MonaVie No More - Only Pure Acai Berry

For a long time, I have been stating that despite the exorbitant pricing, Monavie is a quality product made of high quality juices. I was doing some more independent research (because I want this blog to be an accurate and authorative source), and I came accross a Men's Journal article that did not think as highly of Monavie.

According to Men’s Journal, a nutritional analysis conducted by ChromaDex, a contract-testing laboratory, showed that MonaVie Active juice “tested extremely low in anthocyanins and phenolics” and that “even apple juice (which also tested poorly) has more phenolics”. The report also noted that “MonaVie’s vitamin C level was 5 times lower than that of Welch’s Grape Juice.”


So it seems, perhaps Monavie is not even the best source of grape and apple juice, much less Acai berry.



Acai berry is a great source of antioxidants, omega 3 oils, phytonutrients, protein and fiber. I made the switch from Monavie to pure freeze-dried acai a while back, both my body and pocketbook have felt the difference.



My advice, save your money, ditch the Monavie and buy pure acai.

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MonaVie | Acai Berry & Walmart

Acai Berry Newsflash

I recently became aware of the fact that the major wholesalers are going into direct competition with Monavie. With their huge buying power, and without the overhead of multi-level marketing commissions, they will sell their comparable products at about 50-60% less than Monavie. With several celebrities like Denise Richards, and Robin Williams onboard as Monavie fans, and a small army of independent distributors (read multilevel marketers)touting oftentimes wild claims about acai, Monavie has exploded in sales and growth. How will they fare now that they are being challenged by Sams Club and Costco?

My question, is what is the quality of acai being used in these products, after all the wholesaler's goal is the lowest possible price. Although I have often been critical of Monavie in my blog, I have always admitted that they use top quality ingredients. They may charge through the nose for them, but they are still high quality.

Compare Monavie ingredients to Frutvie
Monavie:
MonaVie Active Ingredients: Proprietary blend of acai (freeze dried powder and puree); Fruit juice from concentrate (white grape, nashi pear, acerola, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, passion fruit, apricot, prune, kiwi, blueberry, wolfberry [goji], pomegranate, and lychee, camu camu); fruit purees (pear, banana, bilberry);d-glucosamine hydrochloride, esterified fatty acids, natural flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate.

Frut A Vie ingredients list....hmm looks familiar??

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