The 19 Fruits
In addition to the Acai Berry, there are 18 other fruits blended together to create MonaVie.
With this blend of 19 fruits, including acai, MonaVie is a unique and delicious nutritional beverage. The acai berry is the foundation of the MonaVie blend, but with literally thousands of phytonutrients and antioxidants found in nature's fresh fruits, MonaVie didn't want to focus on just one fruit at the expense of others.
This led to MonaVie's selection of 18 additional fruits, each selected for its unique, beneficial properties and ability to contribute a variety of phytonutrients and antioxidants to MonaVie's premier nutritional beverage. Together, the synergistic effect of the fruits in the MonaVie blend reaches far beyond what any single fruit could accomplish.
Select a link below for more information about each of the forgotten fruits.
The Acai Berry
MonaVie's ™ Crown Jewel
With loads of antioxidants, the Brazilian Acai berry (AH-sci-EE) is considered to have the best nutritional value of any fruit in the world.
The reported health benefits are simply amazing. With the symmetry of a grape and the size of a giant blueberry, the Acai fruit tastes a bit like wild raspberry with a hint of grape. Most people have trouble putting their finger on the taste because it's so different.
The Acai Berry is truly a wonderful plant. Acai Berries grow on an Amazon Heart of Palm Tree and have been prized for hundreds of years by Brazilian natives for its high nutritional content. Acai Berries are high in essential fatty acids & omegas -- 60% Oleic (omega 9) - a monounsaturated essential fatty acid. 12% Linoleic (omega 6) - a polyunsaturated essential fatty acid. Acai also contains many valuable Phytosterols. Sterols are compounds of plant cell membranes which provide numerous benefits to the human body.
The Acai Berry is a dense source of a particular class of flavonoids called anthocyanins. Acai Berry's ORAC value (a measure of its antioxidant properties), is higher than any other edible berry on the planet. The Acai Berry is also an excellent source of dietary fiber!
The Acai Palm is a tall slender South American (concentrated in Brazil, Guyana, Suriname) palm grown for its fruit as well as for the "cabbage" (the cluster of new leaves more commonly called the "heart of palm"). It prefers swampy areas, and grows quickly. The fronds were (and still are) used for thatching and weaving. Each Acai palm tree produces small deep purple, almost black, fruit (berries) in groups of 3-8 per bunch. The fruit is edible, and its pulp is used in wines, liqueurs, as flavoring, as colorant, and on its own as a juice.
Current (Western) Use - Acai is currently being tested not only for its health properties, but also as a dyeing or contrasting agent in the human body in preparation for MRI scans of the gastrointestinal tract.
* Acerola
* Apricot
* Aronia
* Banana
* Bilberry
* Kiwi
* Lychee
* Pear
* Prune
Title: The Acai Berry - No. 1 on Oprah Winfrey Site's Top Ten
Date: 1/20/2005
The Acai Berry
No.1 on Oprah Winfrey Site's Top Ten
List of 'Superfoods' - Main Ingredient of New MonaVie Juice
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - On Saturday, January 8, 2005, Monarch Health Sciences introduced MonaVie, a potent fruit juice blend of 19 fruits with its main ingredient the Amazon's Acai berry, named first on the world's top ten list of 'superfoods'by Dr. Nicholas Perricone on the Oprah Winfrey show. The official MonaVie launch took place in Salt Lake City with the company posting record sales in the following week. In addition to domestic sales including Hawaii and Alaska, the company is now shipping to Singapore, Australia, Canada, and Puerto Rico, with plans to open more Southeast Asia markets in the near future.
MonaVie has received high interest primarily based on the Acai berry only recently discovered by the Brazilian elite and North Americans, and consumed primarily as a frozen “slush'. The Acai (pronounced ah-sah-ee) berry has gained worldwide attention particularly in the past year when it was featured by Dr. Nicholas Perricone in his book, The Perricone Promise recommended by Oprah Winfrey which lists the Acai as the world's number one “superfood for age-defying beauty.' The London Times reports,' açaí is the fruit of an Amazonian palm tree with the nutritional content that makes other fruits blush with inadequacy.' Vogue magazine calls it “the next big workout cocktail', and NBC Today reported, “the anomabi Indians have believed for centuries that the Acai holds unique power…and is believed to help women after birth and to give anyone who drinks it a burst of energy.'
The Acai berry may be the most potent of all “forgotten fruits'-- those raw, whole fruits that are little known or consumed. The scientific facts about the Acai berry are impressive by any standards:
- a protein profile similar to an egg
- a fatty acid profile similar to olive oil
- contains the leading source of anthocyanins--often reported as 30 times that of the protective potential of red wine. One of the many attributes of anthocyanins is its anti-inflammatory qualities
- high in fiber
- low glycemic index
- more than 16 phytonutrients and anti-oxidants.
- copious amount of trace minerals (Co, Cr, Cu, Mo...) and macrominerals (Ca, Fe)
- generous amount of vitamins including vitamin E
- excellent source of plant sterols, particularly Beta-Sitosterol which is associated with cholesterol lowering capabilities.
The MonaVie product consists of the Acai berry as the headline ingredient, with 18 other all-star fruits uncommonly rich with nature's benefits as identified by Monarch Health Sciences' research team: pomegranate, bilberry, passion fruit, wolfberry, blueberry, kiwi, cranberry, apricot, prune, nashi, aronia, pear, acerola, banana, camu camu, lychee fruit, and dark-and white pigment grapes. These fruits were added to create the right balance of health-building phytonutrients contained in the entire color spectrum. This addition of variety adds to, complements and synergistically enhances the product's potential. To best capture all the rich nutrients, the fruits were pureed in their entirety—flesh, skin, and seed.
MonaVie is available to consumers through independent distributors # # #
References:
The Times, UK, September 20, 2003, “Acai: Main Squeeze in Brazil'
Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2003, “Acai Replaces Wheatgrass in Blenders at Juice Bars'
The Washington Post, August 11, 2004, Page F03
Vogue, June 2003 issue
NBC Today feature: http://www.monavie.com/acai
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