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This stuff is just a modern day snake oil sold as the cure all when the only thing it does is empty your wallet.
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This stuff is just a modern day snake oil sold as the cure all when the only thing it does is empty your wallet.
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My dad was talked into buying MonaVie. The company calls 4 bottles a \"case\". A case is a little over $100. So, $25 a bottle for worthless juice. After he cancelled, Monavie kept sending him cases. It took forever to get his money back, but he persisted. What a rip off company. Every time I see a joker with a Monavie sticker on their car, I go ballistic.
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I call this and all the other miracle berry drinks 'ScAmWay Juice\".
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@Segador: Agreed. Their website's advice about the wine pairing couldn't be any more spot on, either. Trader Joe's has a great and REALLY cheap lambrusco - Le Grotte Reggiano Lambrusco. Those two things combined are a great summer desert. Sorbet + slight buzz = win
Our local independent pharmacy carries \"supplement\" juices, including an açaí one, for over $40 a bottle. It's a big bottle, but according to the directions, you're supposed to drink half a bottle twice a day. Seriously.
Is açaí juice nasty? Goji berries are supposedly another cure-all food, but I eat those because I like the taste and they're fairly cheap.
@Elizabeth Anderson: It's a little bitter, and not very sweet. I think it tastes kind of like blueberries with a hint of chocolate (but of course not sweet). I like it a lot when blended with other fruit, but don't think I'd drink it straight.
@Elizabeth Anderson: Acai is very difficult to drink by itself but can be blended with other fruit juices to make it more palatable.
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Acai juice = \"sucker\" punch.
There's plenty of fruits and veg. out there with tons of the supposed \"miracle\" antioxidants out there (blueberries, cherries, pomegranate etc.). But the best way to go is to find a local farmers market- produce grown locally, not in the depleted soil of factory farms is healthy and tastes awesome.
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\"But the best way to go is to find a local farmers market- produce grown locally, not in the depleted soil of factory farms is healthy and tastes awesome.\"
Is this your personal opinion or are there facts and research to back this statement up?
DAMN YOU ALL! YE OF LITTLE FAITH!
I was unable to sleep last night due to my neck & back pain and saw a wonderful special news report about Supple & how that beverage would cure my pain & heal arthritis. The \"Dr.\" host even arranged a special discount for me. Between that drink & my colon cleanse courtesy of that fine gentleman worried about my spackle-like impacted fecal matter, I should be good to go! I can't wait for the excitement I experience when I get the promised surprise when I look in the toilet.
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Same sales techniques used by \"recharged toner\" and \"computer screen cleaner\" salespeople. You get a \"sample order\" and then you start getting these orders you never made coming with high priced invoices. Very difficult to cancel or get refunds.
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s/elixer/elixir. Danke schön.
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@elysse: Fixed! Thanks.
Free site that's not for profit = site with budget too small for a full-time copy editor. You'd think I'd pay more attention to the spell check...
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Any prediction for the next miracle fruit/veggy/plant drink? I'm going to just go with something random here and say \"Poison Oak Smoothies!\"
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@WeAre138: new ointment made from the feces of rats. For thousands of years people in \"random little country nobody can verify\" have been using this miracle. now you too can own it.
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I had my credit card number stolen a while back. Most of the charges related to this berry. The stranges thing was that the product (whatever it might really be) was being shipped to me. The only people that profit were the business taking the card. I had a conversation with one of the security people at the bank and they said they get a lot of similar complaints.
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And now for Mannatech, who are still palming off dubious pseudoscience onto gullible punters.
\"Those same consumers can save even more moeny by not buying any more miracle drinks via infomercials or websites.\"
If this was my comment, I'd probably be disemvoweled.
@bria: PLEASE email me these corrections! I don't see them until days later, then I fix them and cry over the keyboard at how foolish I've looked for the past 36... 72... 140 hours...
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Sweet baby Jebus, that's great news. My mother, who's getting on in years and isn't all that internet savvy, got nailed by those scumbags a year ago when she ordered some green tea supplement (against better advice; she's stubborn like that). Now she can return the favor.
You mean it doesn't cure cancer? I'm shocked!
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I've read reports that point out that things like blueberry juice, and even more mundane juices have more nutritional benefit. I belong to a networking group, and when new members want to join it gets run past the rest of the group for approval. We had a MonaVie rep that wanted to join, and while the overall consensus was to have her at least come to one meeting, I was very much against it. She showed up once, and was so forceful that no one wanted her back.
Fools and their money are soon parted.
This company was a total scam. As were many who were attempting to jump on the bandwagon of Oprah and similar television shows.
However, Açaí berries are extremely potent antioxidants and very healthy fruits. The Açaí berries have comparable anti-oxidants given a certain serving amount to both small red beans and wild blueberries; however, pomegranate juice, the beans, blueberries, grape juice, and the like all are rated as higher anti-oxidants.
These antioxidants alone are enough to, in fact, fight cancer. They prevent a process known as oxidation that causes free radicals that in turn causes chain reactions that damage cells (which can lead to cancer). The antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates. Many of these antioxidants (ascorbic acid and carotenoids are commmonly found in fruits and vegetables) have cancer preventing as well as cancer fighting properties--and also can prevent brain issues, and reduce the chance for heart disease.
They aren't the savior fruit that is the be all end all of problems--but they are very healthy.
@Cole:
...ok you've hooked em...now start the pitch!
What's your product?! Orange juice enemas?! Blueberry facial scrubs?! Bananna IV drips?!
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MonaVie, Xango, etc., These drinks are being pushed with claims that they prevent cancer and cure all sorts of ailments. The company gets away with it since the 'resellers' are unaffiliated. Personally, I just feel bad for the family members of the acai pushers who have to buy a bottle to be nice and choke it down.
@wdgasu: You're right they are all the same. My evil in-law sells the Noni juice to elderly - tells all kinds of lies. One is telling them it cures or prevents cancer.
I recall 10 years or so ago, a lady that was doing my nails tried to sell me concentrated aloe vera juice. As she painted my nails, she told me \"One of our customer representatives gave this juice to a little girl in Mexico with a huge tumor on her neck, he saw her there while he was on vacation. Every day he gave her another cup of juice, and every day the tumor shrank. On the 7th day it was gone.\" I never went back to that salon again.
My mother was approached by some woman selling \"magnetic blankets\" in her retirement community. The woman told her they cured a little boy with deadly asthma attacks and he threw out his inhaler after getting this magic blanket. Said the magics \"realigned the body's molecules\" to cure disease. My mother told her to get bent.
These sales people are sick in the head.