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“What is the mangosteen and what is all the excitement about?” There are some very important things that you, your family and your friends should know about this fascinating fruit.

XanGo Juice is a great tasting drink with naturally occurring nutrients. A healthy diet low in saturated and trans fats may reduce the risk of heart disease. XanGo Juice is free of saturated and trans fats. Xanthones (or catechins, flavonoids, proanthocyanidins) are a factor in the maintenance of good health and are a factor in normal growth and development.

XanGo L.L.C. launched XanGo Juice at the end of 2002 that the mangosteen fruit began to achieve worldwide recognition and acceptance in western markets.

Native people throughout Southeast Asia have historically used the fruit for its natural healing properties. It was when Europeans explored Southeast Asia that folklore related to the mangosteen fruit first spread to western culture.

In Asia, the mangosteen is known as “The Queen of Fruits”. The actual scientific name for it is Garcinia Mangostana but is usually called by its common name – mangosteen. What makes the mangosteen so remarkable is that it naturally contains many powerful phytonutrients. The most talked about nutrients are called Xanthones, and the mangosteen alone contains an incredible 43 Xanthones. More will be said about these “super-antioxidants” in tomorrow’s email.

About the size of a tangerine, the mangosteen has a smooth, dark purple rind, encasing a delicious snow-white fruit. Delicious? Yes! A healthful food that actually tastes good is a discovery to say the least, but it’s what science has to say about the mangosteen that’s turning so many heads. Those who haven’t yet heard about the mangosteen soon will. Consider yourself lucky to be a part of those who are finding out about it early on.If it’s this good, why doesn’t everyone know about it?

Chances are you probably have only heard a little about the mangosteen… or possibly nothing at all. It’s interesting that something like the mangosteen – with so many potential benefits – has remained in relative obscurity.

Although the mangosteen remains largely unknown in parts of the world, it has been utilized in Southeast Asia for many centuries. It has been transplanted into Central and South America, India, Southern China and the Caribbean. It has widespread use in all these countries.

If you look up the history of the mangosteen, you can learn all sorts of interesting things about its many traditional uses.

More recently, university scientists around the globe became curious about these traditional uses and began doing experiments and scientific studies on mangosteen and its active Xanthones. Subsequently, hundreds of scientific studies have been published and more studies are ongoing.

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