The MonaVie Acai Berry (pronounced ( ah-sigh-EE ) grows in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil on the Acai Palm tree. The berry is smaller than a grape in size, dark purple in color, and the small amount of pulp it offers it outweighed by seed. The seed, comprising almost 90% of the berry, is inedible; though the pulp is said to taste like berry with a light chocolate undertone....
MonaVie Active Juice is a blend of acai berry, and 18 other fruits including; cupuacu, acerola, apricot, aronia, apple, blackberry, banana, camu camu, blueberry, bilberry, pomegranate, cranberry, cherry, concorde grape, elderberry, lychee, kiwi, pineapple, passion fruit, pear, prune, prickly pear, purple grape, strawberry, white grape, raspberry, yumberry, and wolfberry or “goji“. Each fruit was chosen specifically for its nutritional value, with the acai berry leading the group in terms of the levels of phytonutrients and anti-oxidants, as well as amino acids, trace minerals, and vitamins....
In January of 2005 former Usana VP of sales, Monarch Health Sciences owner, and Dynamic Essentials VP, Dallin Larsen together with co-founder and executive VP Henry Marsh, founded MonaVie. Larsen’s former company, Dynamic Essentials was closed by the FDA in February 2003....
Analysis conducted on MonaVie research showed that MonaVie Active Juice registered an antioxidant effect which was dependant upon the dosage ingested. The fact that the effect was measurable indicates that certain compositions in MonaVie are able to pass across the membrane of plasma surrounding cells, thereby offering protection from damage caused by oxidation within the cells....
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