How Super Greens delivers 300 mg of PhytoFactor in a stick pack

4Life Super Greens is a plant-based greens beverage produced by 4Life Research USA, LLC and sold in single-serve stick packs. It combines whole-food nutrition drawn from seventeen greens, grains, and roots with 300 mg of PhytoFactor™, the plant-based transfer factor developed by 4Life and sourced from the seeds of Brassica napus. 4Life describes it as the only plant-based greens beverage in the world powered by PhytoFactor — a claim that rests not on the greens, which are widely available, but on the peptide, which is not.*

That single sentence contains the whole design problem. A greens powder is a nutrition product. A transfer factor is an immune-education ingredient. Putting the two in the same sachet meant solving for both — and the format 4Life chose says as much about the product as the ingredient list does.

Why a stick pack, and not a tub

Most greens powders arrive in a tub with a scoop. It is the cheapest format to manufacture and the most forgiving to fill. It is also the least precise. Powdered blends stratify in transit: denser particles migrate downward, lighter ones rise, and a scoop taken from the top of a fresh tub is not compositionally identical to a scoop taken from the bottom six weeks later. For a general nutrition blend, that variance is tolerable. For a formula whose headline ingredient is a measured 300 mg peptide dose, it is not.

A sealed single-serve sachet removes the question. Each stick pack is filled once, to spec, and stays sealed until it is opened. The 300 mg of PhytoFactor in the first stick pack is the 300 mg in the fifteenth. There is no scoop to level, no tub to shake, and no slow oxidation of the remaining two-thirds of the powder every time the lid comes off.

The second reason is behavioral, and 4Life is candid about it: the product only works if people actually drink it. A tub lives on one kitchen counter. A stick pack lives in a bag, a glovebox, a desk drawer, a suitcase. Adherence is the quiet variable in every daily supplement, and format is the cheapest lever anyone has ever found for moving it.

What 300 mg of PhytoFactor actually means

PhytoFactor is 4Life's plant-based source of transfer factor — immune-supporting proteins and peptides extracted from Brassica napus seeds, sourced from Canada. If you want the full account of what a transfer factor is and how the plant-based version came to exist, we have written both: a five-minute primer on transfer factors and the story of how 4Life found one in a field crop.

What matters here is the number, and where it sits relative to the rest of the family. PhytoFactor now appears in three 4Life products, and the three are not interchangeable:

The distinction worth holding onto: Transfer Factor Max is the only one of the three that carries both halves of the transfer factor story. Its 900 mg of 4Life Transfer Factor combines the animal-based Tri-Factor Blend — peptides from cow colostrum and chicken egg yolk — with the plant-based PhytoFactor. Super Greens carries the plant half only. That is a feature if you are vegan and a limitation if you were hoping to replace Max with a beverage. It is not the same product wearing a different package.*

Greens, grains, roots: the seventeen

4Life organizes the superfood side of Super Greens into three tiers. The grouping is not decorative — it maps roughly onto three different parts of a plant and three different nutritional arguments.

A few of these deserve a second look. Astragalus root is the one ingredient Super Greens shares with 4Life Immune Tea — an adaptogen used in Asian herbal practice for well over a thousand years, and one of the few botanicals on the list with an immune-adjacent reputation rather than a purely nutritional one.* Chlorella and spirulina are algae, not plants, and they are on the list for protein and pigment density. Cocoa seeds are filed under grains, which is botanically loose but functionally sensible — they are there for phytochemicals and for the fact that cocoa makes green things taste like something a person will drink again tomorrow.

The origins column is the quietly interesting one. 4Life publishes a country or region alongside most Super Greens ingredients, and read together it is a map: parsley from Italy, quinoa from Peru, astragalus from Mongolia, cocoa from the Upper Amazon basin, PhytoFactor from Canada. These are the origins 4Life associates with each ingredient rather than a live sourcing manifest, but the disclosure itself is more than most greens brands publish.

The other half: inulin and the prebiotic

Super Greens also contains inulin fiber and a prebiotic, and 4Life lists digestive health as one of the product's primary supports — alongside core nutrition and cellular health, with immune system support listed as secondary.* That ordering surprises people who assume anything from 4Life leads with immunity. It is worth taking at face value.

Inulin is a soluble fiber that human digestive enzymes cannot break down. It passes into the colon intact, where resident bacteria ferment it. In other words it does not feed you; it feeds them. 4Life includes it to support gut and digestive health, regularity, and a healthy gut microbiome.*

4Life also reports that in pre-launch, in-house testing, Super Greens significantly reduced bloating severity by nearly 50% in as little as two weeks.^ That is a real finding and 4Life labels it plainly — it comes from in-house testing conducted to validate benefits through customer experience, not from a peer-reviewed clinical trial. We repeat it here with the same label attached. It is a reason to be interested; it is not a reason to treat the number as clinical evidence, and individual results vary.*

What Super Greens is not

This is the section most product pages skip, so we will be direct about it.

• It is not Transfer Factor Max in a drink. No animal-based Tri-Factor Blend. No Super-Mushroom Blend. No added zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D, or IP-6. Those are Max's ingredients, and they are why Max is the broad-spectrum immune formula and Super Greens is not.*
• It is not a meal replacement. Seventeen superfoods in a stick pack is a supplement to a diet, not a diet.
• It is not a treatment for anything. Super Greens is a dietary supplement. Nothing here describes diagnosing, treating, curing, or preventing disease, and the bloating finding is a comfort measure reported in in-house testing — not a medical outcome.*
• The clinical studies behind Max were run on Max. Yu (2024), Jensen (2026), and Gardner (2026) examined the Transfer Factor Max formula. They are not Super Greens studies, and nothing in them transfers to a greens beverage by association.*

Stated plainly, Super Greens earns its place on a shelf next to Max, not in front of it. The honest pitch is the narrow one: it is the only greens beverage that also carries plant-based transfer factor, it is vegan where transfer factor has historically not been, and it is built to be finished.*

How to use it

Fifteen stick packs at one per day is roughly a two-week supply, which is also the window in which 4Life's in-house bloating observation was made.^ Most people take it in the morning, for the same reason most people take greens in the morning — it is the meal that is easiest to attach a habit to. There is no timing requirement in the directions. Water is the specified liquid; the flavor was built for it.

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. 4Life Super Greens and Transfer Factor Max are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. ^As seen in pre-launch, in-house testing to validate benefits of Super Greens through customer experience. Individual results vary. Consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new supplement program.