Comments on: Freeze-Dried Acai ORAC Scores are Misleading http://www.juicescam.com/freeze-dried-acai-orac-scores-are-misleading/ Is MonaVie a Scam? Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vogel http://www.juicescam.com/freeze-dried-acai-orac-scores-are-misleading/comment-page-1/#comment-15700 Vogel Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.juicescam.com/?p=114#comment-15700 Exactly! The alleged high ORAC score of acai is the cornerstone of Monavie's marketing (and indeed the reason for much of the hype about acai in general) and yet the notion, as far as I can tell, is based solely on the flawed work by Monavie co-conspirator/partner-in-crime Alexander Schauss who fudged his data by using dehydrated acai for comparisons. Schauss never published any direct comparison of the ORAC scores of different fruits. He merely threw out this unsupported statement about freeze-dried acai having a higher ORAC score than any other fruit, and the basis for his claim went unnoticed and uncontested. Can anyone out there produce a single study, other than that POS study by Schauss, which suggests acai has higher antioxidant activity than any other fruit? I think it's high time to abandon the notion that acai has uniquely high antioxidant activity. Exactly! The alleged high ORAC score of acai is the cornerstone of Monavie’s marketing (and indeed the reason for much of the hype about acai in general) and yet the notion, as far as I can tell, is based solely on the flawed work by Monavie co-conspirator/partner-in-crime Alexander Schauss who fudged his data by using dehydrated acai for comparisons. Schauss never published any direct comparison of the ORAC scores of different fruits. He merely threw out this unsupported statement about freeze-dried acai having a higher ORAC score than any other fruit, and the basis for his claim went unnoticed and uncontested.

Can anyone out there produce a single study, other than that POS study by Schauss, which suggests acai has higher antioxidant activity than any other fruit?

I think it’s high time to abandon the notion that acai has uniquely high antioxidant activity.

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