Mr. Jackson, as you probably know MonaVie is not medicine and it can’t help you with pain or arthritic symptoms. There have been many studies (you can see a few cited at here) that show glucosamine to being no better than placebo with arthritic symptoms.

Furthermore, it has been shown that MonaVie provides little nutrition.

When you use the “I’ll just try it” line of thinking, you are opening yourself up to the placebo effect.

There is little evidence that acai is a superfruit. The term superfruit isn’t scientific. I could say an apple is a superfruit and we’d have to agree that it is just as super as acai since there is no definition.
If you really want acai, you shouldn’t get it in juice form. When a fruit is juiced much of the fiber is stripped away in the processing. Costco has some dark chocolate-acai bites that would give you more superfruit at a likely better price if you indeed decide to go that way.

Now to my question: Has anyone in this blog tried both Monavie and Sambazon? If so, can you tell me if you had the same response from Sambazon as you did with Monavie? If so please respond. I’m no idiot, if I can spend less and get the same results I am happy to switch to Sambazon or any other product that will effect me as much as Monavie has. I don’t give a crap about numbers, this and thats and who say’s what. I just want results and if I can do it at lower cost then great, maybe I will spend the extra money on more product to give away and spread the word because yes “acai” is a SUPERFRUIT!!! in more ways then I would have ever believed.

Respectfully,

J.

http://mlmblog.net/site/2010/02/asea-scam.html

If you read the comments, you will find it almost identical to the way MonaVie is both criticized and promoted… hmmm…

Could this not be the “salt water of a thousand truths”? I was so pumped for it’s redox molecules to wash down my gullet and cure all my ailments in one swift stroke.

Here’s a good e-mail signature:
“NOT ALL MLMs ARE PYRAMID SCAMS. I agree… most are! But this is REAL!” -Whiplash, ASEA believer in the one true MLM

Compared to MonaVie, Sambazon is saintly, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t stand up to scientific analysis. What we are trying to do is cut through the BS and as Food Tech said, get real data instead of marketing propaganda.

That being said, I do drink Sambazon from time to time, and I have no real ill will towards it, so I am not sure where your belligerent attitude comes from, as no one has really said anything about the product other than to put it on the testing table.

Plus, can you eat granola with monavie? I don’t think so!!

As for your pure pulp smoothie pack, please cite the analysis which validated your claim. Also, if you wish to post ORAC scores from any of your any beverages, please do so. Again, no offense, but I need verifiable data, not marketing propaganda.

Forgive me for not believing any of the nonsense the fad juice people throw around. Show me the facts.

Yup, as you may or may not have noticed, the UCLA study was a bit of a mess… It compares mixed juices with fresh fruit and in some cases dry powder. We also believe there could be significant methodological flaws as well… BTW, The Co-Investigator of the study has a POM connection… Needless to say, the study was, well less than scientific if you catch my drift.

If you were going to compare pure fruits, why would you have selected our Acai/Mango blend rather than our Pure Pulp? This is a rhetorical question BTW : )

That’s right… fruit juices compare to fruit juices and fruits to fruits. Weather something is super is subjective (not scientific). Both sides of my brain rest assured that our products are indeed super (fresh, potent, organic, fair trade, yummy, driving ecological sustainability etc.)

I really think you’d like our Pure Pulp Smoothie packs! They yield over 10,000 ORAC/3.5oz (100g) individual smoothie pack.

Thank you for your candid opinions – I mean it!

I’m happy to share that we have a clinical trial (controlled human pilot study) about to publish showing real world benefit in our acai lowering blood sugar and insulin.

TBC & Happy Holidays All,

-skanda

One of the products tested under the acai juice category, was Sambazon Mango Uprising (lot ASA07029 APR 2007, lot 0610T HA16PTK13, 4/7/2007, lot ASA07073 12 JUN 2007).

The study found that this product had an ORAC average of 17.1 umoles/ml. That’s even less than ORAC-anemic MonaVie (22.81 umoles/ml.), and well behind Black Cherry Juice (25.3 umoles/ml.), Blueberry Juice (20.6 umoles/ml.), Concord Grape Juice (25.9 umoles/ml.), and Pomegranate Juice (25 umoles/ml.). I can see why you don’t advertise your ORAC. The average phenolic content of acai juices (all brands) was 2.1 mg/ml. Blueberry juice was 2.3 mg/ml., Concord Grape Juice was 2.6 mg/ml., and Pomegranate Juice was 3.8 mg/ml.

One red delicious apple (150 gm. avg) will give you an ORAC value of 6,413 umoles. An 8 oz. glass of Sambazon Mango Uprising will give you an ORAC value of 3,034 umoles.

So, again, fruit juices do not compare to fruits. Please stop insisting that these are some type of super juices. They are not. If anyone wants to drink your product, I have no objections, because the price is far more reasonable than MonaVie. But super, it is not.

-ed