According to the Green Organic Supplements website, their products are “Made with Organic, Wild-Crafted, and Natuiral Ingredients.” We aren’t sure what natuiral means, but we will let you know if we find out! Green Organic Supplements pride themselves in being hand-made, with no fillers, artificial colors, preservatives, or Magnesium Stearate. They focus on purity and quality.
Website Navigation
The Green Organic Supplements website is pretty strange in the way that it is organized and how it works.
The top of the home page looks like it’s full of ads, even though they are just trying to promote their own products. As mentioned in the introduction, there are a few spelling errors. There is a good video at the top of the page that informs you about their values and quality of the product. This video would be better to be the large, main focus of the home page rather than the ad looking images.
On the left-hand side of the website, there is a shop by category menu. This is a great way to shop by what you are looking for, however, it doesn’t load most of the time. Even after fully refreshing the page several times, the menu does not load. This leaves you only being able to shop the products that show up on the home page. Once you click on a product from the home page, you can then click the shop by category menu and it will give you the options from there.
Scrolling down on the homepage, they have reviews powered by Shopper Approved. This is great to include third-party reviews on the website, however, the ones they show are not very current. They do have several more recent reviews, from this year, that they should be showing.
The product images on the entire website are not good. There are several broken images and the ones that you can see are not high quality at all.
There is an About Us section as well as a How Green Organic Supplements Was Born section. These are informative in giving you a background of the company and what they use in their products. These sections also have many spelling/grammar errors including, “Health Happen in One Click Away!” We had to read this out loud several times to really grasp how weird it sounded.
When viewing the products, there is a compare button that comes in handy. It allows you to compare multiple products side by side and look at things like the price, description, and availability. From what we can see there is no limit to how many items you can compare at a time but we wouldn’t recommend doing more than about 4. From this compare page, you also have the option to conveniently add any of them to your cart.
The website converts alright to mobile. The layout becomes rather unorganized when viewing it on a phone. It also has the same issue of not showing the categories you can shop by when you are on the home page.
The combination of the website malfunctions and the blurry or broken images could push customers away from buying off of this website.
Catalog
Green Organic Supplements has a total of 305 products (that’s kind of a lot), including some sample sizes of products. We purchased the Fruit Multivitamin and Green Power Whole-Food Multivitamin.
They sell supplements, vitamins, weight control, sexual health, women’s health, men’s health, sports and muscle, and samples.
In the vitamins category, they have 29 options (this helps narrow it down quite a bit). There are several types of whole food, natural supplements depending on what needs you have.
Because they have quite a few products to choose from, they encourage you to call them and get a free consultation if you are having a hard time knowing what to take. This can help you know what products to look for and make navigating through the options easier.
Packaging Information
The Fruit Multivitamin states that it is a dietary supplement that is non-GMO, vegan, gluten-free, and has no magnesium stearate or fillers. They have a pretty good nutrition label that shows all of the ingredients and amounts of those ingredients that are in their plant-derived capsules. They have a statement about what their vitamin offers in comparison to the majority of other vitamins. It would be more useful for them to put specifics about their product, not why other products are bad. The Green Power Whole-Food Multivitamin has a good nutrition facts label that tells the vitamins and minerals found in the product along with the %DV of each. It also lists the ingredients so that you can see what plants are included in the product. The Fruit Multivitamin does not have the same label with vitamins and minerals listed out. It instead just has the actual ingredients and amounts listed.
Some of the ingredients also have percentages or ratios. For example Strawberry Ext 10:1, Pomegranate Ext. 90%, Grapefruit Juice & Ext 4:1, Broccoli & Ext. 10:1, Cabbage & Ext 99%, and Maca and Ext. 10%. The listed ratios and percentages do not have any explanation. We are not sure if they are diluting some of the extracts and that is why they are in ratio form or what it means.
With the Fruit Multivitamin, they make quite a few claims. They probably shouldn’t be making claims like this. They state that fruit can help reduce risk of chronic diseases, reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, reduce the risk of kidney stones, decrease bone loss as you age, help form red blood cells, prevent neural tube birth defects, reduce risk of type-2 diabetes, and protect against certain cancers.
The Green Power Whole-Food Multivitamin states that it is a phytonutrient-rich green plant, algae, and cereal grasses formula which provides high concentrations of chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and plant sterols. It also states that it has organic moringa and spirulina which have the highest concentration of nutrients ever known in food, animal, or plant. If these were the highest concentration of nutrients wouldn’t more people know about them?
