What is blueberry?
Blueberry is a small round fruit that grows on shrubs native to North America, prized for its sweet-tart flavor and deep blue-purple color. For supplement use, whole blueberries are typically freeze-dried or spray-dried and milled into a powder that concentrates the fruit's natural nutrient and pigment content.
What are the benefits of blueberry?
The deep color of blueberries comes from anthocyanins, a class of plant pigments studied for their antioxidant activity and their potential role in supporting cognitive health and healthy aging. Blueberries also contain vitamin C and dietary fiber, adding to their broader nutritional value.
As part of a greens blend, blueberry contributes a distinct fruit-derived antioxidant profile that complements the chlorophyll-based antioxidants found in the leafy green ingredients.
How much blueberry is in a greens powder?
Blueberry sits within the 2.6 g superfood, antioxidant and mushroom blend, and like other ingredients in that blend its exact gram weight is not separated out on the supplement facts panel.
Who should be careful with blueberry?
Blueberries are a generally well-tolerated fruit, but people with a known allergy to blueberries or related berries should check the ingredient list of any greens powder carefully before use.
Because dried blueberry powder is more concentrated than fresh fruit, people monitoring total sugar or carbohydrate intake closely, such as those managing diabetes, may want to account for the small amount of natural fruit sugar it contributes.
Blueberry questions, answered
- What makes blueberries antioxidant-rich?
- Their deep blue-purple color comes from anthocyanins, plant pigments studied for antioxidant activity that helps neutralize reactive molecules in the body.
- Is dried blueberry powder as nutritious as fresh blueberries?
- Freeze-dried blueberry powder retains much of the anthocyanin and vitamin content of fresh berries, since freeze-drying uses low temperatures that limit nutrient loss.
- Does blueberry powder contain sugar?
- It contains the natural fruit sugars found in blueberries themselves, concentrated somewhat through the drying process, though in small amounts within a blended serving.
Ingredients it works with
Blueberry is one of 56 in a single scoop.
Daily Greens prints every blend weight on the label — part of the 2.6 g superfood, antioxidant and mushroom blend.
This page is general information, not medical advice. Statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Speak to your clinician before starting a new supplement, especially if you are pregnant, nursing or taking medication.