A few days ago, I was at the market and overheard someone say “What are these”? I looked and there was a pile of cute little mangosteens. I purchased a couple for Aussie $1.50 each. I asked where they came from and they said they’d been imported from Thailand. Here’s a picture of both of them.

The lady who sold them to me said to cut the mangosteen in half through the center. Silly me! I cut it all the way through, and a bright red juice started pouring out of the fruit. I realized I wasn’t supposed to cut right through. Anyway, at least you can see all the seeds and the pulp of the fruit in this picture.

I cut the second mangosteen properly by stopping the knife when I got to the soft part. One half of the mangosteen just fell off cleanly, and it looks more like all the other pictures of mangosteen.

I took the white part out carefully, and it consisted of tiny little segments (similar to the segments that an orange has). I really can’t tell you what it tasted like though! It was entirely different to any other fruit I had ever tasted.

A delicious taste! I tasted some of the pericarp (the red part you can see in the hollow section) and it wasn’t nice at all. I’m glad that Vemma has included the pericarp in their Vemma mangosteen juice, and camouflaged the taste.

I took a photo of the mangosteen next to a rather large passionfruit, to show you the relative size. This passionfruit is a bit bigger than the average passionfruit.

Xanthones cause the mangosteen fruit’s antioxidants to be many times stronger than those of fruit and vegetables, and different mangosteen juices contain different amounts of xanthones. So, to get full benefit of a particular type of mangosteen juice, it’s best to take one that has a greater amount of xanthones.

To see the results from the latest testing of xanthone content and to get more information about the mangosteen fruit, go here: Testing of Xanthone Content in Vemma Mangosteen juice products.

There are natural chemical substances within the mangosteen called xanthones, which are very powerful antioxidants. Xanthones have been studied for their medicinal potential and demonstrate a number of pharmaceutical properties. Xanthones are more powerful antioxidants than vitamins are. The mangosteen fruit contains a whole family of xanthones ( 40 of them ).

The xanthones have been the subject of intense research. They are found in a select number of rain forest plants, but are more abundant in the pericarp (rind) of the mangosteen.

According to professional journals such as “Free Radical Research” and “Journal of Pharmacology”, and the “Indian Journal of Experimental Biology”, these xanthones have a effect of cardiovascular health, are naturally antibiotic, anti viral and anti-inflammatory.

More can be read here about mangosteen and Vemma mangosteen juice supplements.

Imagine saving hundreds of dollars on the food bill necessary to buy all those ingredients to fortify your diet. And, imagine your family easily getting the nutrients they could be lacking from the Vemma Liquid formula.

These are the Five Nutrients contained in the Vemma Nutrition Program:

1. Mangosteen

Mangosteen is very popular for its use with many beneficial properties, because of some very special compounds hidden inside its juicy layers of deep rich-red pericarp.* Xanthones are a particular class of plant nutrients that possess very potent antioxidants, and the Mangosteen Fruit supplies some of the highest amounts of xanthones found in nature*.

2. Liquid Antioxidant Vitamins

The Vemma Nutritional Product is a great tasting liquid vitamin supplement with significant doses of all 12 full-spectrum essential Vemma Vitamins

3. Aloe Vera

has been recognized for centuries because of its amazing healing properties.*

4. Green Tea Heart-Healthy Super Antioxidant

Green Tea is a rich source of important vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and polyphenols.*

5. Nature’s Life Force Essential Minerals

Our bodies cannot survive without nature’s fundamental minerals. An abundant supply of these critical micronutrients are necessary in every cell of our bodies before normal function can take place.*

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.