We put the leading brands under a laboratory microscope to see which are best for you.
by Jamie Beckman
In a perfect world we’d all eat three apples a day to get our daily dose of vitamins and antioxidants, but let’s face it: Toting around a fruit basket isn’t easy. Which is why some companies claim that drinking their “superjuices” is nearly as good as chowing down on a Granny Smith. American consumers have bought the hype, boosting juice sales to $662 million in 2007. But are juices a sound substitute for the real thing? Miriam Pappo, director of clinical nutrition at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, says four ingredients make a juice nutritionally beneficial: phenolic acids (to prevent cancer), anthocyanins (to prevent aging), vitamin C (to aid in healing wounds), and beta-carotene (to boost the immune system). Plus: “Studies have found that if you replenish your glycogen levels within 15 minutes of exercising — which is easily done with juice — it is very helpful for the next workout,” Pappo says. We commissioned and paid for independent lab tests* of several juices to find out which ones are worth reaching for.
1. Bolthouse Farms Purple Carrot
The Claim: “Each serving delivers over 700 mg of anthocyanins plus a wide range of other vitamins, minerals, fibers, and phytochemicals.”
The Reality: Our test
found only 162 mg, but that’s still the most of all the juices.
Best For: Preventing memory loss. Anthocyanins can enhance brain cell connections and even stimulate neuronal regeneration.
Price: $5 for 32 oz; $1.25/serving
2. Vemma
The Claim: “Quite possibly the most powerful liquid antioxidant program in the world!”
The Reality: Sky-high vitamin C levels and solid in antioxidants; the only juice that contained beta-carotene.
Best For: Staying healthy. Beta-carotene helps cells communicate, which in
turn enhances the immune system and flushes out tumor-causing “old” cells.
Price: $30 for 32 oz; $1.88/serving (a 2-oz shot per day)
3. Tropicana Orange Juice
The Claim: “Our 100%
Orange Juice has the delicious taste you love and the vitamin C nutrition you need.”
The Reality: Superhigh levels of vitamin C, unsurprisingly, and it also had fair levels of phenolics.
Best For: Fighting colds. For those not into a grape taste, the C in this (shown in some to help shorten colds) is a nice, cheap second option.
Price: $3 for 32 oz; $0.75/serving
4. Welch’s
The Claim: “An antioxidant superjuice — you could call
it the ‘original’ superjuice,
it has been around so long.”
The Reality: The highest level of phenolics in the bunch, plus good anthocyanins and vitamin C.
Best For: Winelike health benefits. Phenolics (also found in vino) can slow the growth of certain cancers and fight bad bacteria and viruses.
Price: $3 for 32 oz; $0.75/serving
5. AgroLabs Superberry Upgrade
The Claim: “You reap the benefits of cellular anti-aging, revitalized hair, skin and nails, all-day energy, and antioxidants that scavenge free radicals.”
The Reality: Contained only moderate levels of anthocyanins and phenolics.
Best For: A cheap drink. It probably won’t knock 20 years off your appearance, but it does offer decent antioxidant levels.
Price: $27 for 32 oz; $0.84/serving (a 1-oz shot per day)
6. Naked Pomegranate Blueberry
The Claim: “If antioxidants are the foot soldiers in the war against cell-damaging free radicals, then Pomegranate Blueberry is a Five-Star General.”
The Reality: It ranked second among those tested for levels of anthocyanins and fourth for phenolics.
Best For: Fighting cancer. But only a bit better than Welch’s, which is cheaper.
Price: $5 for 32 oz; $1.25/serving
Not So Super
These well-marketed juices didn’t live up to expectations.
MonaVie Active
Packaged in a high-end-looking wine bottle, MonaVie tested extremely low in anthocyanins and phenolics. Even apple juice (which also tested poorly) has more phenolics than this Utah-based company’s juice. Plus, MonaVie’s vitamin C level was five times lower than that of Welch’s Grape Juice. That’s not many nutrients, especially at $1.20 a serving.
Kagome Purple Roots & Fruits
This juice, from Tokyo-based Kagome, is available for purchase in the United States on Amazon.com. It combines a number of fruits and vegetables, but was a “non-detect” on vitamin C and beta-carotene. Even its high phenolics and okay anthocyanin levels don’t justify the price ($0.94 per serving). All of that translates to a let-down, especially when the name — Purple Roots & Fruits — sounds so healthy.
