Lexunder Inc., doing business as Food To Live of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling its Food to Live brand green powder products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. FDA posted the company announcement on August 7, 2026.
The recall came about the way too many of them do — not because the company found the problem, but because the government did. FDA notified Lexunder that a sample of Food To Live Organic Supergreens Mix, 8-ounce package, lot SO-77820, collected at retail, tested positive for Salmonella. The company says the source of the problem has not been determined and that it has suspended production and distribution while the investigation continues.
Read that again. The product FDA actually pulled off a store shelf and tested positive — Organic Supergreens Mix — does not appear anywhere on the recalled-product table the company published. Wheatgrass, spirulina, algae mix, SuperGrass and organic wheatgrass are listed. Supergreens Mix is not. Either it is covered by the sweeping lot range the announcement recites and the table is incomplete, or the company is recalling everything around the positive sample while leaving the positive sample itself on people’s kitchen counters. Neither answer is comforting, and the announcement does not resolve it.
The lot language has its own problem. The announcement says affected lots include SO-72558 through SO-79374 — a run of nearly seven thousand lot numbers — “or codes: VFD/ORG/MORP/B/25, C25051312, OSP251001,” and then adds that no other products or lot codes are affected. But the product table lists narrow, specific lot codes that fall well inside that range and omit most of it. A consumer holding a pouch with a lot number in the seven-thousand-lot span but not on the table has no way to know whether their product is recalled. Neither does a retailer. Neither does a manufacturer that bought the bulk cases.
Here is what the company did list:
| Product | Package sizes | UPC and lot codes |
| Food to Live Wheatgrass Powder | 1 lb | UPC 840374824464; lot SO-77840 |
| Food to Live Organic Spirulina Powder | 2 oz, 4 oz, 8 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, 4 lb, 55 lb | UPC 4 oz 810013770322; 8 oz 810013770339; 1 lb 810013770346; 2 lb 810013770353; 4 lb 810013770360. The 2 oz sample and the 55 lb bulk cases carry no UPC. Lots SO-77687 through SO-78803, or OSP251001 (55 lb) |
| Food to Live Organic Algae Powder Mix | 4 oz, 8 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, 4 lb | UPC 4 oz 810097467170; 8 oz 810097466203; 1 lb 810097466210; 2 lb 810097466227; 4 lb 810097466234. Lots SO-77713, SO-77752, SO-77754, SO-77802, SO-77993, SO-78003, SO-78055, SO-78110, SO-78111, SO-78160, SO-78185, SO-78223, SO-78375, SO-78395, SO-78472, SO-78502, SO-78517, SO-78788 |
| Food to Live Organic SuperGrass Powder | 6 oz, 12 oz, 1 lb, 4 lb | UPC 6 oz 810097461543; 12 oz 810097461550; 1 lb 810097461567; 4 lb 810097461581. Lots SO-77541, SO-77704, SO-77839, SO-78003, SO-78160, SO-78245, SO-78252 |
| Food to Live Organic Wheatgrass Powder | 4 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, 8 lb | UPC 4 oz 810013771664; 1 lb 810013771688; 2 lb 810013771695; 8 lb 810013771718. Lots SO-77568, SO-77670, SO-77709, SO-77802, SO-77840, SO-77951, SO-78003, SO-78067, SO-78110, SO-78133, SO-78218, SO-78269 |
The lot code and best-before date are printed on the back of the package, below the Nutrition Facts panel and next to the barcode. FDA has posted product photos showing where to look.
The products went nationwide, sold online to consumers and to businesses through foodtolive.com, foodinbulk.com and other online marketplaces, in resealable stand-up pouches and in bulk cases weighing 33, 44 and 55 pounds. Fifty-five-pound cases of spirulina do not go home in a shopping bag. They go to somebody else’s plant, to be blended into somebody else’s smoothie mix, protein blend or greens powder under a different label. The announcement says nothing about who bought those cases or whether downstream products are being recalled. That is where the real exposure sits, and that is the question FDA ought to be asking Lexunder this week.
Green powders are the worst possible place for Salmonella to hide. They are ready-to-eat and they are dry. Nobody cooks a scoop of spirulina — it goes straight into a cold smoothie or a glass of water. There is no kill step between the pouch and the mouth. Salmonella survives for months in low-moisture foods, and the powder outbreaks we have seen over the years, from spices to flour to protein blends, have run long and quiet precisely because the vehicle sits in a cupboard for a year while people take a little at a time.
No illnesses have been reported so far. That is worth saying plainly, and it is worth being careful about. In a nationally distributed, long-shelf-life powder taken by the scoop, “no illnesses reported” more often means nobody has connected the dots yet. Salmonella cases are only counted when a sick person sees a doctor, gives a stool sample, gets a culture, and the isolate is sequenced and matched in PulseNet. Most people who get salmonellosis never do any of that. CDC’s own math is that for every confirmed Salmonella infection there are roughly 29 more that never make it into a count.
If you have any of these products, do not eat them. Throw them out or return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Lexunder is taking consumer questions at (718) 717-1029, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern, and at recall@foodtolive.com.
Salmonella brings fever, stomach cramps and diarrhea that can be bloody, usually six hours to six days after exposure, and usually running four days to a week. In young children, older adults and anyone with a weakened immune system it goes further — into the bloodstream, into bones and joints, into the lining of the heart. A small share of patients develop reactive arthritis that can last for years. If you have been eating a green powder daily and you have been sick, save the pouch, save the lot code, and see a doctor and ask for a stool culture. That pouch and that culture are the only two things that will ever tie your illness to this recall.
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