When evaluatin nutritional content, it's always a good idea to ask, "whats in it for me?"
Antioxidants - are substances (ie: vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients) known for their ability to counteract the oxidation process in the body. By helping to prevent chemical damaage to your cells, antioxidants play an important role in maintaining your good health.
Phytonutrients - are naturally occurring plant nutrients found in vegetables and fruit. Especially desirable for their beneficial contribution to overall health, phytonutrients may help promote healthy immune system function.
Essential Fatty Acids - (omega 3, 6, and 9) or EFAs, are important for the role they play in many of your body's metabolic processes. EFAs are required in the human diet but must be obtained from food, as the body has no way of producing them internally.
Amino Acids - are the building blocks of protein. They can be linked together in a number of sequences to form a variety of proteins with unique functions in the body. Protein is vital to the formation of body tissue and cells.
Vitamins and Minerals - are essential for your proper growth and development, and are required for certain metabolic reactions in the body.
Complex Carbohydrates - play a number of important roles in the body, including the storage and transport of energy and structural components, as well as helping support proper immune system function.
Dietary Fiber - comes in two forms - soluble and insoluble; borth forms have long been established as a significatn boon to digestive system health.
Why MonaVie, There is cheaper brands of Fruit Juice with Acai
Our January 30th MonaVie Showcase call featured acai expert Jeff Graham, business partner of Dr. Alex Schauss and now full time with MonaVie as our new head of Product Development.
Jeff assures us of other, exciting breakthrough products in the future! He also stated that in the near future, he will have a much expanded FAQ section in our back office.
Jeff said he had just returned from another trip to Brazil where he'd worked on arrangements for securing a plentiful supply of premium quality acai berries to accommodate the tremendous growth we are enjoying.
In commenting about other acai products on the market, Jeff said that the maximum concentration of SOLIDS (skin and pulp) that can be made is 14% but that most acai blends being sold today contain only 3-5% solids -- with the rest of the content being primarily water.
Our MonaVie formulas use not only the highest possible percentage of solids, but ALSO include a substantial amount of powerful, freeze dried acai powder (Opti Acai).
This powder is exclusively available to MonaVie and NO other company. It comes from the Brazilian processing plant owned by Dr. Schauss and his partners, the entire freeze drying process being patent protected.
Aside from the exclusivity significance of this, one of the core reasons why MonaVie is delivering such sensational results is that a maximum amount of the tremendously beneficial phytonutrients in Acai fruitare captured and preserved by our proprietary methods of processing.
This is the SAME Opti Acai that has been the subject of an extensive study by the United States Department of Agriculture in recent years, in conjunction with Dr, Schauss.
Jeff Graham mentioned that he had just read the draft copy of a major scientific paper related to this research, soon to be published in the prestigious Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The comparison of ORAC values of freeze dried Opti Acai powder and the fruit the USDA has long heralded as the most powerful of antioxidants (cranberry) is certain to send shock waves through the world's marketplace.
When compared on the basis of ONE gram of powder, the "past champion" cranberry's ORAC value stands at 94. ONE gram of our Opti Acai delivers a thunderous ORAC value of 1027!!
Although numerous scientists have participated, including the USDA's two top antioxidant researchers, the LEAD author of this landmark article is Dr. Alexander Schauss!
Jeff Graham concluded his presentation by mentioning that the addition of glucosamine hydrochloride and esterified fatty acids (Celadrin) to our Active formula has been found to help greatly in repairing cartilage and joints. He also said that two of MonaVie's other fruits, acerola and camu camu, also come from Brazil.