Earth Fruits based on the info on their website is producing freeze-dried acai powder that is organic – this company is owned by MV.

But being organic again does not mean is better than freeze-dried, especially as spray-drying (if used in organic process) loses most of nutrients that acai has.

U.S. consumer and environmental groups urged Campbell Soup Co. to stop using gene-spliced ingredients in its soups, breads, juices, and other products. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Centre for Food Safety, and four other groups said they aimed to pressure companies to stop using bioengineered food. Campbells, which licensed the first genetically modified food — the FlavrSavr tomato — engineered for longer shelf life, is the first company targeted by the coalition. In Europe, Campbell sells little, if any, bioengineered food. Source: Reuters, July 20, 2000

Matthew says “Remember its not just acai, just one third of every bottle”

So should we expect a new tagline to be released this summer….

monavie! Now with 33% acai.

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I am in fact a distributer, if you wish to see the documentation ask MonaVie HQ for it. I am more then positive they will share all information with you. Monavie spent millions and millions of dollars to prepare the juice so that the MonaVie promise would not be compromised. How could it be a scam? We are number one in food and beverage. You pay for your juice you get your juice it does wonderful things for your body, you don’t think MonaVie gives energy? Chug back half a bottle then post that again. Remember its not just acai, just one third of every bottle. Also talk abit about pulse and the greatness it does for your heart. The Inc. 500 magazine seems to think we are good stuff.

As far as the Wolfberry goes, my point was simply that if one wanted to save money on organic certification, they could add one ingredient that can’t be certified organic and then go cheap on the other ingredients. They could be GMOs for all we know. No one would ever know the difference. When something is certified organic, we know more about how all the ingredients were grown.

Lastly, here’s some certified-organic dried Wolfberry from China. It seems it is quite possible.

Wolfberry (goji) to me is the second best ingredient of MV – it is also considered as one of the superfruits so it somehow does not make sense what MonaVie Scam said about adding goji to MV just to avoid organic certification. Chinese often use organochlorine pesticides in commercial goji cultivation to mitigate destruction of berries by insects (based on Wikipedia) – so testing for pesticides is necessary. Lychee is also from China – Oh, I am sorry, your V8 or Welch juice does not have it. Too bad as goji has been known for its health benefits for centuries.

Why should organic certification for acai be something unusual? Most of acai is grown in amazon rain forest – i.e. there are no pesticides being used there. So what is this discussion really for? To me it seems that providers of acai powder might benefit from having it so that public know it is really acai and not something else.

Organic certification does not guarantee that majority of nutrients from acai are being preserved. Freeze-drying process does guarantee it – this is why MV went ahead and got its’ patents for. Companies that use warm air spray drying could have their acai also certified organic but lacking most of nutrients.

On low-quality of acai – what evidence do you have that MV actually used whatever you digged out in their products? You cannot prove it – your shipment receipts do not mean anything – from what I know it is MonaVie that sells low-grade acai that does not meet their high standards to its competitors. Maybe it went to V8 or other competitor.

You say that MonaVie is selling low quality acai to competitors? Why would they want to be a distributor for competitors? If true (and I don’t think it is, that’s really poor business on their part.

Tom, you say that you learned something different… MonaVie has high quality acai and is selling low quality acai to competitors. Where is your source? How did you learn this? You bring up Vogel’s reputation, but you now find yourself having to provide evidence to solidify your own reputation.

Tom, you say that Vogel should look at the U.S. agencies for double standards. You make claims that Vogel eats “genetically modified products”, with “pesticides and herbicides.” This article is about being certified organic. From Wikipedia this means:

“avoidance of most synthetic chemical inputs (e.g. fertilizer, pesticides, antibiotics, food additives, etc), genetically modified organisms, irradiation, and the use of sewage sludge…”

So eating “certified organic” means all these things that Tom brings up are irrelevant. In fact it speaks to the relevancy of this article that MonaVie is not certified organic. Which means that MonaVie is legally allowed to use genetically modified products, pesticides, and herbicides without telling people. This is Tom’s “reason not to believe” and “not to be satisfied with [MonaVie's] products.” Many people are satisfied with Monsanto’s products (despite your “libelous” words) as well, so of course that makes them extremely safe, right?

All the things that Tom mentions about wolfberry are true… and amazingly enough… mentioned in the original article. So that isn’t providing new information. It’s very possible that MonaVie is adding Wolfberry so that they can skirt the organic certification.

If one was to draw up a business plan for profitability, it would be to include an ingredient like wolfberry and use it as a scap-goat to avoid ordering organic certification. That way you can buy the cheapest of ingredients elsewhere.