MonaVie Scam » ChromaDex http://www.juicescam.com Is MonaVie a Scam? Fri, 18 May 2012 15:01:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Men’s Journal Proves MonaVie Lacks Nutrition http://www.juicescam.com/mens-journal-proves-monavie-lacks-nutrition/ http://www.juicescam.com/mens-journal-proves-monavie-lacks-nutrition/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:01:20 +0000 MonaVie Scam http://www.juicescam.com/?p=63 MonaVie touts it’s 19 different fruits and it’s star ingredient, the acai berry, every chance it gets. Is one to assume that makes for a super-juice? MonaVie would have you think so. However, rather than take MonaVie’s highly biased word for it, why not have an independent 3rd party test it? Well that’s exactly what Men’s Journal did.

Men’s Journal commissioned independent (i.e. non-biased) lab ChromaDex to test various fruit juices. Miriam Pappo, director of clinical nutrition at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, says that there are four things to look for in a juice:

  • Phenolic Acids – To help prevent cancer
  • Anthocyanins – To prevent aging
  • Vitamin C – To aid in healing wounds
  • Beta-carotene – To boost the immune system

Given that, Men’s Journal had 8 juices tested:

Juice Phenolic Acids Anthocyanins Vitamin C Beta-carotene Cost
Bolthouse Farms Purple Carrot No Mention 162mg most of all No Mention No Mention $1.25/serving
Vemma “Sky-high” “only juice with beta-carotene” $1.88/serving
Tropicana Orange Juice “fair levels” “Superhigh” $0.75/serving
Welch’s Grape Juice highest of all juices tested “good levels” “good levels” $0.75/serving
AgroLabs Superberry Upgrade “moderate levels” “moderate levels” $0.84/serving
Naked Pomegranate Blueberry “2nd of juices” “4th of juices” $1.25/serving
MonaVie Active “extremely low” “extremely low” 1/5 of Welch’s $1.20/serving
Kagome Purple Roots & Fruits “high” “okay” none detected none detected $0.94/serving

Conclusion: Looking at this table, it seems pretty clear to me that Welch’s Grape juice is the only juice with 3 good levels or better. At 75 cents a serving it is also the cheapest. MonaVie on the other hand scored poorly in all four criteria. It’s another example of how you can get more for your money by skipping MonaVie and going with a traditional juice.

Originally posted 2009-09-16 21:16:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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