The mangosteen is a fruit from South Asia, not imported as a whole fruit in any other country. It's a unique and remarkable fruit with the capability of helping with cancer and other diseases and illnesses. The fruit has 17000 antioxidents. Compared with the next fruit down having only 3000, I think it beats all fruits. There are over 40 Xanthones found in the fruit hence the name XanGo the company that brings it to the USA and the United Kingdom has a health beverage. Check out the scientific papers on the fruit and the testomonies from the Xango site http://www.xango.net.What do you think. Does anyone reckon it does this and maybe the pharmaceuticals have beem slow in catching the ball and running with it? Perhaps the health industry is not ready to accept a fruit which has this capability. Imagine all the jobs being lost. The countries would go into economical crisis.Tell us what you think.

Xanthones (Mangostin compounds) have shown some promise in anti-microbial clinical trials, and some improvement with invitro lukemia cells. They are highly active anti-oxidants and anti-radical agents. However, only the rind of the mangosteen contains these ridiculous amounts of xanthones, and dosages have not been established, assuming that drinking any of them would make a difference. Pure Xanthone in mangosteens is used by the plant as an insecticide, and people have extracted it from mangosteens (and from phenyl scalicylate) for this purpose.In other words, while it may be true that the mangosteen has some beneficial chemicals for mankind, we have no idea how great those benefits are that can be made into a juice, and there is no guarantee that that's what you're getting in the juice.