Archive for the ‘MonaVie & ORAC’ Category

• Freeze-Dried Acai ORAC Scores are Misleading

  Sunday, June 25th, 2017

  You may read that MonaVie uses freeze-dried acai which has extremely high ORAC score. In fact Dr. Alex Schauss has a presentation showing as much. While that is true, it’s simple why this would be case. I’ll let the unbiased Wikipedia explain: “When comparing ORAC data, care must be taken to ensure that the units […]

• MonaVie Lies about the ORAC score of MonaVie?

  Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

  Let’s make this short and sweet… MonaVie says four ounces of MonaVie Original (and Active) has an ORAC score of between 4,000 to 5,000 units (see #11). However, the AIBMR study done by Dr. Alex Schauss concludes “the total antioxidant capacity of the JB (i.e. MonaVie) measured by ORAC is 22.8 umol/mL.” Using simple math, […]