(CBS) Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working very well.
Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it’ll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.
In most parts of this site we give emphasis to the fact that the best hoodia gordonii comes from South Africa. Even more, some cheap hoodia products might be counterfeited with mexican or chinese hoodia or other hoodia varieties. The most frequent situation is that counterfeited hoodia does not have hoodia at all.
Is it correct to say that the only hoodia gordonii as raw material comes from South Africa? The answer is NO. But let us explain some points about it.