Ingredients / Mangosteen

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The mangosteen fruit is about the size of a tangerine. It has a smooth, dark purple rind encasing a snow-white fruit. Limited to tropical zones with abundant rainfall, the mangosteen tree takes 10 years to mature and bear fruit. Fully mature trees can be up to 80 feet tall, and may produce thousands of individual fruits each year. Mangosteen has been used for thousands of years throughout Asia for its health enhancing properties. When Queen Victoria tasted this imported delicacy in the mid-1800s, she promptly declared it her favorite fruit. Since then it’s been commonly referred to as “Queen of Fruits.”

Centuries later, science has finally corroborated what folklore medicine has known for centuries: mangosteen works! The key ingredient of the mangosteen fruit is called xanthones, a natural chemical substance that has recently won high praise from numerous scientists and researchers. What’s remarkable is that the mangosteen - not just the inner flesh, but the whole fruit - represents the single greatest known supply of these tremendously beneficial xanthones.

Despite the fact that mangosteen has only recently been discovered in the West, there have already been literally hundreds of research papers and third party studies conducted on mangosteen and xanthones throughout the world. Positive articles are being published across the country in scientific journals including:

• Biochemical Pharmacology
• Free Radical Research
• Journal of Pharmacology
• Journal of Enzyme Inhibitors
• Planta Medica
• Journal of Natural Products

Mangosteen was featured in Sports Illustrated on January 15th, 2007 in an interview with Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. Drew stated that he takes mangosteen every night at 9 pm!

The New York Times did a feature on the mangosteen fruit on September 24, 2003 called,"Forbidden Fruit: Something About a Mangosteen" By R.W. Apple Jr. You can read a copy of this article here.

July 2003. Gourmet Magazine called mangosteen “The finest fruit in the world! Unbearably exquisite, a sweet tart medley of elegance and opulence with echoes of savory fruit”. You can read a copy of this article here.