Commercial hype poses a huge problem when trying to address the validity of a product. The most recent craze is the mangosteen fruit. The fruit is loaded with antioxidants and xanthones and a lot nutritional value to you. The recent craze is driven from the fact that this fruit has about 40 xanthones which are thought to have medicinal characteristics. This is the ultimate driver for this fruit.

The company Xango is the main marketer of mangosteen, which sells it in juice form. The juice is not reasonably price at 37 dollars a bottle and for what it offers might make one wonder if it is worth it.

Many of the company’s claims are not of fact but rather beliefs. They claim their product: maintains intestinal health, supports the immune system, neutralizes free radicals, helps support cartilage and joint function, and promotes a healthy seasonal respiratory system. All of these claims are supposedly been heavily researched, however after a search on the fruit in peer review journals, I was unable to find their supporting evidence. The research that they claim was done by them, which makes it fairly biased. In fact of the 40 xanthones, they have only really studied 6 of them. In the future it might turn out to be a very medicinal fruit but as for now it has yet to be scientifically proven.

So in an essence the reason that people are so gun ho about Xango is because they stand to make a profit from selling it. They market it like it is the miracle cure all fruit. Sellers rely on people’s worries and fears about their health.

So really the juice is not bad for you but it just has not been proven to do what it claims… this is the essence of the problem, is it worth 37 bucks for a bottle of juice that’s not been accepted in the scientific community… I think not