{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-04T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-03-04T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:03:55","slug":"exfuze-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"eXfuze Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend tells me he is getting ready to sign on as an eXfuze drink distributor. \u00a0In his\u00a0explanation\u00a0of the company, he named a few fruits I had never heard of. Not wanting to get left in the dust (yet again) about some new trend, I decided to do &#8220;light&#8221; research on some of the supposedly salutary effects of the fruit drinks this company is pushing. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what I found on the &#8220;7+&#8221; group of fruits they market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Fucoidan &#8211; From brown seaweed. eXfuze&#8217;s site compares it nutritional value as equal to breast milk. \u00a0Many reports indicate it is healthful.<\/li>\n<li>Mangosteen &#8211; The point of interest here is a group of organic compounds called Xanthones, found in the hard shell of the fruit. \u00a0On the one hand, these compounds can be used for insecticides, on the other hand lots of people say they have healthful effects.<\/li>\n<li>Sea buckthorn &#8211; Apparently very high concentration of Vitamin C (much higher than, say, and orange.) \u00a0Lots of other supposed good acids.<\/li>\n<li>Noni &#8211; a potato sized fruit, lots of vitamin C and fiber. \u00a0Several medical reports indicate it is high in potassium, a problem for people with kidney problems; also, it may contain levels of toxicity dangerous to some parts of the body.<\/li>\n<li>Goji &#8211; A cute berry loaded with tons of amino acids and vitamins. \u00a0Reports indicate many of its claims, such as preventing cancer, have been been debunked.<\/li>\n<li>Acai &#8211; Extremely high in dietary fiber. Lots of\u00a0antioxidants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Gac &#8211; More lypotene than tomatoes, more beta-carotine than carrots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all, none of these fruits seem like they will do you harm &#8211; except to your pocketbook. \u00a0 It isn&#8217;t clear, however, that any of these items are any more salutary than any other fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend tells me he is getting ready to sign on as an eXfuze drink distributor. \u00a0In his\u00a0explanation\u00a0of the company, he named a few fruits I had never heard of. Not wanting to get left in the dust (yet again) about some new trend, I decided to do &#8220;light&#8221; research on some of the supposedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eXfuze Drinks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}