* All tests were conducted and approved by contract-testing laboratory ChromaDex. Test results may vary up to 15 percent.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Juice Boy
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Kristy Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Mike,
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December 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Vemma has finished #1 in clinical studies. Check it out at http://www.myvemma.com/tonydecondo
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Craig Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I’m 52, I’ve been a Vemma customer since April of ‘08. I sleep through the night, no more midnight trips to the bathroom, joint pain gone, my seventeen year old son had bad allergies that he no longer suffers with, (5 weeks in) my wife has loads of energy and is now working out every day! She never did this in twenty years of marraige. Vemma gave us a new lease on life. We do P90X six days a week, mountain bike, hike and swim. Check it out at http://www.got2hvvemma.com
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Vemma is the top of healthy and nutrition drinks in the world. Please check it out at:
http://www.myvemma.com/dickersonsverve
and
http://www.myverve.com/dickersonsverve
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December 13th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Why can’t people just eat fruit and veggies anymore? What’s the need for “superjuices” anyway? Are we really that lazy that we can’t bother eating fruit and vegetables directly?
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Eric Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Lazy- no. Busy- yes. But, Vemma is a super supplement that tastes more like Juice. I can’t eat 55 eggs a day to get my Vit D (1100 IU) which is what we need and majority of population is LOW on it. Or 5 large potatoes (niacin) or 19 bananas (Riboflavin) and 35 other nutrients and anti-oxidants. My family gets them ALL in one 2 oz shot of VEmma. (See “Vicki’s” Reply below on 1/31-09)
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Chuck Bartok Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Takes just as long to eat a serving of Fresh Fruits and vegetables, a lot less costly and overall better in the result column.
But I do Drink Fresh Juice daily also (even a HIGH priced Supplement for past 5 years).
How can anyone be too busy to care for themselves?
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December 13th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Thanks to the awesome words above from Miriam Pappo, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, I hope more people are enlightened to the importance of Vitamins and Minerals supplenemts in preventing chronic diseases.
Thanks for your tests Men’s Journal.
http://www.VitaminCureSecrets.com
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December 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am
MonaVie’s claim to fame is that its antioxidant level is off the roof. If you want Vitamin C, drink orange juice. If you want anthocyanins, drink green tea. If you want antioxidants and phytonutrients, as well as a wide range of other nutrients representing a whole health spectrum, drink MonaVie. This study done for Men’s Journal is deeply flawed and looks to me a slam against a powerful, growing competitive force in the wellness industry (MonaVie) dressed up as an “independent” study.
The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry recently published a study of MonaVie Active that is unbiased and subject to peer review. This study, cited on the website of the lab that did the testing, “demonstrated that when subjects, 19 to 52 years of age, consumed 4 ounces of Monavie, 91% of them showed a significant inhibition of lipid peroxidation in their serum within two hours even when in a state of oxidative stress compared to no evidence of inhibition when consuming a placebo subjects believed was also an antioxidant.”
In other words, MonaVie is a functional food beverage that actually works, and this isn’t just a hyped-up claim, the science backs it up. By all means drink the juices that Men’s Journal recommends. But if you want a juice that actually PERFORMS, drink MonaVie.
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Mario Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Please point me to the Monavie study? Thanks
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December 14th, 2008 at 8:23 am
The website i mentioned didn’t appear in my previous post. Here it is again:
http://www.aibmr.com/news/story.php?id=2
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December 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
ITS FUNNY THAT MONAVIE IS A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY IN 3.5 YEARS WITH A PRODUCT YOU SAY SCAMS PEOPLE. 1.6 MILLION ARE IN MONAVIE AND MOST OF THEM ARE IN OR DRINK IT BECAUSE THEY FEEL THE DIFFRENCE. AND YES MONAVIE HAS STUDIES ON PEOPLE AND THE EFFECTS. I GUESS THE WIND ALWAYS BLOWS HARDEST AT THE TOP OF THE LATTER. MONAVIE FOR LIFE.
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December 14th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I wonder how the rankings on this list would change if you took cost and serving size into account. For example, the second and third items on this list, respectively, are Vemma (at $30 for 32 ounces) and Tropicana orange juice (at $3 for 32 ounces).
