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Mangosteen, A Small Fruit Bringing BIG Benefits

inventorspot.com — "Mangosteen Mania" has struck Japan! Mangosteen, a small purple fruit relatively unknown outside of East Asia owing to its perishable nature, is about to make a big impact as a health enhancer - your country may be next!

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  • allaboutdatiki, on 06/19/2008, -7/+19Time to head out to Whole Foods for a fruitless search ...
    • yuanzhoulu, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1they are cheap as hell in malaysia and singapore where i used to live. only problem is they are a pain in the ass to eat. if you're like me that is, and hate putting pit-containing things in your mouth.

      (i extract pits before eating anything ... oranges, cherries, olives, whatever ... and have various gadgets to help me do this quickly. i just don't like putting anything edible in my mouth and love the ability to stare at a plate full of pitless cherries/oranges/whatever and just scoop them in my mouth without hassle. mangosteens on the other hand are hard as hell to pit.)
      • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3people in malaysia and thailand have strange phobias/ quirks. my friend was over there chowing down on mangosteens and he was seeing a girl who had a fear of dogs with loose skin. thats really bizarre.
      • zionKing, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3"i just don't like putting anything edible in my mouth"

        You must be starving!
    • DaveMode, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1I was in Thailand last year and found a lot of people eating these. I decided to have a go and wasn't really impressed. The taste was OK but seemed like a lot of work for little reward.
  • pepelu12, on 06/19/2008, -3/+34Mangosteen juice is the most expensive juice I've ever seen in my life
    • LanceUppercut, on 06/19/2008, -9/+2Try Bull Semen. It is like 29,000 a barrel. Thank you Top Gear for that and "wedding vegetables".
    • jakecigar, on 06/19/2008, -4/+4and worth every penny (dollar)

      I've been drinking mangosteen & açai juice for months now!

      Bolthouse sells it under the brand Bom Dia at our local market!
      • dinostabOMG, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7If you don't want to die, make sure you drink your body's weight every day in acai, blueberry, mangostein, kabocha, wheat germ, goji berries, tahitian noni, etc.

        I don't know how civilization ever survived without them.
        • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4hahaha. thank you!
          im trying to grow mangosteen trees in south florida which is quite a challenge. it grows easily in puerto rico, hawaii, and other ultratropical climates. theres one guy who fruited it in north miami beach.
          the medicinal benefits are a joke but the fruit itself is very good.
          this article has so much misinformation though. its not due to their perishable nature, its due to the fact that they could destroy alot of US produce with a fruitfly that lives under the cap of the fruit.
          the fruits are starting to show up in various high population parts of the US though where they are irradiating the fruit and shipping them from thailand.
        • dinostabOMG, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1Cixel, what are you doing to make sure that you don't have a hand in drosophilic destruction, in that case?
      • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7if you drink enough of it you become jesus!
      • StaticThunder, on 06/20/2008, -2/+4A sucker born every minute.
      • RationalXubrnce, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3 Acai juice works as claimed. I was skeptical but I can feel what it does without doubt. I'm going to try mangosteen.
    • vegask, on 06/19/2008, -2/+16Mangosteen franchise == Pryamid scheme.
    • humperdeath, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12Spam, spam, spam spam, spam spam, spam spam, lovely spam.....wonderful spam.....SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAAAAAM!
      Bloody vikings.
    • whyufail, on 06/20/2008, -0/+11My roommate used to sell that *****. $70 fruit juice in a bottle. He ended up getting hosed of course because it was a huge pyramid scheme and still has 4 boxes (each containing 4 bottles of the stuff, roughly $200 a box) sitting in his room that they sent him even after he tried to cancel the program.
    • TxDr, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3My mother-in-law peddles that stuff. She tried convincing me that doctors leave their practices to help her sell this cancer-fighting miracle juice. Needless to say, she is bat-***** insane.
    • captainchris, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I too have an acquaintance who got sucked into this scheme. While I believe there are healthy ingredients in these juices, the pyramid schemes are all overpriced overhyped *****.

