Mangosteen Juice Benefits

Thai mangosteen juice has already been confirmed and proven to be exceedingly advantageous to a person's health. Whether it is the wonderful and super fruit so as to have a lot of advocators that are maintained as well as it will possibly still require and need to be proven.

Mangosteen is typically advertised and marketed as part of an emerging category of novel functional foods sometimes called "superfruits" presumed to have a combination of :

1) appealing subjective characteristics, such as taste, fragrance and visual qualities,
2) nutrient richness,
3) antioxidant strength and
4) potential impact for lowering risk of human diseases.

The aril is the flavorful part of the fruit but, when analyzed specifically for its nutrient content, the mangosteen aril only meets the first criterion above, as its overall nutrient profile is absent of important content.

Some mangosteen juice products contain whole fruit purée or polyphenols extracted from the inedible exocarp (rind) as a formulation strategy to add phytochemical value. The resulting juice has purple color and astringency derived from exocarp pigments, including xanthones under study for potential anti-disease effects. The potential health benefits of xanthones were debated in a four-part series in 2009.

Other authors proposed that alpha-mangostin, a xanthone, could stimulate apoptosis in leukemia cells in vitro. Lead by Dr. Pichaet Wiriyachitra Ph.D.,F.R.A.C.I.,a Thai scientific research team called 'Operation Bim' or 'Mangosteen Research and Development Center (Thailand)' has been successfully researching the stimulating effect from xanthone in cooperation with the Thai ARDA (Agricultural Research and Development Agency) government agency. Research has been going on for over 31 years with very pleasing results. In their research they do not use the exocarp of the product (which should not be consumed in the first place) so only the flesh of the fruit remains. This removes the threat of tannin toxicity and only leaves the beneficial results of the xanthones. 'Operation Bim' has now released a commercial product for Thai customers.
Furthermore, a possible adverse effect may occur from chronic consumption of mangosteen juice containing xanthones. A 2008 medical case report described a patient with severe acidosis possibly attributable to a year of daily use (to lose weight, dose not described) of mangosteen juice infused with tannins.