A serving size of Vemma is explicitly stated here as two ounces. You didn’t say what the serving size is for Tropicana, but I can extrapolate from the cost-per ounce and cost per serving that it is eight ounces. OK, so Vemma has more antioxidants and nutrients per ounce than Tropicana, but is the difference really so much that a two-ounce serving of Vemma is better than an eight-ounce serving of Tropicana?
And since Vemma costs ten times as much, per ounce, as Tropicana, is it really a better deal? For the price of a two-ounce serving of Vemma, you could have twenty ounces of Tropicana. You probably can’t easily drink twenty ounces in one sitting, but however much you can comfortably drink, surely has to have a lot more nutrition than a measly two ounces of Vemma.
It seems to me that these overpriced, overhyped “Superjuice” products have a very stiff burden of proof to overcome. They not only need to prove that they are better for your health than more common fruit juice products that you can find at your supermarket for only a few dollars a bottle; but they need to prove that they are so much better that they can justify prices of ten or twenty times that of the supermarket juices. Is there even one that comes close to meeting this burden of proof? It seems to me that there is not.
I suppose I should disclose a basis on which I may be seen as biased. As it happens, I work for a company that, among other lines of products*, makes a line of juice products that are among those that you’ll find at the supermarket for a few dollars a bottle. I’m not in any marketing capacity, and I don’t have any job duties or financial stake in promoting any of my company’s products; I am just a humble forklift operator (or at least as humble as it is reasonable to expect someone to be who is licensed to operate a forklift) working in the shipping department of one of my company’s factories.
* We’re most famous for soup. Think of the very first brand of canned soup that comes to mind. Yes, •THAT• company.
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a l perry ll Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
bob you should visit my website and see that vemma contains more minerals, vitamins and antioxidents that orange juice. the health benefits and nutrition to be gotten by using this product make it very cost effective.
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Vicki Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Regarding Vemma, See my reply under Vicki below on Jan. 31, 2009.
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Mario Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Bob, I am in some agreement…sure these juices may contain beneficial things we need, but the price has to be high to pay all the “silver excecutives” in the company. If this product was on the shelves at my local coop it would be less. Part of the cost went into the packaging…the presentation is flawless…beautifully executed…but I am not decorating a chateau with the bottle…who cares what the bottle looks like…it what the bottle contains that matters.
These products sold through network marketing companies are always over-inflated. I wonder just how much the placebo effect comes into play…the potential to become wealthy selling nutritional products can play tricks on the mind.
Where are the documented, 3rd party peer reviewed science studies for Monavie? Could someone point me to them? I need to see them. Distributors selling this product who make claims…structure and disease related claims mean nothing to me. Thanks
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December 15th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Lets not forget that juices on the shelf bought in the store have a lot of sugar and we all know a lot of sugar consumed in a day is not good for anybody. Store bought juices will also not have the same nutritional content when so much is extracted from them when they are being processed. I say if people notice a difference in their over all health when taking some other juice than available on a shelf in a store, keep drinking what ever makes you feel good. Juice it up juice junkies!
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December 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Drink this drink that, now drink this… When will that ever end??
Here’s a much better product, and you don’t have to drink it and hope it works. I’ve lost 16 pounds in less than 3 weeks, results you can see! Check out my chcolate website and see the best new health product, hands down! Yes, that’s chocolate, real healthy chocolate!
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December 21st, 2008 at 3:49 am
Doug. Have you actually read the Monavie study, or do you merely mention it with the hope that nobody will bother reading it? Your citation, by the way, is just a review. I’d suggest you read the actual study.
Monavie and Monavie distributors like to flaunt the extremely high ORAC value (”a measure of antioxidant power”) given for their “star” fruit, the acai berry. This is the crown jewel of the drink, and great health benefits are claimed to come from this berry.
Well, what does Monavie’s very own juice blend (JB) study show? ORAC testing was NOT used in the main randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study!
How could that be? Afterall, why would Monavie go to all the trouble of trying to claim exclusive rights to a freeze-drying process that results ( “on a gram-for-gram basis”) in an acai berry powder ORAC score “higher than any other fruit or vegetable tested to date”?