      I've had this imported thai mangosteen juice a few times before that comes in a typical can without wacky 'SUPER HEALTHY' labels all over it and is well priced, and i must say it is sooo delicious.
  • angusm, on 06/19/2008, -2/+51Mangosteens are delicious, although perhaps too sweet for some people's tastes. Queen Victoria is said to have offered a knighthood for anyone who worked out a way to transport them from India to Britain without the fruit spoiling.

    There doesn't seem to be much evidence to support the claims made for unique health-giving properties, but that hasn't stopped a company called Xango from making mangosteen juice the basis of a complicated MLM scheme. As usual, this generates large amounts of spam, as the make-money-fast weenies who've signed for the program scramble to try to profit from their overpriced fruit juice. Much as I like mangosteens, I'm getting very very tired of Xango spam.
    • hornback, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15Funnily enough, the main guy LOWTAX from somethingawful did exactly that and there was a pretty big controversy about it.
    • Tr33fiddy, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8lol, the guy who started Xango wanted to buy a domain name of mine a few years back. He expected me to give it to him for free.

      Suffice to say my request for 25,000GBP in return garnered no response.
      • diizy, on 06/19/2008, -1/+3Haha yeah, i was about to bring up the whole MLM and exotic fruits that make for expensive juices debate. Mangosteens should only be consumed in fruit form where the taste is unlike most others.
    • bluerei, on 06/20/2008, -3/+2I work for XanGo doing all our corporate websites, this article wasn't from us.
      • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7you sir are the snake oil salesman of the 21st century.
        i find it hilarious how most of the 'mangosteen juice'' you use in the product is extracted from the hardened rind which is rich in tannins and all the rest is just cheap juice from other fruits.
        antioxidents my ass. a useless buzzword.
        • Ellipsys, on 06/20/2008, -3/+1Proof? Not saying you're wrong, but is there another Mangosteen juice source that is better? I /think/ lakewood organics makes a not from concentrate, pure mangosteen juice. Never had it, but I know their pineapple juice is first rate.
        • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3ellipsys, my hobby is exotic fruit. i collect exotic fruit trees from all over the world. i'm on mailinglists with various farmers of mangosteens, durian, lychee etc. we joke about this stuff alot. my goal is to eventually have my own exotic fruit farm.
          ive only found one decent product at an asian food store with a high concentration of real mangosteen fruit juice and this is it
          http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2058/2275106829_228 ...
        • RationalXubrnce, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2 The irony of your post is that the snake oil concoctions actually worked. It was normally cocaine and opium based drinks. They really did give you energy or cure your pain. Funny how today we use that term to mean something that doesn't work at all.
        • Ellipsys, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Cixel - Sorry, your pic seems not to be available, but I'm interested in which brand you've found to be superior. Oh, and if you find a way to reliably grow fresh durian on the east coast, I'll be showing up at your orchard.
        • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1reposted the pic
          http://flickr.com/photos/94556645@N00/2275106829/i ...
        • bluerei, on 06/20/2008, -2/+0Snake oil salesman? I don't make the stuff, I don't sell it, I don't do the marketing or any of that stuff, I just update the websites so I can get paid and spend it on games and computer upgrades. Why should you direct any of those attacks on me? You think I care or that I will go tell the executives or something? You're retarded.
    • whyufail, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Yeeep. Thats the program my roommate (he's dumb and falls for these lovely schemes) tried to do. Still has four boxes (four bottles each) of the lovely $70 fruit juice laying around that they sent him after he tried to cancel. I was less than shocked at this turn of events.
    • jacastillo, on 06/20/2008, -2/+1I knew there was going to be Xango bashing. Let me say that I am NOT a member of the Xango company. Not because I don't think the product is great, it's just that I am a top marketer in a different company. I do however purchase mangosteen for it's health benefits. I was first introduced to mangosteen by a really good friend of mine. (He is also not in any business, he is a retired engineer). The first thing I did was search www.pubmed.com for "mangosteen" and "xanthone" (medical term for the benefit the mangosteen offers.)

      What I found was shocking. This product was found to be a good source of anti-cancer compounds. See, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18464091?ordina ...