The actual packaging of Green Organic Supplements products looks like a typical vitamin bottle. They do feel a little cheap and don’t look professional. The labels are blurry and look like they were printed from a home printer and stuck on the bottle. We do like that they have a lift tab lid rather than a twist-off lid.
Customer Service
Green Organic Supplements has great customer service! We emailed them with quite a few questions. Because we had asked so many, Julio, the owner, invited us to personally call him. He emailed us back this request in a good time frame and wanted to make sure he could address all of our concerns personally.
They also appear to be active on Twitter and YouTube.
They have a reasonable return policy similar to a lot of stores. It is stated as, “Any item you wish to return must be received back to our warehouse within 30 days of receipt of the product. The item must be returned at the customers expense, and must be unopened and undamaged for a credit (less shipping & handling) to be issued. Please email (info@greenorganicsupplements.com) us prior to returning any merchandise (please include your order number and the item description in your email). For your protection, we advise using a shipping carrier with tracking, signature verification or any type of proof of delivery. After 30 days past the date of receipt of your order, no returns are accepted. Full credit for the returned item will be issued for unopened and undamaged merchandise within 10 business days of our receipt of the returned package. Credit will not be issued for any opened or damaged merchandise. Any and all shipping costs cannot be refunded. We recommend that you pack the item carefully and insure the package, as any items lost or damaged in shipping cannot be refunded. If you elect to use USPS for your return, the package must have Delivery Confirmation, or we cannot guarantee that your item will be credited.”
Some people could run into an issue of not being able to get credit back as the return must be unopened. This means you could not try out the product and send it back if you don’t like it.
Quality
Green Organic Supplements focuses on the quality of their products. Their products are stated to be organic, natural, and wildcrafted. Wildcrafted means that the plants in the products are foraged from a natural habitat. Their products are hand made in the United States and are shipped directly to the customer. We wonder how many customers they have if they have time to hand fill every capsule and bottle.
Green Organic Supplements state, “Our goal is to manufacture our supplements as pure as possible, so we don’t use fillers, binders, or chemical excipients. Other manufacturers, in an effort to keep costs down, dilute their products with cheap fillers and excipients, which cheats you out of the active ingredient and contaminates your product with unneeded chemicals. Purity, Quality, and Results is our #1 goal.”
From what we can see, Green Organic Supplements products are pretty natural. They don’t add things that are unnatural. The only downside we found is that they don’t always use the whole fruit or vegetable. They often use just the juice or extract from the whole food. Using just part of the whole food rather than the entire thing does not provide as many nutrients.
They do have a video explaining what goes into their product and their process of quality.
Product
We wanted to taste this product to know how natural it tasted. We opened the capsule (which some people who have a hard time swallowing capsules would have to do anyway) to get a better idea of the taste. They have a natural but strange smell. The taste seems natural but is also strange, and not very good. The Fruit Multivitamin starts as a fruity flavor, transitions into a weird taste that seems like dirt, and then it turns into a strange sweetness that lingers in your mouth.
These capsules seem like a decent size that would be fairly easy to swallow.
Price/Month
The Green Organic Supplements Fruit Multivitamin is $32.98 for a 30 day supply. The Green Power Whole-Food Multivitamin is $25.98 for a 30 day supply.
The flat rate shipping is $5.98, rush delivery is from $7.95, and standard international is from $29.24. There is a free shipping offer but it’s a little confusing. In the top Banner on each page, it says that you can get free shipping on orders over $50. However, in the shipping and policies section, it says free shipping over $48.98. These prices are pretty similar but which one is it? We added items to our cart to make the total $49.90 and it still charged us shipping. So yes, you need to spend an extra $1.02 to get the free shipping.
They do have some products on Amazon we found the Fruit Multivitamin for $32.98 with free shipping.
Experience
Mindful Kiwi and Sunflower the Kid took this product for 10 days. As they took it, they continued to live their normal lifestyle with no changes. They were surprised that they actually enjoyed these products. Mindful Kiwi noticed she didn’t get her frequent headaches and Sunflower the Kid noticed she was sleeping better.
Recommendation
This product has a pretty good quality and we felt a little better from taking it. We would recommend Green Organic Supplements to someone looking for a pretty good quality supplement. While their website and pictures aren’t very good, we liked the personalized customer service they are willing to give you.
Contributors to this review: Mindful Kiwi, Sunflower the Kid, and Cute Cactus
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