With so much hype about ORAC scores, why wasn’t ORAC testing used in the main clinical trial?
Because, first there was a pilot study. And what was the conclusion of that study? Well, let me quote them directly so that I don’t get accused of “a slam against a powerful, growing competitive force in the wellness industry.” They said:
“Because the ORAC testing did not result in a trend toward increased antioxidant activity, it was not used in the subsequent randomized control trial.”
There you have it. Plain and simple. All of a sudden the ORAC scores don’t look so good.
Still, Monavie has a published study in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. And distributors can market it as “unbiased and subject to peer review.” That’s impressive sounding stuff.
Hopefully, no one will actually read it.
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tony Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Hey MONAV, instead of listening to others educate yourself, drink mona vie and FEEL the difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 21st, 2008 at 5:12 am
Jamie wrote:
» Lets not forget that juices on the shelf
» bought in the store have a lot of sugar
» and we all know a lot of sugar consumed
» in a day is not good for anybody. Store
» bought juices will also not have the same
» nutritional content when so much is extracted
» from them when they are being processed.
What is it that you think is being “extracted” from juice when it is used to make store-bought juice products; and how is it that you think this is happening. Your statement does not appear to make any sense at all.
And for the record, most of the juice-based products that my company makes do not contain any sugar other than what was naturally present in the juices used to make these products.
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December 26th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I’m no genius, Doug, but I’m reasonably certain that the anthocyanins that you so readily dismiss are, in fact, the antioxidants measured in the açaí berry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Açaí_Palm#Antioxidants_of_a.C3.A7a.C3.AD_raw_materials. As a matter of fact, anthocyanins, phenols and vitamin C are all antioxidants. So the fact that all three are lacking on MonaVie’s product is discouraging. Yes, by all means, drink green tea, drink orange juice and drink MonaVie - but it might be best to understand your product before you so vehemently defend it.
It might be interesting, to those of you not so entrenched in product sales, to read a few other entries (all with citations) in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphenol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Açaí_Palm
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December 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
You often can’t get fruits and veggies in the remote locations where I go 40+ weeks each year; but you can always find a bottle of juice.
I’ve survived stage IV cancer - twice. And I’m rather determined - no, obsessed, really - with making sure I never get it again. Opting for juice instead of artificially colored/flavored sugar water (aka Coke/Pepsi/et al) is making a HUGE difference in my ability to live strong.
Thanks for a VERY useful article.
(And, by the way, the hardest place to find authentic juice that’s not loaded with procesed sugar? Disney World)
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Melanie Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I will be happy to sell you some Monavie juice packs that you can carry any where in the world and never be without juice again. (The glass bottle is nice at home in your own refrigerator, but the soft single serving packs are great for traveling.)
100% juice, no water, so low in sugar diabetics can take it, unbelievably low in calories. The phenols this talks about are AKA plant sterols. There are in vitro studies - and one human study that someone mentioned earlier re: cancer.
This was a very one sided article. Do some research on your own. I think you would like the product. I’ve tried all of them and I like Monavie the best - I believe in it or I wouldn’t sell it.
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January 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
If it cost more than $5 dollars a bottle like MonaVie and Vemma, then most likely it’s supporting a scam! Don’t be fooled by these juice companies making miraculous claims or fixing a health issue just so the sales rep can make money in a barely legal pyramid business.
It’s a placebo effect!
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Vicki Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Vemma is a Super Supplement, not really a “Super Juice”- it was just called that by the Men’s Journal article. Vemma has xtra large amts. of vit, min. and antioxidants-NOT in pill form- so is about 80% MORE absorbable then pills/caps. Definitely not a juice, though it tastes like a home juiced mixture! One would HAVE TO EAT: 9 avocados (vit E); 55 eggs (Vit D), 3 stalks broccoli (iron); 1 cup spinach (vit A); 19 med bananas (Riboflavin=B); 62 oz Cheddar cheese (Vit B-12); & 7 other vitamins which would mean having to eat 59 other items. Plus double digit minerals and antioxidants not listed above. (Check a Vemma website)ALL of this is in ONE 2 ounce serving of VEmma! I personally Can’t eat that well every day, so my kids and I drink 2 oz. of Vemma every am. I mix it in w/ my OJ. All backed up by MD’s and clincial studies. ONLY supplement listed in the PDR (Physician’s Desk Reference)= important to me as a Registered Nurse.