      This also came up, "Antioxidant xanthones from the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana (Mangosteen)." Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16536578?ordina ...

      It also helped to detoxify the body, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18399471?ordina ...

      It didn't stop there. How about this article, "Berry fruits: compositional elements, biochemical activities, and the impact of their intake on human health, performance, and disease." Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18211023?ordina ...

      So I don't know why you wrote, "There doesn't seem to be much evidence to support the claims made for unique health-giving properties". It appears to me that you have NOT looked for any evidence. It's all out there, open your eyes..
  • JerryCasanova, on 06/19/2008, -13/+6888
  • svensko, on 06/19/2008, -3/+34Didn't "Lowtax" Kayaka or whatever try to advertise this on the Something Awful forums as something that tasted great and then he was exposed as being funded for saying such things? (and that the juice tasted terrible?)
    • Papajohn56, on 06/19/2008, -2/+9DON'T ***** CLICK MY LINKS, DON'T ***** BUY MY JUICE, DON'T SHOVE DRINKS UP MY ASS
    • Hangly, on 06/20/2008, -3/+8Here's a poem I composed for the occasion.

      MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! DONT CLICK MY LINKS!
      SA is way cooler than anyone thinks!
      Stealling your dollars with bans and probation.
      How else to rule over the great goonland nation?

      MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! COME KISS MY ASS!
      All the good posters are coming to SASS.
      Your ineptitude brings all the boys to our yard
      All you will have left are the myspace retards.

      MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! PANTS-***** FAGS!
      SA only makes unintentional gags.
      Your users are virginal fat goony losers
      Galactica fanboys and substance abusers.

      MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! SRSLY, ***** YOU!
      You scamtastic 'steen drinking nappy-haired Jew.
      I don't understand, but whatev' makes you happy.
      Dear sir, your website truly is something crappy.
  • jbarna, on 06/19/2008, -1/+25Lowtax is behind this, I have no doubt about that.
  • EskNerd, on 06/19/2008, -2/+19I immediately pictured a mango with neckbolts. Or possibly a mango wearing a yarmulka.
  • SirStu, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9"relatively unknown"

    They sell them in Tesco.
    • akrondude, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1the juice, or the fruit? because the fruit is illegal in the U.S.
  • moghua, on 06/19/2008, -2/+20If it sounds like scam, is linked to a site called "inventorsite", and is pushed as a cure for cancer, it probably is a scam.
    • romistrub, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2MANGOSTEEN IS A CURE FOR CANCER! A CURE FOR CANCER!

      MANGOSTEEN WILL CURE YOUR CANCER!
  • vcleniuk, on 06/19/2008, -3/+6Mangostein!!!.... Fire BAD.
  • gametavern, on 06/19/2008, -3/+14Jesus, is this a Xango ad? Put Xango right next to stem cells for curing everything ever to afflict you.
    • telepheedian, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I saw that too, buried it as spam. BTW, in Japan, there are rumors that Xango makes you infertile, its actually been quite a failure over there.
  • Fu510n, on 06/19/2008, -2/+33Oh look.....a pyramid scheme!
  • Railoc, on 06/19/2008, -2/+38Mangosteen juice is nothing but a pyramid scheme device, and this is just an ad shilling it, not a legitimate news article. This shouldn't be on Digg unless it's an expose.
  • Fludd777, on 06/19/2008, -6/+1Snapples peach mangosteen juice is amazing.

    Goji punch is better though.
    • Bodhinature, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Snapple pumps so much high fructose corn syrup in their drinks its makes the drink worthless.
  • benempt, on 06/19/2008, -6/+3I had a bunch of these while in China this past May -- they're amazing. I tried to explain them to co-workers but no one really got it, even after seeing the pics.
  • briankoenig03, on 06/19/2008, -2/+32Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam. Multi-Level Marketing scams are near the top of my "Annoying" list.

