Hello there, this is Monica Reinegel, and you're listening to the Nutrition Diva Podcast

Welcome.

I recently got an email from Georgia.

She's a long-time listener of the Nutrition Diva Podcast, and she was writing to ask me

about an ingredient that she'd run across called Zyna-Mite.

I follow several people on social media for inspiration, she writes, and one of them is

Superman himself, Henry Cavill.

Now for the uninitiated, Cavill plays the role of Clark Kent and his alter-ego Superman

in the movie Man of Steel.

He is, as the kids say, ripped.

Recently, she continues, he discussed his supplement regimen, and one of them has an

ingredient that I never heard of before, Zyna-Mite.

What is that?

I'm not a bodybuilder like he is, she says, but do I need it?

And can I get Zyna-Mite in my regular food?

Well, you know what, Georgia, I'd never heard of Zyna-Mite either, but here's what I found

out.

Zyna-Mite is the trade name for a mango extract, but this isn't just any old mango juice.

It's extracted from the leaves of the plant through a proprietary patented process that promises

a certain concentration of a polyphenel called manjeferin.

So no, this really isn't something that you could get from your diet, unless you are

planning to chew a lot of mango leaves.

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