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Melanie Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
You think so … then explain why my total cholesterol is down to 114 after years of being on 2 - 3 medications and it still being 220 - 255? I can’t eat dairy or raw vegetables or fruits, I don’t eat red meat but once a week and I exercise vigorously 2 - 3 times a week. 3 months on Monavie pulse and active (I also have arthritis) and I feel a lot better - I’m only 53.
Monavie Active contains plant sterols and has FDA approval because that is what drug companies use to make cholesterol medication.
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Tony T. Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Miss Melanie you rock!!!! You are just one of the countless smart people, who after drinking Mona Vie see and FEEL the difference!!! I was VERY skeptical until I stopped listening to the negative folk, and tried it my self. I will take it for the rest of my life!!! To all the negative ones out there who just want to argue, it’s your funeral!!!!! more juice for us…Get jacked on the juice!!!!!!
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klonny Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Amen! it’s like a darn cult with these superjuice people, $30-40 a bottle? I guess it’s true what W.C. Fields said.
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January 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Buy fruits and veggies and support the American Farmer! And save money!
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Claude Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Have you shopped for fruits and veggies lately? I am an advocate of eating more of them, but they are not cheap!
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Chuck Bartok Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Fruits and vegetables..not cheap !!!!
Words like this from a culture that pays for TV reception to watch idiocy and Drinks $4.50 Lattes regularly.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables are the LOWEST cost
Wellness stimulating products available.
Buy Seasonal and Local and your Bank account and Health account will GROW
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Claude Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Actually I was speaking in favor of the juices because local fruits and veggies are not all that cheap. I believe in doing both.
Cost comparing the amount of fruits and veggies you need to eat to get the same antioxidant as a serving of juice, the juice starts to look pretty good.
For the record, I don’t pay for TV reception (in fact I am not presently connected to the outside world) and I don’t drink coffee, let alone Lattes.
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Chuck Bartok Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am
You exhibit standards of Excellence!
Keep it up
January 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am
Your article was quite intriguing and the information quite useful. Will check your site often to see other great posts you make! Regards
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March 1st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Let’s get back to the ORAC statements
Mon Avie, boasts the “high antioxidant” value of the Acai Berry which I am sure we will agree is very high. But they make reference to their beverage as being high in anti oxidants
IF this was true then they would back up this statement with 3rd party independent lab testing from Brunswick Labs.
Forget the double blind placebo BS … this sounds almost as bad as FreeLife’s “4 Master Molecule Polysaccharides”.
WHY is it, many companies that rely on HYPE, SMOKE & Mirrors & BS won’t back up their HIGH Antioxidant juice claims with this testing.
The answer … they DON’T want you to know
Why don’t you look at where most of Mon Avie’s reps came from … & who they followed when they left a certain “grandaddy of them all” company
They suggest that you consume 2-4 oz /day, which would mean that a bottle would last for 7 days at the highest consumption rate, = 1 cs per mth.
The ultimate goal of the leaders is to have EVERY rep buying at least 1 cs / mth, but don’t forget to get 1 for your spouse & get on autoship
This is 1 of the quietest products on the market
ORADICAL 161,541 32oz bottle / $30US (tested by Brunswick) - and they pay a higher compensation than Mon Avie !
I found a juice at GNC that ran about $ 28US & had an ORAC of just over 120,000, again tested by Brunswick, I can’t remember the name …
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Great Stuff…been taking it for about two years with great results!
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March 5th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
In the old days, concoctions like Monavie were called “snake oil”.
“It’ll cure what ails ya, folks!”
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March 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
So funny when all you MonaVie sellers/scammers get all worked up when the truth is told. Monavie = Snake oil
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March 15th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
It always makes me wonder if the guy or gal who wrote the article was in fact a distributor for one of the companies listed with such wonderful results. I would like to see the ACTUAL test results from ChromaDex.
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klonny Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:04 am
not unless he worked for Welches…
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March 23rd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Bolthouse Purple carrot has a benenfit that is not mentioned, but significant. You can get kids to drink it, unlike all other brands of carrot juice.