    Google "mangosteen pyramid scheme"
  • longlukey, on 06/19/2008, -1/+16i come from a family of filipinos and theyve been drinking this stuff forever.... claiming it cured AIDS. I told my aunt "but you don't have AIDS." "Exactly," was her reply.
    • NolanRey, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5kind of like how birthdays are good for your health... the more you have; the longer you live.
      • dougmc, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1But also, the more you have, the fewer you're likely to have in the future ...

        But it beats the alternative, eh?
  • YogiWanKenobi, on 06/19/2008, -3/+27MLM spam detected.

    The MLM is the most unscrupulous business model yet conceived (other than armed robbery). Take Monavie for example. The acai is called the poor man's fruit in Brazil, where you can get a gallon of the freshly squeezed juice for less than 50 cents US. Monavie retails for over $45 for a 750ml bottle, which works out to $225/gallon. That works out to over a 4,000% markup. It's not even pure acai--they dilute it with other cheap juices, such as white grape. There is some additional processing done by the Monavie folks, such as ethylene gassing to increase the antioxidant count, but still a vast majority of the retail price ends up going to pyramid leaches. Unfortunately MLMs--like lotteries--are a tax on people who don't understand math.

    That said, I'm sure the fruit has numerous benefits. It's no magic bullet. Your best bet is probably to include a variety of antioxidant-rich foods in your diet.
    • bipolarruledout, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Try adding goji berries to your diet or the other old standbys such as blueberries. It's not exactly news that fruits and plant antioxidants are good for your health.
  • bitweever, on 06/19/2008, -1/+231. Find rare exotic fruit.
    2. Give it wild health claims.
    3. Profit!!!
    • bigspooon, on 06/19/2008, -9/+1incorrect meme input.
      result: FAIL.
    • telepheedian, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7Nope, he just found that magic step 2.
  • SuperMan0505, on 06/19/2008, -4/+8So does this drink cure cancer while making me ***** my pants just like Lowtax would want?

    DON'T CLICK MY LINKS
    DON'T GO INTO MY PYRAMID SCHEMES
    DON'T BUY IT!
  • bigspooon, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2Saw this being sold at the Costco is West Los Angeles in the vitamins section.

    The drink itself looked like a super dark and thick cranberry juice. I was afraid to try it. Mangosteen...in my mind i went straight to Mango Steed...no thanks!
    • rockefeller2, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Weird, cause the dark purple part is the rind, you don't eat it. That drink shouldn't have been dark purple. You eat the white flesh on the inside (but you gotta spit the seeds out).
  • z3021017, on 06/19/2008, -3/+4My favourite fruit to eat of all time.
    The times I went back to Malaysia I would sit for an hour eating a whole bag of these. So tastylicious.
    • thecyko1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Purple hands for a day is a small price to pay.
    • megapeg, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Agreed - it's pretty much the most delicious fruit I've ever tasted.
  • fredmv, on 06/19/2008, -0/+15The problem with a lot of these "miracle" fruits (mangosteen, goji, et al.) is that their value is based on the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) scale which is unreliable and nearly meaningless. Like many things, what pans out in vitro does not always ring true in vivo. So, whatever kind of `benefits' the fruit confers (from presumably trace amounts of antioxidant compounds--OPCs, Vit C., etc.) is undermined by the ridiculous sugar content. A real miracle beverage is green tea, which is is not only dirt-cheap, but the active polyphenol, EGCG, has a lot of real research proving it to be a viable health adjunct, and furthermore positive for body composition as well [1: Physiol Behav. 2008 Feb 27;93(3):486-91.].
    • bipolarruledout, on 06/20/2008, -1/+0Yes but simply BECAUSE research is limited on most antioxidants it's best to get them from as many sources as possible. Not that anyone should jump on this bandwagon but more people should be eating a more healthful diet and getting more antioxidants is the easiest thing to do. Surely you can give fruits are pass for their sugar content. At least it's not refined, you could be doing a lot worse.
  • DarthDiabetes, on 06/19/2008, -3/+1I wonder why they haven't approached LIMOZEEN! as their celebrity endorser...
    • telepheedian, on 06/19/2008, -1/+1Buy our juice to help us feed the childrens.
  • bucketofeels, on 06/19/2008, -6/+2I take daily multivitamins, as well as fish oil and gingko biloba and a shot of mangosteen

