Finessa Ingredients: The Four Blends and Akkermansia Explained

Open a tub of Finessa and the label lists four blends plus one strain standing alone. The seller describes the aim as digestive support, using prebiotic fiber, live cultures and a liver blend. Our ingredients article adds some background on the panel.

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The panel as a table

A serving is a scoop, and each tub is meant to last a month.

Elsewhere the panel notes 40 mg of sodium, 10 mg of potassium, 1 mcg of selenium, 3 g of carbohydrate and 10 calories in a scoop. No Daily Value percentages are printed, so none appear here.

What each blend contains

Each blend has one total, and nothing is broken out for the items inside. Here is simply what those items are.

Polyphenol blend

Berries lead the list (strawberry juice, raspberry, blueberry, cranberry, black currant and acai), followed by pomegranate and two deeply colored roots, purple carrot and beet root.

Gut health blend

• Ginger root: a pungent kitchen root
• Cinnamon from cassia bark: a warm baking spice
• FOS (fructooligosaccharides): a prebiotic fiber
• DGL, deglycyrrhizinated licorice root extract: licorice from which the glycyrrhizin has been removed
• Cascara sagrada, as a 10:1 bark extract: a traditional bark with a reputation as a bowel stimulant

Liver health blend

• Dandelion root: a herb with a traditional place in herbal practice
• Turmeric root: the bright yellow spice
• Milk thistle: a thistle plant used as a traditional herb
• Silymarin: an extract standardized to 80%
• Artichoke extract: from the plant Cynara scolymus, with cynarin making up 5% of the extract

Probiotic blend

Nine strains share 52.5 mg. Four of them are not lactobacilli: Streptococcus thermophilus, Clostridium butyricum, Bifidobacterium lactis BLa80 and Bacillus coagulans BC99. Five are: L. rhamnosus, L. casei, L. acidophilus, plus the numbered types LA85 and LR08. At manufacture, the whole blend counts 5 billion CFU, according to the label.

Akkermansia muciniphila AH39

One named gut bacterium, listed alone at 2 mg.

What carries the powder

Resistant dextrin forms the base. Silicon dioxide, citric acid, natural flavors, stevia leaf extract and sea salt round out the other ingredients. Anyone on a restricted diet should check the full list printed on the tub.

About those blend totals

You get the whole cast and the combined weight, but not the split between members. Supplement labels commonly present blends this way.

Who will like this label

• Shoppers who like every ingredient named before they pay
• People who prefer one scoop to a row of separate products
• Adults looking for a morning step that takes seconds

Cascara sagrada sits in the gut blend, so begin as directed and keep up your water. Let your doctor weigh in first if you have a weakened immune system or a bowel condition, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you use heart drugs, water pills or blood thinners.