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March 25th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Bah! I am so sick of MLM products. The whole foundation of how they are sold defeats the sales approach to me. I work in the wellness industry, and the employees I serve come to me asking if I would give these things a shot (Vemma, Mona Vie, Juice Plus, etc.). I am a classic target, like doctors (since we have so much influence with the population we serve).
If you approach me to promote a product from an MLM line, you have just lost credibility with me. The people at the top make money, and the whole line just flutters with anticipation of how they will make money. Do you honestly think that people will believe they are unbiased?
You want to see if your product floats? Put it in grocery stores/health food stores…at prices that are actually realistic. Don’t give us this sob story about marketing/advertising costs making it impossible to do. Other start up companies were successful in the energy drink market, and the initial order is typically only 5,000 cases. Put Vemma in the store next to Bolt Farms if you are so proud of your product. What? You don’t think it will sell at $32 a bottle in the juice cooler?
Where the hell is Juice Plus today? They still plug along picking up members here and there, but I have come into contact with MANY more people who got sucked in at almost $40 a month before they felt it wasn’t worth it.
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Wow, I am looking for a good company with an affordable marketable product that is very healthy but still affordable……how do you get past the hype and get the real scoop??? Is there a company that has affordable supplements……..I want facts with independent lab reports,
is that possible???
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April 10th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Cajufit, your statement “If you approach me to promote a product from an MLM line, you have just lost credibility with me” is riduculous. So what your saying unless your promoting a product from a traditional company where the CEO and all the top level management make out like fat cats your pedaling junk? I agree that there is certainly a fair share of MLM’s that market overhyped over prices products that we don’t need but to generalize them all is just ignorance. People at the top make all the money is certainly not true either in all MLM’s. It’s pay for performance in most.
I have never been in a MLM until 2 years ago. Oh, I certaintly looked at many over the years but after evaluating them said no thank you. This one was free to join and actually makes good business sense. We happen to handle a funtional beverage as well called “Oradical” and before introducing it my company did their homework and had it tested by brunswick labs to make sure it was among the best on he market. To date it has one of the highest ORAC scores on the planet. I was just in Walmart and they sell a product made by Nature’s Answer called Mangosteen ORAC 7 it sells there for $16.99 a bottle and that is 16 servings (actually to get the minimum ORAC you need per day to neutralize all free radicals it would only give you 8 servings) and it has a ORAC value of 1,755 per serving. Our Oradical has 5,385 ORAC per one ounce serving as tested by brunswick labs and you can buy it for $32 per 32 ounce bottle. That’s less than a dollar a day. Can you eat 6-9 servings a day of fruits and vegtables for less than that? The USDA did a study that said people should get at least 3,000 ORAC units a day the average american gets between 900 and 1,200 per day.
Who offers the better value my Oradical or the juice setting on the shelf at wal-mart? Because our company uses word of mouth marketing, relationship marketing it makes it junk in your mind?
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April 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
No I have not written any guest post for other blogs…. thats if you were responding to my post. Just stumbled across this one.
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April 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I’m a Monavie distributor and I really don’t care what ONE magazine and ONE test tells compared to ALL the other positive facts of PROOF that are out there! When I look at a product I look at all the benefits it can give me for my dollar. If I’m spending out $200 a month on Cola’s that are poisoning my body to allow me to get sick and cancer; I’d rather change that and spend $200 on Monavie to make sure my family was healthy. If I’m spending $500+ on Medical a month due to premiums, doctor visits, and medication. I would rather spend the $200 - $300 a month buying Monavie for my entire family so they didn’t need to pay out the expense on Medical. If I have to spend out thousands of dollars on Carpel Tunnel surgery and possibly still not be able to use my hands and arms; I’d rather spend $150 a month on myself for Monavie to cure my Carpel Tunnel! If I have to take Headache medicines for headaches, migraines, fevers, and so forth; I’d rather spend that money on Monavie so I don’t have any of those problems anymore. If I have to go in for Allergy shots! Which some people hate needles! I’d rather drink my Monavie and not have to have shots or Allergy medication. If I have to wear glasses and possibly go blind before I’m 50; I’d rather drink Monavie and never have to wear glasses again.