    I pretty much don't get sick these days!
    • Papajohn56, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3lol
    • bipolarruledout, on 06/20/2008, -2/+0I changed my diet and lifestyle only slightly and now I can't really remember the last time I was sick. But I will say that being aware of the vectors and avoiding them is a must... that and hand washing. Wash your damn hands people... ALL THE TIME....
  • SaladCactusKing, on 06/19/2008, -2/+6Riffleraffle thread.
  • Acuraracer32tl, on 06/19/2008, -2/+2Mangosteen, the magical fruit. The more you eat the more you....
  • JeremyK684, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11That juice is over $37 per bottle.. screw it..
  • maanwi, on 06/19/2008, -3/+3That "article" on mangosteen was either written by a homophobe or, at least, someone not very comfortable with their feminine side.
  • jhunt, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12my scamdar is going off
    • bipolarruledout, on 06/20/2008, -1/+0There is a differance between scam and just plain rip off.
  • wellyuk, on 06/19/2008, -1/+1Was this fruit named after that guitarist? Or the other way round?
    • Papajohn56, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Yngwie Malmsteen not Yngwie Mangosteen you idiot
    • JennyHanivers, on 06/25/2008, -0/+0Not Yngwie. I'm pretty sure he meant Bruce Mangosteen and the E Street Band.
  • Tyrghast, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6Bruce Springsteen has a fruit named after him?
    • loudly, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0Actually, it's named after Yngwie Mangosteen
  • soupeh, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10My mother is developing early signs of arthritis, and has been buying this overpriced crap from a friend for several years. I have been overtly critical of both the supposed health benefits and the MLM system by which it's sold, basically calling her out for joining a type of 'cult'.

    She has even tried to get me involved, parroting the lines and information that were presumably said to her in the first place to sell the stuff.

    I didnt know the XanGo business was this big, or that there was info out there that agreed with me. I'm going to compile some of this stuff and send it to her.
    • RationalXubrnce, on 06/20/2008, -4/+1 Have you tried it? I have not but I have tried monavie and while I'm sure it doesn't cure ***** it does give you energy and make you feel naturally well. I didn't believe it would but I found myself waking up earlier after drinking it for two days.

      Try Tropicanas Acai juice, it's weaker but it's only like 5 bucks and it's delicious.
      • chaosium, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6"I have tried monavie and while I'm sure it doesn't cure ***** it does give you energy and make you feel naturally well."

        Plaaaaceeeeebooooooo.
        • RationalXubrnce, on 06/20/2008, -4/+1 I used drugs for years recreationally and never fell for a placebo effect, at least not for more than a minute or two.

          I guarantee you never tried it, you're just sure it's garbage because all of the other people who never tried it agree with you. From what I can gather not one person speaking against it in this thread has tried it.

          Go try it, or admit you don't really know what you're talking about, you're just guessing.
        • StaticThunder, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Actually, I've read the scientific studies because I briefly dated someone who fell for this MLM bologna. Its garbage. Overpriced fruit juice. It might have some mild analgesic and antioxidant effects, but so does pomegranite juice for 1/5th the price.

          People making medical claims about mangosteens have been sued successfully in several places around the world.

          So, tell me that the mice and tissue cultures were lying.
        • chaosium, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2"I used drugs for years recreationally and never fell for a placebo effect, at least not for more than a minute or two."

          The placebo effect is far more than someone selling you oregano.
      • soupeh, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Textbook anecdotal evidence, followed by a push for me to some other product...

        Look mate, I've tried this stuff, it tasted good, I'm sure its even quite good for you. So are a lot of fruit juices. So is green tea. Difference is this stuff is $35 a bottle. Placebo is a large part of its allure, aided by the large price tag that convinces many people that it is somehow more effective.

