Hoosier Hill Farm All Natural Kale powder, 1 lb

EDIT, 8/8/20, now 5 stars: it also reconstitutes quickly if you put it in Smart Balace or Duke's Mayonnaise. I mixed a super heaping tablespoon with the same amount of Duke's Mayonnaise plus a heaping tablespoon of Hoosier Hill Farm cheese powder + about a teaspoon of Ragin Cajun and maybe another TBSP of blue cheese dressing so it would not be too thick to stir.Result is so tasty. I spread it on a warmed tortillas and then roll up the tortillas.But frankly it's also just good by itself, if not spread on anything. After mixing it solo w Duke's or SB, I just stick my finger in and eat off the finger.The kale taste is very strong and very fresh. It seems expensive but you've got more vitamins in one teaspoon than in a head of kale, maybe.Now, I absolutely adore it. Customer4life=======EDIT, 1/7/14: I raised the rating to 4 stars because I finally figured out how to bring about the true kale taste: mix one heaping tablespoon of TwinLab Yeast (here in Amazon), two tablestoons of Twinlab SuperYeast, one tablespoon of Hoosier Hill Blue Cheese Powder, and two-three heaping tablespoons of the Kale Powder. Mix them dry first, because the yeast is clumpy, and a granular powder like the Kale helps reduce clumping. I used a chopstick for stirring. Once evenly mixed, add water, stirring as you add it, again to reduce clumping. If you add enough to make a soup out of it, by the time you've eliminated the clumping, the Kale Powder has 'bloomed', and it really tastes like fresh kale. If you want it hot, then use hot or boiling water rather than cold. Original review, follows below.============Kale is the best veggie I've ever had. It freezes well, and while still frozen you can break it up to make a decent salad (I just did that); or, of course you can cook it. It has more nutrition than any other leafy green including spinach, keeps a good two weeks in the fridge if you put it in one of those old ice cream gallon buckets and wash it every few days. And, it tastes better. But here, it's often out of stock or expensive. I've tried growing my own, but for some reason I don't get it right.Enter, this powder. Yep, it's dried kale, into powder. I'm guessing its one pound is worth 20 lbs of fresh kale. Nutrition in the powder is somewhat less, obviously, but it's tasty (though it tastes flat, nothing like real kale) -- and will do when you can't get fresh or don't want to shop for it. However, its Nutrition Information in the Product Description, is poorly provided; largely because, the sample size on the jar, is 1/4 pound! So you have to move the decimal one left for each value given, to approximate. Move it left twice, to get the number of claimed servings' individual values: then you realize that the numbers given, just have to be wrong. A serving of kale (three to four leaves, and YES eat the stalks too).. is far richer in Vitamin A, calcium, iron and C than indicated on the label. So I'm giving the makers the benefit of the doubt and assuming MOST of that pre-dried value, is also in the dried, rather than relying on the label.The actual label on the container, is even worse, calling a half teaspoon, a 'serving' with NO anything in the nutrition listed, except 4% Vitamin A. You get that, from a teaspoon of hot sauce or chili powder. Not helpful. Who measures a half teaspoon of vegetable powder?So I docked two stars for the bad labels, and for them not telling us approximately how much FRESH kale is represented (by weight) in the pound of powder. The powder can be used in many ways, including (my favorite), mixing with whey powder to get more nutrition from it. Is a great addition to (say Progresso) lentil soup. Or, try mixing unflavored whey protein, some Twinlab Super (or regular) yeast, and enough of this powder to taste; it will be very thick (only use a little water at a time to mix, to prevent clumps in the yeast); add enough to make a full-boat 'meal' soup (i.e., use hot water), spice it as you like.. and enjoy!Would I buy this again? Not unless I have to. It's no real substitute for fresh, especially since real kale freezes so well, you can still make a salad of it while it remains frozen (actually is tastier as it thaws).