Before I drank Monavie I had these problems: Acid Reflux, Acne, Degenerative and Stigmatism eyesight almost legally blind, Carpel Tunnel, a Knee about to blow from low Cartilage it was (cracking, crunching, & painful), Aches and Pains in my back due to Scoliosis, Allergies that were deadly even on Benedryl 2 times a day, Chemical Brain dificiency (Depression), Anxiety Attacks, Lack of a good nights Sleep, not being able to work out very quickly after over doing it @ home or @the gym. Not being able to stay very active through my day. My daughter falling asleep at the table only 3-4 hours after waking up and she’s a fifth grader.
I’ve only been drinking Monavie for almost 2 months. My Carpel Tunnel is gone, My knee doesn’t need cortizone shots anymore the (cracking, cruching, and snapping, and pressure feeling) is gone, I don’t have Acid Reflux anymore, I went to my eye Dr. and he says that my eyes are whiter, my stigmatism is better and my eye sight has improved! I don’t have my Anxiety Attacks anymore and I was on Zanax and other meds for them, I’m sleeping great and not tired when I get up, I feel happier and more active throughout my day, my Acne has gotten a lot better to where I have minimal breakouts and less stuff in my pores, My back pains are gone, I don’t even take Allergy medicine anymore, my body recuperates from a hard workout faster than it did before I was drinking Monavie, and it is safe for all ages to drink. My daughter and I both felt a differece in enrgy one hour after the first 2oz. we drank!
That was my testimony. As Tony said and we all have said it, “Taste it, Drink it, and Share it.” that’s all we do! It’s changing people’s lives and that’s the real truth! We don’t need a study in a lab to know that. We see it all around us. They should do a survey on the people who have drank it and see what the outcome is. The Survey should have down how many bottles the person drank before they noticed a difference, what kind of ailments they had before drinking it, how many ailments they have now after continuing to drink it, and how much money they have saved since drinking it.
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april Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Little Typo there. Our motto is “Drink It, Feel It, Share It!” If you drink it you will feel it one day or another. After you feel better your not going to want to feel bad again and your going to become a juice junkie!
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MPF Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 2:40 am
So, you’re claiming that Mona Vie solved these problems for you? You seem to be claiming medical benefits derived from Mona Vie in your previous post. Do you realize that the contract you signed to become a Mona Vie distributor explicitly bans you from making such claims, as it can get the ENTIRE COMPANY in trouble with the FDA, as it has been before?
Christ, you people are zombies. It’s juice made from freeze dried fruits, and contains significant amounts of sodium benzoate…you know, that stuff the Mona Vie army was pointing at soda’s unhealthiness for containing?
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MPF Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Little note from the FDA re : Mona Vie
http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/2007/UTVokes.pdf
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April 20th, 2009 at 12:38 am
monavie rocks. I am feeling great, and i get the juice for free. why , cause i got 2 sponsers, 1 on each leg buying a case. They get it for free, why cause they have 2 sponsers right and left leg. You want monavie for free, get and just get 2 others and show them how to get it for free. You got nothing to lose.
Want to know more, email me.
Be healty and wealth if you like!
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April 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
All I can say is “DRINK IT. FEEL IT. ”
and the so-called “lab-results” identified no drugs in MonaVie–just fruit
I wonder why my cholesterol is 30 points lower than it was before MonaVie, and the pain in my right knee has mysteriously disappeared…hmmm
Name one of the juices above that can produce the same kind of results MonaVie does.
Name one company whose mission it is to change as many lives as possible?
If it wasn’t the real deal, it wouldn’t be blowing away the competition.
Do your research. There are pages upon pages of credibly published scientific research that trump one paragraph of bullshit.
Cheers
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ronw Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
What other juices did you try for an extended period before Mona Vie? And what were the results of each juice?
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April 25th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Even if MonaVie was just pure, clean water I would still support them.
That is how incredible this company and group of people are!
When you become part of MonaVie, you become part of a family–a family of helping others.
We are achieving dreams and changing people’s lives (around the world now after only 3 short years) every day. No other company will ever be able to duplicate the success of Monavie–success that spans from the management, to the distributors, to the acai harvesters themselves. In traditional business, only the management succeeds.
You can sit there and whine and complain, but the truth is, no other company in this industry will ever come close to achieving the level of success that MonaVie has, because of their simple philosophy–HELPING OTHERS.
