XanGo

XanGo, LLC is a privately owned international company, based in Utah, USA. It is the first company that manufactures a fruit drink made from the mangosteen fruit and sells. The company name ( Fima ) is an invented name and is derived from xanthone and mangosteen.

Products

" XanGo Juice " is the fruit juice concentrate from the mangosteen fruit ( with the shell, which are included 40 of 43 xanthones ) is produced, which grows in Southeast Asia. The company advertises that a concentrated rush of xanthones were included in the juice through a special recipe. Xanthones are to have any effect on health, including as a scavenger against free radicals.

Production and sales

The mangosteen fruit is harvested in their origin countries and brought to the U.S., where the actual production and bottling facility is. There the juice through direct sales sold. Since mid-2007, the product is also to Canada, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, Austria, Holland (as Nov. 2009 30 countries Worldwide) exported.

The products are marketed in multi -level marketing (also called network marketing ).

Others

Since 2006 Xangoo LLC. Sponsor of Real Salt Lake, an American football team.

XANGO supports several tools and Förderungsproojekte with 7 % of the profit of the company. The following partnerships are currently: SOS Children's Village, Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, The Tuloy Foundation, Operation Smile, Best Buddies, National McGruff House Network, National Ability Center (NAC ), Drew Brees Dream Foundation, Children 's Organ Transplant Association ( COTA ), Steve Young Forever Young Foundation, AmeriCares, Children Charity Association, vitamin Angels, University of Utah Global Health Alliance.

Criticism

The juice is criticized for its health effects. The company recruited among others, the cancer healing effect, by which is meant that a regular consumption of the juice decrease the likelihood of an outbreak of cancer. The company refers inter alia to publications of in vitro studies of the mangosteen fruit ( English: Mangosteen ), for example, published in the American online portal of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, as well as on one published in Aug. 2009 double-blind study on the mangosteen fruit. The American Cancer Society points out that there has been until 2008 no scientific studies with patients, but only in - vitro laboratory testing, including acne - causing bacteria, as well as a study on rats.

However, in a study published in August 2009, placebo - controlled double-blind study, the effect of mangosteen was investigated in the form of a liquid nutritional supplement on human immune function. With the result that the inclusion of a mangosteen product containing significantly caused a significantly improved immunological defense reaction of the subjects.

Since the company can rely on no scientific studies to their own product, the effect or the efficiency of the drink XanGo itself yet is scientifically controversial. According to the Index of XanGo bottle - - sodium benzoate ( E211 ) as a preservative, for example.