Hoodia Scams
We all know that hoodia is also touted by scammers sometimes. Here's an article I found on finding the non scammy hoodia or Hoodithin. Take a look.
Fake Hoodia Scams Abound – Make Sure You’re Buying The Real Deal
by: Jennifer Wilson
Most Hoodia products being sold on the net today are nothing more than capsules filled with unidentifiable plant material and sawdust. Crooks and ripoff artists are exploiting the hoodia weight loss craze in America and scamming people into paying 40 bucks a bottle for fake hoodia.
Pure South African Hoodia Gordonii is rare, expensive and rapidly becoming as exclusive of a commodity as diamonds. There is only one place in the world where authentic Hoodia Gordonii is grown for commercial export and that is the Western Cape of South Africa. There are only 5 major farmers on the African continent authorized to grow Hoodia Gordononii and of those, only one has authorization to sell the pure powder directly to the US market.
Real Hoodia costs around 300 US Dollars per kilo and is available only to companies licensed by the FDA and USDA to import terrestrial plants. At this price, pure Hoodia Gordonii is one of the most expensive herbs on the market and many hopeful Hoodia manufactures cannot or will not pay the high prices involved with using authentic Hoodia Gordonii.
The scarcity and expense of pure Hoodia Gordonii is causing a worldwide scam of fake Hoodia products being sold. Many of these Hoodia imposters claim to have the real thing but lab testing shows they are actually offering a common cactus called Opuntia or Chinesse Extract. And what is even worse is some fake hoodia products contained ground plant material of ‘unknown origins’, starch, maltodextrin, rice powders, and sawdust! So its no wonder that one third of all hopeful Hoodia consumers have had bad results, they are buying bogus products sold to them by rip off artists that contain absolutely no genuine Hoodia Gordonii!
Fake Hoodia Scams Abound – Make Sure You’re Buying The Real Deal
by: Jennifer Wilson
Most Hoodia products being sold on the net today are nothing more than capsules filled with unidentifiable plant material and sawdust. Crooks and ripoff artists are exploiting the hoodia weight loss craze in America and scamming people into paying 40 bucks a bottle for fake hoodia.
Pure South African Hoodia Gordonii is rare, expensive and rapidly becoming as exclusive of a commodity as diamonds. There is only one place in the world where authentic Hoodia Gordonii is grown for commercial export and that is the Western Cape of South Africa. There are only 5 major farmers on the African continent authorized to grow Hoodia Gordononii and of those, only one has authorization to sell the pure powder directly to the US market.
Real Hoodia costs around 300 US Dollars per kilo and is available only to companies licensed by the FDA and USDA to import terrestrial plants. At this price, pure Hoodia Gordonii is one of the most expensive herbs on the market and many hopeful Hoodia manufactures cannot or will not pay the high prices involved with using authentic Hoodia Gordonii.
The scarcity and expense of pure Hoodia Gordonii is causing a worldwide scam of fake Hoodia products being sold. Many of these Hoodia imposters claim to have the real thing but lab testing shows they are actually offering a common cactus called Opuntia or Chinesse Extract. And what is even worse is some fake hoodia products contained ground plant material of ‘unknown origins’, starch, maltodextrin, rice powders, and sawdust! So its no wonder that one third of all hopeful Hoodia consumers have had bad results, they are buying bogus products sold to them by rip off artists that contain absolutely no genuine Hoodia Gordonii!
