MonaVie like product at Sam's Club
(for less than half the price)
Sam's club is now carrying a MonaVie like product called "Fut A Vie" with a price of $17.24 per bottle in contrast to $39 for MonaVie's.  The Sam's Club product has an Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score of 3500 per oz. versus 1027 per gram  for MonaVie.   I don't know if the Sam's Club product is using the correct units since the scientific community usually uses the metric system, i.e. grams.   The ORAC score is a test tube analysis that measures the antioxidant levels of food and other chemical substances. If a food has a high ORAC score, then it means the food is high in antioxidants. The antioxidant’s strength is its ability to eliminate oxygen free radicals.

Sam's also sells a product that competes with another MLM, Xango.  It is interesting to see how traditional retailers can undercut the MLM's by over 50% for similar products.   Here is an interesting page on "The Preeminence of Value" from the Gimes and Reese MLM law website about the fine line between pyramid schemes and MLMs.

Frutavie_label.jpg (10948 bytes)Frut A Vie ingredients:

Proprietary blend of Acai (Freeze Dried Powder & Puree), Grape Juice, Pear Juice, Cherry Juice, Pomegranate Juice, Goji Juice (Wolfberry), Apple Juice, Cranberry Juice, Blueberry Juice, Acerola, Grape Skin Extract, Bannana, & 1140mg of Mangosteen Peel Extract. (incomplete)

 

 

mona-vie.jpg (5989 bytes)MonaVie Active ingredients:

Proprietary blend of acai (freeze dried powder and puree); Fruit juice from concentrate (white grape, nashi pear, acerola, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, passion fruit, apricot, prune, kiwi, blueberry, wolfberry [goji], pomegranate, and lychee, camu camu); fruit purees (pear, banana, bilberry);d-glucosamine hydrochloride, esterified fatty acids, natural flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate.