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now I have a question

would you buy this product if I added

maltodextrin to it chances are you

probably wouldn’t okay I’m going to

teach you a scientific

simple quick test you can apply

to any food or supplement to determine

if there is hidden starches okay like

maltodextrin by simply adding a little

iodine

check this out all right I’m going to

show an experiment

this test is to determine if there are

carbohydrates in your supplements or

even your food okay and primarily I’m

going to focus on maltodextrin because

that’s a hidden

carb which is really a sugar

in a lot of supplements especially in

flavors now it works like this all you

need is some iodine okay if you combine

iodine with a starch it turns the color

blue now if we take just normal water

okay I’m just going to take water

we just take a drop or two

of iodine in just regular water tap

water

okay

you can see it doesn’t turn blue

stays kind of golden yellow okay

but if we take

some iodine on some wonderful bread you

can see

it will turn it blue okay that’s the

chemical reaction

that occurs which I’m not going to get

into why but it just does that now if we

take pure maltodextrin for example

and put it in some water right here

okay mix it up

put a couple drops of

iodine in it

you can see

the color

blue or purple

okay that’s pure maltodextrin

now let’s take this other electrolyte

powder which is a competitor’s brand

which has a very similar formula to mine

like a copycat formula

they state that this is without sugar or

maltodextrin okay cool

okay so let’s add a scoop of that and a

couple drops of iodine

let’s see if it has maltodextrin in

there

whoa

turns

purple blue

apparently it does

all right now let’s take my electrolyte

powder let’s see if it has any

maltodextrin in there or or carbs

starches I mean

okay

mix it here let’s put a couple drops of

iodine in there

hmm

no purple no mocha dextrin

in fact let’s put some even more iodine

in there

see if it eventually turns it purple

and the answer is no it stays yellow

gold

and you can try this with

anything okay so you just need some

iodine and you can add it to the the

food or put in some liquid if there’s a

powder and you can detect hidden

maltodextrin and other starches in your

supplements and food is I went ahead and

did the iodine tests on every single one

of my products and I also learned

something new about this iodine test or

starch test and that is this iodine will

also react against chlorophyll and so if

a product has chlorophyll like a

wheatgrass juice powder or cruciferous

or a leafy green because of the pigment

chlorophyll in interacting with iodine

it will turn the substance a little bit

Brown not purple but Brown we also

learned that if a product has inulin

okay it can also alter the color so I

just wanted to bring that up because

it’s not just maltodextrin or other

starches that can turn things different

color all right so now that you know how

to determine if there are hidden

starches in your your products that you

buy let’s talk a little bit more about

these hidden starches and the main

starch that is put in so many of these

products is maltodextrin it’s a nearly 4

billion dollar industry where are they

putting all this maltodextrin in well

they use it as a bulking agent a

thickening agent a carrier for various

things like

flavorings they use it to add certain

texture they use it to increase shelf

life they promote it as being

plant-based and something that’s very

very inexpensive one metric ton of this

stuff is like only

520 dollars so if a manufacturing

company wants to use it to add something

as a filler maybe add some texture

they’re only spending pennies okay so

the profit can go very very high there’s

some other sneaky added benefits to a

company that you should know about

number one maltodextrin can be

classified on the label

as a carbohydrate but not as a sugar

despite behaving like a sugar I mean on

the glycemic index

you have table sugar

65.

glucose 100.

maltodextrin is between 105 and 185 I

mean when that stuff hits your

bloodstream you are majorly spiking your

blood sugars and majorly increasing

insulin and what’s Wild is there’s a

loophole that allows you to classify it

as a carbohydrate and not as a sugar in

fact and also when maltodextrin is 0.5

grams per serving size they don’t have

to list maltodextrin on the label and

it’s usually made from corn but it’s

also made from wheat rice potato but

many of the supplements that you are

probably taking right now have it in

there as a hidden ingredient for various

reasons one as a kind of a carrier or a

conversion of liquid flavoring to

powdered flavoring in fact it was very

very difficult for me to find a

flavoring company that did not use

maltodextrin and unfortunately many of

these supplement companies out there are

developed and formulated by marketers

who don’t really care about the quality

but you have flavorings you have

supplements you have energy gels

uh that are used for long distance

Runners that actually even have in the

label like sugar-free but it’s just

filled with

hidden sugars as carbohydrates they’re

even going after the baby formulas yeah

baby formula loaded with maltodextrin

and definitely uh the sport products uh

in muscle building powders

energy drinks Etc but unfortunately a

lot of people don’t know about this it’s

that little dirty secret that if people

found out they wouldn’t buy a product

that has this very very high glycemic

index sugar in it if you’re going to

exercise right and you’re going to take

a sports drink or sports gel

would it help have that be candy or

sugar does that improve your performance

really no it’s going to spike your blood

sugars and it’s going to come down and

you’re going to get tired not to mention

so many of the keto products right

they’re supposed to be keto friendly

they’re not very keto friendly and this

could definitely be one reason uh why

people might try keto with some of these

products

unknowingly not able to get into keto

because of the amount of hidden

maltodextrin and then maybe say well

keto didn’t work let me go on to the

next diet so I just wanted to create

this video to teach you a tool that you

can use using simple iodine and since

we’re on the topic of maltodextrin if

you haven’t seen this video you

definitely need to check it out I put it

up right here