QUESTION:
 
You have been so helpful to my questions in the past and I thank you.
My question today  is: Have you heard of Xango? what do you have to report on it's fantastic claims?
 
Thank you 
Shaila
 
 
ANSWER:
 
Thank you Shaila for the question.

Yes, I have heard of Xango, aka Mangosteen! You are the second person in two days who has asked me the same question? The other person was actually trying to recruit me into their MLM program for selling Xango disguised as a question, which happens frequently...
 
I wrote about this a couple of years ago but people continue to ask about it one or twice a month and even try to recruit me to be a dealer for it... So I feel I again need to touch on it...

Xango Ingredients listed on the Xango company site:
Reconstituted garcinia mangostana juice from whole fruit, apple juice concentrate, pear juice concentrate, grape juice concentrate, pear puree, blueberry juice concentrate, raspberry juice concentrate, strawberry juice concentrate, cranberry juice concentrate, cherry juice concentrate, citric acid, natural flavor, pectin, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate. No amounts listed. Nothing outstanding there, but all are concentrates do not say if they are from frozen concentrates or fresh but I will bet it's frozen! Not outstanding either. They advertise Xango as all natural pure juice and "No additives," but citric acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate are all additives?

While it has a lot of good things that will be good for you it isn't the end-all be-all that they claim it to be. Yes it is good for you; just as any other concentrated mixed fruit juice is good for you. You would do just as well and a lot less expensive to use your juicer and juice several fresh or frozen fruits or buy a bunch of concentrated frozen juices and mix them yourself without adding water and you will get the same benefits and take by spoonfuls as they suggest with Xango... If you are going to use this it would be a great idea to add 20 drops of liquid minerals to each glass of juice twice a day and then it will be a complete and total health drink.

Sure fruit is healthy but the claims these people make cannot be verified and should not be considered a medicine. Since our foods no longer contain the nutrients our body requires to stay healthy and the majority of people are not supplementing what is needed to be healthy, this concentration of juices will help with some of those requirements, just not all... I wouldn't pay the kind of money Xango/mangosteen sells for when I can make the equivalent for much less cost... Of course I already supplement daily and would not get the same results as a person who does not take daily supplements...

Their claims are:

Antioxidant protection against free radicals
Maintains immune system health
Promotes joint flexibility
Provides positive mental support
Reduces allergies
Reduces joint inflammation
Prevents cancer

Just about any vegetable or fruit can make the same claim - noted in my weekly food column - but don't usually... Eat a large bowl of mixed fresh fruit or mixed greens salad daily and get the same benefits! Better still take the correct nutrient supplements for maximum protection!

When I looked into the countries; Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and South Africa where the mangostana/mangosteen supposedly originates and grows in back yards and is supposed to be so healthy, I found nothing in their university agriculture extensions that says anything outstanding about the fruit except that the skin does contain some healthy properties, without elaborating what they are totally, but also says; extreme amounts of Tannic Acid, which can be dangerous to those allergic to tannic (people with hay fever and seasonal allergies are usually allergic to tannic), making it uncomfortable at best or dangerous at worst for that person. I don't think the skin would be very tasty by itself either. They also found two xanthones in the fruit skin, but that is also found in a myriad of fruits and vegetables, so nothing new or unusual there? It does have some other rather unusual properties such as; "Mangosteen yields a fatty oil, a concrete oil of mangosteen called kokum butter, used in soap-making. It is well adapted for pharmaceutical preparations and candle-making." It did not elaborate on the pharmaceutical preparations they refer to. Is it oils, lotions, potents? I don't know and they didn't say...

I did find some warning from the different agriculture university extensions to be aware of unfounded and unproven claims made from consuming the mangosteen fruit. I wouldn't put a lot of stake in those warnings had they come from a pharmaceutical industry but these are university agriculture extensions in those countries so I tend to give them a bit more credit for telling us truths..

I couldn't even find nutritional contents or amounts anywhere but I did find out there have been no Clinical Trials, which I don't find a problem as there are a lot of great natural medications/supplements without clinical trials as required by drug companies and FDA. But I also couldn't find any Observational Studies or Case Reports other than those on the MLM selling sites. Found No Traditional and Folk Use or historical data, no Adverse Effects & Toxicity Records, No methods of preparations, no folk methods, no formulas, all leading me to believe this is a trend that someone dreamed up simply to make money!

It's a great way of making money if you can convince people it's the best health product around. And there are a lot of gullible people as well as people who had bad nutrient intake prior to drinking this juice and will see benefits? Good yes, but great, NO!  They have a good MLM system in place for making money but as total health medication as they claim... It isn't... Yes it has some good antioxidants in it but it's missing some just as most foods do. Anytime something processed sits it loses nutrients whether in a bottle or open... Since Xango comes from concentrates you can bet it has lost a huge number of it's health properties before even getting into the bottles or pills and even more while sitting on shelves waiting to be consumed...

A really smart money maker dreamed up the whole unique Xango scheme to sell the fruit juice as a total health builder. While it is good it isn't a TOTAL ANYTHING except A TOTALLY OVERPRICED juice mixture that anyone can make at home, providing you have access to mangosteen fruit. Mango is a good substitute if you want to go that route, for a tenth of the price... I'll bet the perpetrator of this business is banking on selling it in the United States and European countries simply because the Mangosteen fruit cannot be purchased there, due to the stringent import restrictions those countries have put on the fruit itself... Great way of getting around the import restrictions is in selling this overpriced juice... The little country of Tonga even forbids sale of this product in their country, but doesn't say why?

You asked my opinion and there it is... Save your money! Take your 84 liquid Minerals and trace minerals, Meganutrient vitamins, eat a healthy diet and you will have the same results!
Lena
 

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