This has been a good, and versatile powder for adding to green smoothies, scrambled eggs, making an easy vegetable based broth, and sneaking into meatloaf and other foods so no one suspects you've made it a little more nutritious. Note that it can be strong and a bit bitter like its fresh counterpart so a little goes a long way. For green smoothies I've found that 1/2-1tsp is more than enough and it pairs well with matcha green tea powder and a frozen "banana bread ripe" banana to make a green tea flavored green smoothie that is just sweet enough to offset kale's bitterness. (Honey works too if you like things sweeter.) Since a little goes such a long way, there's enough uses in each container that I do feel as though it is money well spent and I would order it again. In fact, I'm thinking about giving some of their other vegetable powders a try since I've also enjoyed their mushroom powder in the past. I would purchase again.***Note about how powder compares to fresh:A little bit of helpful information regarding the nutrition label on the container: 1tsp = about 4-5 grams, note that in the image of the nutrition label they have the serving as 100g which if assuming 5g per tsp is a little over 1/2 c of powder per serving. So, if you want to know the %DV of the nutrients, or the calories per tsp serving, a good rough estimate is taking the number on the label and dividing by 20. (So, approximately 17.8 calories per tsp, 53.8% DV of vitamin A per tsp, etc.) If we're looking at macronutrients 1 tsp = approximately 1/2 c fresh kale. Reasoning: Using the ~5g per tsp there would be approximately 1g protein per tsp which would be the same as about 1/2 c of fresh kale, and 0.65g fiber per 1/2c fresh kale lines up with the approximately 0.6g fiber in a tsp of powder kale.So there you have it ladies and gents, 1tsp = about 1/2 c fresh kale when comparing nutrients. That being said, this is obviously an approximation.

it used to be a perfect product, almost sweet but still earthy taste, it was perfection! I bought it every month. And it is the only powder that mentioned specifically dark kale out of the kale powders! But recently one gave me headaches and smelled like oregano/like it had gone bad, I would give it 1 star for that one, but the other 5 or 6 I bought all tasted perfect, so I'll hold final judgement and and try again to buy one more, and hopefully have an excuse to make this a 5 star review that doesn't mention the bad one and go back to ordering it once or twice monthly, bc I want to give it a great review, That's how good it is, it is usually the best sweetest, earthiest most perfect tasting product ever!

I haven't done a side-by-side comparison between this stuff and fresh kale, but I like the flavor. The smell of the powder reminds me of dried soybean leaves, which is probably to be expected from pretty much any dried green leaf.It mixes into both soupy and goopy food very easily and has a pleasant, um...green flavor. Every time I use this stuff I feel like a carnivore getting his token veggies to feel healthy, but in truth I just get sick of the same old beans and rice day after day and this gives my food a whole new personality. And color. Definitely a whole new color.I admit one of the main reasons I always by from HHF is their awesome wide mouth square plastic jars. That by itself is motivation enough to buy this product! The jars are great for dry foods, nuts and bolts, dead batteries, weird observational 'science' (have you ever grown a mold garden?), and any instance where you find yourself nervously handling a glass jar as though it were a live grenade. They don't seal all that well without the paper gasket, though, so be careful if you decide to use one as a urinal.

Absolute Great Products..if you attempted at home to dehydrate yourself.. you would be Crazzzy and found dead in your kitchen on the floor mumbling.. why..why.. .. LOL.. Seriously though.. the amount of effort and quality and time to reproduce their product.. you cant even come close.. the convenience of having shelf stable high quality products ..you cant beat Hoosier Farms

Very good. Stronger tasting than the other product we buy but better value and much easier package to handle every day. Just add some juice to drink as is (which takes away most of the bitter taste) or add to smoothies and casseroles etc.

I love the powder. I use it as a supplement on my salads. I add to whatever I am eating if possible. It has a strong flavour (as Kale does) so some foods will not retain their flavour with too much powder. You have to sprinkle it here and there and experiment. For me I can put quite a bit on a salad and not so much on other foods. Either way it is a fabulous way to get more nutrition into me.

I use it for putting in my smoothie. Not the greatest of tastes!! But it adds dense nutrition which is my objective. My partner complains of the smell which, to me, means it is fresh and 'alive'. Great product.

I have very much enjoyed the taste of this kale powder. I mix it with some beet powder and spinach powder into some tomato juice, I sprinkle it on salads, tomatoes, a whole range of usage. VERY FRIENDLY to mix and work with. LOVE IT