Answers To More Out Of Life

The fibre content of goji berries per 100g is approximately 8g. So per 10g serve, the fibre content is a little less than 1gram.

Spirulina is a natural food supplement derived from blue-green algae. The spirulina powder is 100% pure without any additives to preserve it or help it to dissolve. Because spirulina is totally natural is will not always completely dissolve when added to liquids and sometimes it may clump. If this is a problem for you, here are some options you can try:

-add a small amount of warm water to the spirulina powder, mix to form a paste. Then add more liquid to your paste and stir.

-Try blending spirulina in the blender with ice, juice and fruit

-Use a shaker to mix the spirulina into liquid. Shake vigorously.

If you do find it challenging to take the spirulina in powdered form why not try our spirulina tablets?

Fairly common is the question of where a product or raw material comes from. It’s as if we are going to judge the ‘value’ of this by the country it originates from.

The reality is, that the world has changed, and the attitudes we may have on whether a country produces worthy food, is most likely to be wrong. After all if, for example, Vitamin C is made according to a quality standard, like BP (British Pharmacopea), so it really doesn’t matter which country it comes from, for on any testing they must be the same.

How did we arrive at establishing that one country is ‘more fit’ to produce a better raw material. Was that based on what we read, what our parents said or someone we know.

You know what really counts is the nutritional value. When we look at an ingredient like spirulina, we can see from analysis that some powders are generally higher in some component nutrients. Typically you see this in organically grown product.

When we think of the origin of a food, we may be thinking of the country as ‘not hygienic’, therefore its manufactured food is not made in clean premises, and that the food then is not safe. The reality is, as you know the opposite, a clean country does not necessarily mean all it’s processing facilities are hygienic. The way to assure us of food being made in a hygienic premises, is for them to have an implemented international food safety standard such as HACCP. So when we buy from a company who has HACCP, we know that this manufacturer has a food safety programme, which has been independently audited. A food safety programme ensures that any potential risks that may affect the food you eat are minimised, for example, clearly we can not have food with bacteria that could cause illness, or that had high heavy metal levels in it. For these and other deleterious factors there are controls set up to ensure you get ‘safe food’.

Now this HACCP certified company could be in any country, the States, Australia, Britain or China, so this would assure us of ‘safe food’.

Morlife products are manufactured in HACCP food safety certified premises and as a central component of this, is to source materials from approved suppliers who themselves meet similar food safety standards.

As you know, for a product to be well chosen in the market, it not only should be manufactured in a premises having a food safety registration, and preferably be organic, it should also be priced competitively.

Let’s be honest, typically organic sources and highly standardised businesses, often try and command a premium price. For Morlife to achieve recognition in the marketplace as ‘value for money’, we need to source raw material, not only of a quality standard, but be competitively priced.

Hence, we quite often must source from different countries as price moves. The health food market can be ‘volatile’, often prices are buffeted by supply and demand, and by seasonal supply. Since our aim is to be price competitive we must meet such factors to achieve the best result: quality, food safety, price competitive and highest nutritional value.

All potential hazards from the supplier through to transportation, warehousing and production and finally despatch from Phytofoods Aust Pty Ltd manufacturing site have been identified, examined and appropriate controls have been put in place to minimise the occurrence of these hazards as much as possible. In order for suppliers to be approved by Phytofoods Aust Pty Ltd, demonstrated evidence that a food safety and quality framework is in place must be provided to Phytofoods Aust Pty Ltd. In addition to this,Phytofoods Aust Pty Ltd’s quality assurance HACCP team may also conduct an audit of the supplier or utilise the expertise of an external auditor from agencies such as QAS International, Sci-Qual International or SGS International to conduct a supplier audit for Phytofoods Aust Pty Ltd in order to ensure that safety and quality specifications of the raw materials received have been addressed properly.

To bridge the gap between the majority of consumers and the functional foods range, Morlife at all times aims to source products that are at the highest quality but also an appropriate price to be able to pass on both the nutritional and price affordability benefits to consumers.