While CITES certification is required to know that your Hoodia Gordonii was legally harvested and imported, it is also necessary to ensure that the CITES documentation was properly obtained and that the Hoodia that was certified remains pure when it is placed into a supplement. 

More than 100 separate complaints against companies were filed last year in relation to Hoodia Gordonii because of false claims and improperly tested product, often the result of carefully reworded labeling or sometimes just outright lies. This is why Hoodia Prime™ triple tests it’s Hoodia before it goes out to our customers.

There are supposed to be versions of Hoodia Gordonii that are grown in China or even in the United States, but it is believed by many to be a different species of Hoodia that does not provide the appetite suppression of the Hoodia Gordonii grown in South Africa. 

In fact, there are over 20 species of Hoodia that grow in South Africa alone, and only Hoodia “Gordonii” is the species of the plant that has the P57 molecule for appetite suppression.  The other versions of Hoodia do not.  So if you see a product that just states “Hoodia” on the label and not specifically “Hoodia Gordonii”, be aware you may be purchasing a worthless product for weight loss.

To make matter worse, the high demand for Hoodia has caused farmers to use Hoodia Gordonii plants which haven’t yet matured.  These immature plants contain little if any of the P57 molecule which is the portion of Hoodia that gives the fantastic appetite suppression effect.  So while cultivating young plants could technically be pure Hoodia, they could be useless for appetite suppression.

Pure Hoodia Gordonii will often cost as much as $300 per kilogram and that means that any cheap Hoodia that claims to contain very high concentrations of the supplement may be misleading,  perhaps finding ways to get around their CITES certification by falsely claiming they have somehow concentrated down your doses, or one of many popular methods of duping the public. They may not only be lying; they may have included other ingredients and fillers to dilute the overall formula, posing potential health risks and costing you additional money.

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