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The growing struggle to fight obesity has driven the rich and famous to hoodia, which in turn gave rise to a southern Arizona growing facility - Arizona Hoodia - owned by Frank Fletcher. Fletcher's hybrid Hoodia Gardonii Cactus has been growing in the desert of southeastern Arizona for eight years.
With thousands of mature plants already in his acreage, Fletcher plans to plant even more this spring. According to Fletcher, it is a long, slow process to germinate from seed to harvest - more than three years. Unlike with other vegetation, harvesting does not kill the plants. The plants sport several cucumber-like arms, of which Fletcher removes about half. The arms soon grow back, and the next harvest can often occur within four months.
Fletcher’s company sends the harvest out for processing. After it is cleaned, dried and powered, the resulting substance is put into 500-mg gel caps. According to Fletcher, those taking the gel caps have found they greatly reduce hunger and make weight loss easy.
Along with the available pill formula, plans are to develop and make product available in frozen and coffee lines. Hot water in coffee has been determined to speed product delivery into the body, and frozen product can be used in sandwiches and salads.
Natives of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa have for centuries consumed it to ward off hunger.
Source: newsroom.eworldwire.com |
