices, and botanicals that greens powders offer.

No prebiotic fibre

Vitamin tablets essentially lack the prebiotic fibre that greens powders provide through ingredients like flaxseed, chicory root, and vegetable powders, with this dietary fibre helping feed the beneficial gut bacteria.

Limited Phytonutrients

Whole plant foods are rich sources of brain-loving phytochemicals like carotenoids, flavonoids, and other antioxidant compounds. These beneficial plant nutrients are mainly absent from essential vitamin/mineral supplements.

The benefits of smart greens

Super greens powders like Braincare Smart Greens offer a convenient way to pack incredible nutrition into your day. Unlike having to choke down large capsules, the fine powder can be easily mixed into your favourite juice, smoothie, or even coffee for pleasant-tasting nutrition on the go—no more excuses about not having time to eat healthy.

The diversity of whole food ingredients provides a wealth of plant proteins, fibre, antioxidants, probiotics, and beneficial phytonutrients that essential vitamin tablets cannot match to support overall health and vitality.

Antioxidant-rich superfruit and botanical extracts help combat oxidative stress and cellular damage, while the prebiotic fibres and probiotic cultures promote a healthy gut microbiome for improved digestion and nutrient absorption. 

Unique ingredients like omega-3 DHA, vitamin B complex, and matcha provide targeted benefits for brain health, focus, and cognitive performance.

It's entirely safe to consume Braincare Smart Greens daily. Only one 12g serving is needed to hit over 100% of your daily NRV. 

You can drink smart greens powder or mix it into vybey Complete Meal Powder for a super-nutritious meal replacement

Summing up 

The Best Alternative to Vitamin Capsules or Tablets | UK

Vitamin tablets and capsules can be difficult to swallow, and the herbal flavour isn't everyone's idea of fun. Gummies are one solution, but they lack the nutrient density of capsules and are way more expensive. 

Super greens powders like vybey Braincare Smart Greens offer several advantages to all these options:

  • Nutrition from whole food sources. 
  • Natural fibre and carbohydrates.
  • Significantly higher doses of vitamins and minerals per serving. 
  • Pre and probiotics. 
  • Exciting ingredients like spirulina, chlorella, and Reishi mushroom – you won't find these in vitamin capsules. 

Another exciting product to try is vybey Braincare Smart Focus, a nootropic coffee drink with lion's mane, cordyceps, and citicoline.