XANGO - Mangosteen Dietary Supplement

sherileeaz · Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 874

You are probably wondering why I am having a poll here on this topic, but I feel that so many of you are health conscience that you may know more about this revolutionary dietary supplement then I'm finding on the web.

Here is the link to their website:

http://www.mymangosteen.com/profit/

The brochures "they" give out claim that it will help so many ailments, yet on the bottle it doesn't have any nutritional value.

Supposedly the mangosteen fruit is an exotic fruit that has xanthones in it that help rid free radicals.

Now for the price, $35 a bottle!!! Crazy

They recommend 1 - 3 ozs per day.

I am very curious what everyone thinks about this.

Trishness · Posted: 1/16/2005, 9:20 pm Post subject:

Does this have any label on it at all? I'd question anything that has no nutritional label.

How can they market this?

Mr. Green

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mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

http://chetday.com/mangosteen.htm
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Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

My first thought was - 'Snake Oil'..

I tend to think that things that sound too good to be true, often are just that. It doesn't hurt to do some investigation, and the link that Mike posted seems to have some more factual information.

I liked a couple of quotes from that article...

A March 2004 press release from one seller proclaims: "Mangosteen is now on an unstoppable march to conquer the world" (Goss 2004). Put this way it sounds rather ominous…almost like a cross between Osama bin Laden and the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

"In my opinion, what we have here is simply an overpriced fruit drink."

thesuperstitions · Guest

A few years ago, my wife bought something similar to this and took it all the way to China to her father who was dying of cancer. The stuff she bought made wild claims about how users had been cured, etc. My wife was desperate, so she grasped for anything that could help her father. Of course, it didn't help, since it was only fruit juice.

I just find the marketing of this kind of product despicable since the marketers are preying upon the fears of people who are so desperate for a magic remedy. The tip-off is, as mentioned by others, that there is no hard evidence or statistical analysis relating to the effectiveness of the product. Those among us who are in dire situations will always grasp for straws and keep bottom-feeders who peddle this "snake-oil" in business. Sad, but the unfortunate truth.

BoyNhisDog · Posted: 1/17/2005, 6:11 am Post subject:

Tomatoes are a powerful oxidizer. Men who ate spaghetti sauce a couple times a week had IIRC 50% less prostate cancer in their group than men who didn't. The more frequently they had tomatoes or a sauce made from them, the lower the incidence was so have some ketchup on that hot dog Mr. Green

. This can go for any vitamins as such from a food source. Many of the vitamins in vitamin form were found to be worthless for oxidation in the real world body. Now I take a good multiple with trace minerals just in case (okay, I'll cop to a bit of grapeseed extract as well) but I bet my health on a healthy diet of lots of seafood and veggies and fruit.
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azhiker96 · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419

The "suppliment" industry is huge, powerful, and supported by millions of Americans. These things do not have to have any proved value. They know all the weasel words and use them in their advertising. There are howls of protest every time the government tries to contain this stuff. People complain that the government and the medical lobby are trying to keep them away from a cheap and natural cure.

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thesuperstitions · Guest

Glen- I agree that a good nutritional diet of a variety of healthy, vitamin-rich foods is essential to keeping the furnace burning at high efficiency, and indeed, some studies have shown that long-term ingestion of certain foods seems to help ward-off major diseases. It's the weasils that market the quick-fix-for-what-ails-you types that prey upon the weak that disgust me. While the fruit juice may actually have vitamins and minerals that are consistent with a healthy diet, it's the marketing practices that are the loathsome part of the equation.

BoyNhisDog · Posted: 1/17/2005, 6:58 am Post subject:

Agreed Ken, they prey on one's dreams.
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MikeInFHAZ · Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1401 Location: location location

I only know of one XANGO- its 1.5 oz Rum, 1/2 oz Triple Sec, Splash grapefruit.
how could a product or company steal a name that has been used for a cocktail for at least 20 years?
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JW · Posted: 1/19/2005, 7:49 pm Post subject: