<p>So all of the sudden it seems like everyone in our small area is on the Mona Vie bandwagon. For those of you who don’t know it is some kind of acia berry drink that supposedly cures everything and anything.<br>
I’m just really curious about how all of the sudden this thing started snowballing around here. Is anyone else getting bombarded with the sales pitch? </p>
<p>Is anyone actually drinking the stuff ?</p>
<p>From what I can tell, it’s a MLM (multi-level marketing) thing. If you want to drink acai berry juice, go to a nearby Jamba Juice and get a smoothie. :)</p>
<p>The funny thing is right before it got big my business teacher was talking about how it was an untapped market in the US because he lived in Brazil and they were obsessed with the stuff there. </p>
<p>Really it’s just tasty. I haven’t really tried it but I have a lot of friends who do. It is pretty good, has anti-oxidants and all that I guess, I would think in the forms Americans want it (smoothies, ice cream, etc) all the sugar and such will somewhat cancel that out. But the taste is popular. From what I have heard described, it is maybe kind of like something we had in Canada (my grandparents have a house there), a syrup from a berry you add to water to make drinks. It is purple. I don’t remember what.</p>
<p>I was buying what I thought was a bottle of Berry Blast smoothie and got the Acai flavor by mistake (both purple). To be honest, it tasted nasty. Maybe it’s an aquired taste, but I won’t be aquiring any more soon.</p>
<p>mootmom,
That was my theory. Just buy some juice or start eating more fruit and less junk. I went to a tasting party last night and they were mixing the stuff in drinks. Mona Vie margarita, etc. I kept wondering, doesn’t the alcohol and sugar cancel out the healthy part of this…anyway I was just curious because of all the sudden I can’t escape these MLM people.<br>
Last year it was some outrageously expensive skin cream. I can’t remember the name of it now. I kept telling my friends, skin cream is 99% water, you are hydrating your skin with it. I buy my skin cream at the 99 cent store.</p>
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Well, so is that yeast stuff from Australia–vegemite. Guess its an acquired taste. :p</p>
<p>Well like I said a lot of places are putting it in stuff like ice cream. Some of the bottled smoothies with acai are mixed with other stuff (like it’s a bunch of fruits) and it’s sort of pulpy and gross. But that is true of a lot of those kinds of “smoothies” in general. It’s all right. Supposedly it is better in a less processed form. I have only tasted the bottled smoothie kind which contained other flavors and I did not care for it to be honest. However word on the street is that from places that make stuff fresh with it (we have a chain called Robeks near home) it is good.</p>
<p>Okay I did a little more investigating and you will all be relieved to hear that I will NOT be joining this latest MLM craze. I did find out that you can go to any decent health food store and get it fresh in your smoothie. In that fresh form, as Princedog says it is good.<br>
It’s just fascinating to me how these things grow a life of their own.</p>
<p>ebeeeee, thanks for the heads up on acai – since most trends start in SoCal, I guess it’ll sweep Colorado soon enough. Maybe I should start talking about it at work to show how ‘with it’ I am…</p>
<p>I guess this means that NONI Juice has run its course.:p</p>