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The management team at Monavie must be having a really strong sense of deja-vu at the moment. Not only is their product failing, but they and their parent company Monarch Health Sciences are being investigated by the FDA for what can only be described as dubious business practice.

Monavie was founded in 2005 by MLM company Monarch Health Sciences. The company base is in Salt Lake City, Utah. Many of the management team are ex-members of other (failed) MLM enterprises, and some even with other distributors of acai juices. You would have thought that with all this experience, they would have got something right!

Not that it’s on the top of their list of priorities at the moment, but their product is inferior to almost everything else on the market. It is more expensive — tipping the scales at almost twice the price of the vastly superior Amazon Thunder acai juice — it contains much less acai than its competitors (in fact it contains very little acai at all), and, to top all, the brand is being marketed to customers as a cure for many things that it is a not a cure for. Nutritionists everywhere have warned that Monavie’s outrageous claims as to the potency of their acai juice simply cannot be proved.