There are so many varieties of hoodia and it is only the hoodia gordonii plant that has tested well for suppressing the appetite satisfactorily. So it is necessary to do a bit of spadework before you blindly go out and pick up some hoodia diet pills or hoodia capsules or hoodia powder. Just a bit of hoodia research and reading up on hoodia reviews will give you an insight on the hoodia that you should buy.
The problem with hoodia is that it is not FDA approved because it features as a supplement and not as a prescription drug. So it is up to you to be savvy and make sure that what you are buying is hopefully the real thing. For one thing, you have to ensure that it is hoodia gordonii and not any of the other varieties of hoodia because that might not be of any use to you at all. The real hoodia is certified and approved before it leaves South Africa but there are instances where there have been fake hoodia certificated that have surfaced so it is really hard to tell, Besides looking at and checking the label carefully, you need to also ask around and look at what is written in about hoodia online, Don’t get taken in by manufacturer’s claims – a hoodia forum will probably yield a lot more results when you are on the lookout for genuine hoodia gordonii.
If you were to go by the claims of the many hoodia manufacturers, all they talk about is how their hoodia is the right one and is infinitely better than everyone else’s. Unfortunately not one of them will have certified clinical trials to prove that theirs is a superior product. When Phytopharm does enter the market with its hoodia which it has been researching for the past few years, one hopes that there will be a leveling of the market with more testing and more hoodia trials to prove how effective and genuine it is. If it is a prescription drug, it will of course have to go through the FDA approval process while all the others will be listed as supplements. This might mean that the launch in the USA might be delayed or that they will have to come in as a supplement too, One has to wait and see what direction it will take, but what it will do to the market is make people aware that the others have to match up to the real and genuine hoodia gordionii concentrate that Phytopharm has access to and has patented.
When the amount of hoodia gordonii in hoodia tea or hoodia capsules is a very small quantity, there is not much chance of it working the way it should, Some brands have a mix of hoodia with other herbs, some do not contain any hoodia gordonii at all! You could as a consumer have it chemically analyzed at special laboratories but the tests are very expensive so most people do not go into the trouble and expense of doing so, What hoodia supplements need is the presence of the ingredient P57 which is the extract of the genuine hoodia gordonii plant.