In recent years, there has been so much hype about the goodness of mangosteen juice. When I was shopping for groceries the other day, I saw Marigold’s Peel Fresh new product – the sugar free mangosteen juice and I bought a bottle to try .  It is a mixture of mangosteen juice, apple juice and grape juice.  

So how did it taste? Nothing like the pure mangosteen juice. It tastes a lot like kids’ meds syrup. I feel the taste of the grape juice and apple juice have overshadowed the taste of the mangosteen juice. I don’t think there will be a second time purchase of this brand of mangosteen juice for me. The next time, I’ll get the real thing, the pure mangosteen juice from those direct selling companies.

Anyway, I’ll leave you with the nutritional information on mangosteen juice for your reading:

Mangosteen Juice is a popular juice found in different nutrition supplements these days. For hundreds of years, Asian people have used Mangosteen in treatments ranging a full spectrum of health concerns such as inflammation, diarrhea, parasites, wounds, skin infections, burns, pain and more.. Research in western countries shows that the mangosteen fruit has many health benefits also.

Mangosteen as an Antioxidant

Antioxidants are known to help prevent oxidation of our bodies’ cells.
Free radicals cause this oxidation, and the free radicals get into the body as a result of over-exercise, being exposed to dirty air and other environmental pollutants, and stress.

How Antioxidants work

You can see how an antioxidant works by cutting an apple in half and squeezing lemon juice on one half, and leave the other half as it is. After half an hour, the half with the lemon juice on it looks like it was just cut open. The other half is a yukky brown color – the browness was caused by the free radicals in the air.

So, the vitamin C in the lemon juice acted as an antioxidant and prevented the free radicals in the air from damaging the apple. The way the lemon juice works on the apple is the way antioxidants work on the cells in our bodies.

Research has found that the mangosteen’s antioxidants are many times stronger than regular fruit and vegetables. If you drink mangosteen whole fruit juice which includes extract from the pericarp, you will achieve high levels of antioxidant protection.

The mangosteen contains some of the highest amounts of xanthones (a natural chemical substance) found in nature. These xanthones possess very potent antioxidants. When studying 6 of the Xanthones found in Mangosteen, following is a partial list of properties found:

* Increased Energy, Lower Blood Pressure, Anti-depressant,

* Healthier digestion,

* Help relieve migraine, Anti-asthma,

* Natural Pain Relief, Stabilises Thyroid, Heart protective,

* Relieves Urinary Pain, Relieves PMS, Anti-eczema,

* Anti-inflammatory, Anti-diabetic, Anti-tumour,

* Anti-oxidant, Immune and modulating, Anti-arthritic,

* Cholesterol-lowering, Anti-viral/fungal,

* Anti-eczema/psoriasis, Anti-bacterial,

* Anti-Diarrhea, Improved skin quality

Article extraxted from squidoo.com