We are MonaVie.
We stand alone.
Believe in your dreams, and come see what’s possible.
Derek Snow
Silver Executive
Northport, AL
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April 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
There are a few strange things about the “article”.
1. All other “juices” noted have a picture of the product bottle, but not one for MonaVie- why - hmmm?
2. Not once does the article mention the opti-acai berry - the MonaVie crown jewel. So I searched this website and get 0 hits on acai or acai berry. Strange don’t you think since mens journal said the acai berry is the berry that packs a punch!
3. The only other targeted juice not offered in the supermarket in the comparison is “MonaVie”. Why?
I drink MonaVie and love it. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Sipped Vemma just to say I did and it tastes like aweful orange soda! Besides, who wants caffiene in a nutritional drink?
MonaVie - “drink it!, feel it! share it!” for Life!
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May 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
kuy 32 OZ = ? ML
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May 11th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I tried MonaVie and it made me vomit. It also made my cat run away from me.
Don’t believe me? Then why would I believe you when you say it made you feel great?
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June 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Geez… u all are taking this way too seriously… for those of you that down network marketing or sales in general… you are silly… that is like me downing softball because i’m not good at it. the fact is that there are many successful people in MLMs and many more that fail. Just like in the real estate industry.. i read an article the other day that said the average licenced real estate agent in the US sells 1/2 of one house per year…lol… so i guess that makes real estate a scam right… or maybe the article was biased towards renting…hahaha.. who knows… im not a mona vie rep.. but i liked the juice… i liked vemmas energy over rock star and red bull… its a matter of preference… try them… buy them if you like.. but don’t discourage people for pursuing an opportunity… it does suck that some sales people, especially the less experienced rely on hype to get there products sold… but you can find that on virtually every TV commercial you see… the answer in trying the product to see what you like then making a decision on whether or not it is worth the money to YOU! I would be willing to bet that many of you that were talking about dollars per ounce or serving have something you posess that cost more than average… purse … golf clubs .. cars… you could get by with something for less… but because of your lifestyle you paid more for something you liked and would use… POINT IS… DONT BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE!
sorry the the bad grammar,spelling and punctuation… it took all the energy I had to just type the words… guess I need some juice!
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June 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am
An interesting analysis of the responses to this article is that over half are trying to promote their juice product - mostly to each other. As if MonaVie people are the ideal Vemma prospects and vice versa.
If this is you, who taught you that or what made you think this was a good idea?
IS THIS REALLY YOUR TARGET MARKET?
Nice video explaining what target market really means for those in network marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjEiNUstPoU
Maybe then you won’t have to defend your product to the wrong people.
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June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 am
There is a more advanced juice that you should see and FEEL before you seal your opinion,All juices are good but,which one is the best.Use your free agency,and decide which one is right for you!With me it was neuropathy from diabetes (numb,cold feet),hip joint pain.In one week my feet started getting warm (wife noticed first) and my hip is easing off more everyday.My body is now healing instead of going downhill,even at 50 yrs. old!Don’t mean to offend anyone by being direct.I just feel my oats which I thought were long gone.I spoke to a guy yesterday who has been on it and he said,”I feel guilty for feeling this good at 6o yrs.old”
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I wish they would have tested Kenzen CIAGA. Much more benefits than the drinks listed above. No water added, No Sugar added, No perservatives. This is something that most cannot claim. The WHOLE fruit is used in the making of the juice. 21 whole fruits.
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June 27th, 2009 at 2:13 am
And out come the MLM cultists to defend their wonder juices. I had some “friend” of mine (someone I had not seen in 10 years) try to sell me this junk the other day.
“I’m gonna make a gazillion dollars in six months selling this cure-all juice! I used to have cancer and be blind and crippled until I drank a glass of the stuff…now I’m healed! I’m so excited, I’m going to annoy all my soon to be ex-friends with my propaganda and get them to join so I can be fabulously wealthy!”
Such sheeple, the only juice they sell is to the people “downline” from them who have to buy the stuff as part of their business plan. If it were a legitimate product, you would see it at Wal-Mart.
Madoff should have been selling Vemma. He still could have scammed people out of their money, and he wouldn’t be in jail now.
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