Mona Vie offers a nutritional products that are marketed via a multi level network of independent distributors. The benefits attributed to Mona Vie juice and Active include living longer, having greater energy and reduced aches and pains and, if you are a distributor, making money.

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mona Vie was started by Dallin Larsen. The firm is well respected and is considered to have a generous compensation program that can be lucrative if you produce. Like many MLM programs, Mona Vie pays a team bonus on a binary plan in addition to various other income streams including retail sales mark-up, bulk order bonus, first order bonus, star maker bonus, executive bonus and a leadership incentive.

Mona Vie is priced in the $30 to $40 range per 25 ounce bottle and has a retail mark-up of about 15 percent. Distributors who purchase in bulk can increase their margins and earn bonus points. The pricing structure is designed to reward the representatives who sell more product.

The recommended dosage of the juice in order to achieve the claimed benefits is one to two ounces twice daily. At that rate, a bottle would last about a week. The key ingredient is acai berry, from the Brazilian Amazon. Acai is considered to be a super-food due to high levels of antioxidants. Other fruits are added to created a juice blend which tastes great to some people.

As with many nutritional supplements, one hears claims that Mona Vie can increase your energy level, reduce joint pain and ward off serious medical conditions such as heart disease, hypertension and so on. Mona Vie does not make aggressive disease prevention claims in their literature so such claims are probably the work of over-zealous distributors. The company literature talks about delivering antioxidants, phytonutrients and glucosamine and esterified fatty acids in certain of their products.

Many people in the USA fail to consume the recommended servings of fruit and produce daily. It follows that nutritional supplements can be a benefit when diet does not deliver all the needed nutrients. Attention to detail is important in comparing nutritional products. I noticed that the Mona Vie literature lists relatively few nutrients compared to a multi-vitamin product.

Although the primary benefits of the Mona Vie product are said to stem from antioxidants, the ORAC score of a serving of Mona Vie was not stated in the material that I read. Clearly, acai berry has high ORAC value but it is still important to know the ORAC value per serving. As for vitamins and minerals, the Mona Vie literature indicated that one serving contains 20% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C, 1% of the sodium and 3% of total carbohydrates.

Personally, I am not impressed with Mona Vie because of the price and limited vitamin and mineral content. I currently take a Liquid Multi Formula which contains 2500 ORAC units per serving in addition to a full complement of vitamins, minerals and supplements. I pay $30 delivered for a month’s supply which is a fraction of the cost of Mona Vie and mine is an MLM product too.

Those looking for an antioxidant supplement or business should check out Xocai healthy chocolate with 3582 ORAC value in each square. I suspect that it is easier to sell people on the idea of substituing healthy chocolate for other candy in order to get their antioxidants than getting them add a costly juice.

If you feel that your home business should have a consumable product that people need and want and that is good value, then you may have some concerns over the cost / benefit aspect of Mona Vie. However, the company is very successful which makes it clear that they know how to market and build a distributor organization.

I have noticed that the desirability of the product and the cost of the monthly autoship are important factors that people look at when deciding whether to join a network marketing company. Since Mona Vie would not replace my multi-vitamin supplement it would be an extra monthly cost and I suspect that prospsective customers would look at it the same way.

On balance, I think that people seeking a home business opportunity can find better alternatives than Mona Vie that will be easier to promote and will have better customer retention.