        My beef with Xango is that they push the limit of acceptible claims as to it's health benefits, based largely on anecdotal and dubious clinical evidence. It's modern day snake oil pushed by, in my opinion, a reprehensible modern day marketing scheme.
  • Papajohn56, on 06/20/2008, -1/+13DIGG FRAUD
  • cynic573, on 06/19/2008, -1/+1...isn't that a Lychee?
  • cathpah, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3fuuuuuuuuuuck yeah. i love me some mangosteen. I spent all of 2007 travelling through South and Southeast Asia and ate these damn things as often as i can. I even found a wooden mangosteen in indonesia and brought it home as a symbol of my love for that fruit.
  • Semprini, on 06/20/2008, -2/+5Mangosteens are nice.

    But Rambutans and Durians are better.

    Love that stinky durian!
    • cathpah, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4haha....durian is good, but i think it's hilarious that you can't ride in taxis or public transportation in places like singapore when eating durian.
    • rockefeller2, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I've tried that before, and it seems kind of bland....how's the saying go? "Smells like hell, but taste like heaven."
    • RationalXubrnce, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2 I tried to like Durian but I hated it.
  • plumpchump, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7mail order bride, half breed child, mangosteen mangosteen mangosteen! 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555
  • xbillybobx, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3The story may be spam, but there's no denying mangosteens are delicious.
  • sg7791, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Oh, like Snozzberries. Yeah.
  • madk, on 06/20/2008, -1/+3It looks like the pomegranates 10 minutes are up. Step aside!
    • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2dude theyre both tasty
      • madk, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1oh I know. Pomegranates have been a staple in my family since forever.
  • edebolt, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3just a clarification here from Thailand. The Mangosteen juice product is not made from the edible sweet interior part of the fruit. Eating the tasty insides of the MS is not the health benefits of the juice made from the skin part of the MS.
    • CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1yeah and the hard rind of the mangosteen is high in tannins and tastes like ass. the white fleshy part inside is what everyone wants.
      easy to eat, you just put your hands on the top and bottom of the fruit and pop the shell and then pull it apart.
    • bugaloobob, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Then again grape seed extract and skin is found in huge quantities as you try to get the flesh from both of them.
      There's no justification for the price they're asking except that it is an MLM scam.
    • rajulkabir, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Additional clarification here from Malaysia. I just throw the whole fruits in the blender (after removing the seeds and stem). Pretty good that way (the flesh on its own is too sweet for my taste).

      Enough to make 1 litre of juice costs me about $1 when they're in season, so I am impressed that these people are able to sell it for $37. I ought to get in on that action.

      Maybe durian will be the next exotic fruit craze in the west?
  • Ellipsys, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Most of these "super-fruits" (Mangosteen, Goji, Acai) ARE good for you and have some unique compounds (So does pineapple, by the way), but don't spend your money buying expensive bottles of the stuff for people with more money than sense. There are the MLM schemes, but some of these same fruit juices are bottled by organic certified companies, who are less likely to add additional sugar or ethylene gas, as mentioned above. It may be hard to do, but find a reliable company that doesn't add additional crap to their juices, use concentrates, or dilute their product with cheap apple/grape juice.
  • Triplicate, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12Didn't Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka try to scam a bunch of people into buying mangosteen a few months ago? If I remember correctly his wife ended up miscarrying because she drank some of the juice while she was pregnant.
  • lothar250, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5"visiting Japan and it was nothing to write home about; in fact it was a disappointment." - LIAR, he's never been to Japan
  • Alucard010, on 06/20/2008, -0/+10I have some friends who work in the XanGo call center and they all say XanGo is a scam, enjoy your $25 bottle of fruit juice.
    • whyufail, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2$25? ha! My roommate was buying this crap at like $50 a bottle and had to try and sell it for $70. He was not very bright.
  • cdtoad, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4MLM dog sheet. I see the schemers have glommed together and all dugg this CRAP. BURY'd for being shesist
  • sb76117, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3i guy i used to work with referred to selling mangosteen juice as is "second business" its quite a racket they got going...
  • sq2shooter, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Mangosteen is a scam. Always has been. And yes your friend who is trying to sell it to you, is out a lot of money with his MLM company and is looking to make it back with your gullibility.
  • Sleepytime, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7scam, lol
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