MonaVie Juice – Do You Have The Stomach To Endure Their Competition?
With the numerous amounts of beneficial health drinks available on today’s market, it seems like exercise in itself or trying to work out now requires one to find the best nutritional products.
From açai berry products like MonaVie Active Juice to the recent addition of Nuverus Euphoria black seed beverage, they all seem to target their audience through the wellness of elevated levels of antioxidant supplements. Focusing on the success of MonaVie however, lets weed out the healthy competition that this company increasingly have to put up with which has still kept them somewhat at the top of the food chain.
Keeping on the subject of the açai berry, as well as the countless sources of dietary supplement pills such a Perfect Açai on the market, there are of course the juices. In direct contrast to MonaVie, there is a much cheaper version sold through such places of convenience like Wal-Mart Sam’s Club and Costco known as Frut A Vie. As unimaginative a name as it may sound, one bottle does cost less than half the retail price of MonaVie and does boast similar contents.
This may certainly have a dramatic effect on sales of MonaVie, but unfortunately it doesn’t comply with the exact characteristics of its leading counterpart because it is only diluted replica of the original.
Other diluted açai berry juice products stem from the more convenient, possibly thirst quenching, soft drinks corner of the market. Drinks like Sambazon Açai Juice Blends, Amazon Energy, and Antioxidant Elixir, are aimed more towards the youth culture at an affordable price range in less concentrated quantities, as maybe a drink taken as refreshment other than one consumed methodically as though it were of medicinal properties.
Moving away from the topic of the açai berry but keeping with the high antioxidant level theme, there are three other predominant juices on the market which seem to tout similar, if not exaggerated, health beneficial claims. XanGo Mangosteen Juice, Himalayan Goji Juice, and Tahitian Noni Juice are just some of many products queuing up in line to receive their easy meal ticket.
Although they are in direct competition with the açai berry and the use of antioxidants to promote wellness, the content values compared to the açai seem to be a little disappointing.
Scientific research has shown XanGo’s mangosteen juice content to have the antioxidant strength only to be slightly higher than cranberry juice, but considerably lower than blueberry juice. With goji juice, or otherwise known as wolfberry juice, the vitamin C content where most of the antioxidants originate from is similar to that of citrus fruits or strawberries, but lower than plums or blackcurrant. As for noni juice in general, the comparison of the micronutrient content unimpressively relates to that of the humble fresh orange.
Pomegranate juice is also known to be a cheap alternative to inherit a high antioxidant intake, but there lies the risk of its sweet content exceeding the maximum recommended daily allowance of sugar.
So it seems possibly for the meantime that the açai berry still has the edge over the market for claims of high ’super fruit’ antioxidant qualities, and it also looks like MonaVie may have quashed the competition over concentrated juice aspects. Only problem is though, we still don’t know how much of the berry is used in their product to dismiss any doubts. And as for antioxidants go, did anyone ever tell you that no current scientific research exists that conclude anything about their effects on human health?
Sure they have results from test tubes of their bioactivity, but we’re still not sure antioxidants make it beyond the attack our stomach acids.
