MonaVie Lowest ORAC Score vs. Xango and Thai-go

Press Release:

Health and nutrition researcher Kimberly Day tested three of the top selling antioxidant drinks on the market to determine if they are delivering the benefits they claim to offer.

Ms. Day sent samples of MonaVie, Xango, and Thai-Go to Brunswick Laboratories, which is a nationally recognized for their antioxidant testing. The drinks were tested to determine their ORAC value. Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) is the most widely accepted method of measuring antioxidant content in food.

Results indicated that MonaVie had the lowest hydro-ORAC value (23,323), with Xango just slightly higher at 24,480. However, Thai-Go was nearly twice as high as either of the other two beverages tested, coming in at 51,939. All three drinks are comparatively priced and all are marketed as high-quality antioxidant beverages.

(We can assume that the entire bottle was tested - not serving size or per oz.)

Antioxidants work to protect your body from free radical damage. Free radicals are highly reactive forms of oxygen that are missing an electron. When they come into contact with normal molecules, they try to steal an electron, damaging the healthy cell and its DNA.

Free radical damage has long been believed to be a risk factor of many of the chronic diseases that accompany aging-including heart disease, eye degeneration, memory loss, damage from UV light, and cancer. Antioxidants, however, deactivate free radicals, preventing them from doing damage.

Comments

[Aaron Johnson]

Mona Vie, Xango, and Thai-Go are all good products. However there is a new key player in the industry. Make sure you do your research.
To your health and wealth, Aaron Johnson

[jay]

brunswick has tested alot of products. go to www.switchtosuccess.com/tigertonic for the chart

[Christian]

The problem with this press release is that it is not entirely accurate. What it does not tell you is the entire ORAC value of the juices tested. It only reports the hydro-orac value. It does not report the lipo-ORAC value or the ORACHO. Why? Why do you think? Another obvious attempt by someone to promote their own "juice" Thai-Go. Bad form if you ask me. Ms. Kimberly Day is no where to be found and as far as her credentials are concerned, lets see them. Anyone can say they are a health and nutritional counselor. Also, Brunswick Labs have not released any of this information. I would be very interested to see the entire test results from Brunswick Labs. Until then this press release is little more than propaganda designed to persuade you to drink Thai-Go.

[Christian]

The problem with this press release is that it is not entirely accurate. What it does not tell you is the entire ORAC value of the juices tested. It only reports the hydro-orac value. It does not report the lipo-ORAC value or the ORACHO. Why? Why do you think? Another obvious attempt by someone to promote their own "juice" Thai-Go. Bad form if you ask me. Ms. Kimberly Day is no where to be found and as far as her credentials are concerned, lets see them. Anyone can say they are a health and nutritional counselor. Also, Brunswick Labs have not released any of this information. I would be very interested to see the entire test results from Brunswick Labs. Until then this press release is little more than propaganda designed to persuade you to drink Thai-Go.

[JAY]

orac from a broad spectrum of ingredients is best. super foods and "magic berries" cannot stand on their own. i chose vibe not only because of the 100,000 ORAC per bottle but because all of my dr's approved it and the largest hospital in louisiana listed it on my mom's release papers following surgery. most people promote these products to make money and they get tunnel vision. i am in it for the best product for my health. vibeforme.com/145055

[Kate]

All good products, but the greatest ORAC value contained in any product on the market today is contained in Vemma ~ @ about 114,000. First of many clinical studies planned have just been released. It will be exciting to see how all these products will impact the health of this and future generations! 2 Your Good Health! www.myvemma.com/2yourgoodhealth

[Eric]

I have read many of the MLM sites for Vibe, VEMMA, and I am a distributor for Monavie. TAll these products have good claims and I have had great results with Monavie. Monavie and Vibe have good causes that they support, but I did not see that with VEMMA. I did not like the compensation plans with Vibe and VEMMA, they are to complicated and do not pay well. Monavies plan is simple and there is no question the person at the top does not recieve all the money. I hope all will look at the benefits, the taste , the compensation, and the results. Then make a clear decision.

[Evelyn Vincent]

There sure is a lot of conflicting reports on the ORAC scores of antioxidant and energy juices and many more ways to manipulate and promote the figures. I'm pretty happy with NingXia Red and I like Young Living's comp plan.

S-ORAC Scores (per 1 ounce serving) (the “S” = “Super” - Radical Absorbance Absorbance Capacity) measures a drinks ability to neutralize the dangerous superoxide free radical. [based on kunitsSODeq/Ounce, this Data is from Brunswick Laboratories, Wareham, MA.]

Scores are based on tests during 2007 - AND - with all samples "ONE" ounce was used (not truckloads or bottle(s):

NingXia Red Juice……… 363
Vibe……………………….. 87
Ageless Xtra……………… 85
Himalayan Goji………… 68
G3…………………………. 43
Xocai……………………… 13
Xango………………………. 9
Goyin………………………. 8
ViaViente…………………… 2
Frequent Sea…………… 1.2
Tahitian Noni Juice………. 1
Sibu-Balance……………… 1

See more scores here...
http://aromatherapy4u.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/comparing-the-orac-and-s-orac-scores-between-foods-and-antioxidant-juices/

Here's a link to a CBC news (Canadian) report on Goji...
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/01/goji.html

Goji apparently fudged what they tell their distributors. They've told them that Goji is highest in ORAC when compared to NingXia Red... the truth... it actually takes an entire truck load of Goji to equal "one" ounce of NingXia Red. I guess not enough distributors asked Goji corporate, "how much Goji juice did you use to make this claim?"

[Evelyn Vincent]

Wow! This is REALLY interesting... the post just above this one is a comment "I" just wrote, my name is Evelyn Vincent, I typed it in the "name" field when I made my comment.

However, in the "name" field in the above comment shows up as "Eric"??????? Who's Eric, I clicked the name and I was redirected to this:
http://www.typepad.com/t/comments?__mode=red&user_id=9750&id=108208098

Then, this:
http://www.mymonavie.com/EricBernhardt/

Let's see what happens this time. Right now, I'm seeing it with my own eyes, my name is very clearly in the name field. Let's see whose name shows up when I click on "Post"... I wonder if it will show up as posted by Evelyn Vincent... or Eric... or Joe... or ?????

[Ty Tribble - MLM Blog Author]

Ummm...your post is always above your name.

[Takuya Hikichi]

Whenever there is an argument about ORAC value, network marketers tend to get all defensive and start doing self-promotion and fall for "my company is better than yours" game. I think it's important to remember focusing solving people's problems rather than being too caught up in this argument.

Takuya Hikichi

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