Does Mangosteen Have Any Nutritional Value?

That’s a good question, does Mangosteen have any nutritional Value?
The answer is yes, but not a great deal, but nutritional value is not the main reason for a person to consume this supplement.. The fruit is delicious, being described as tasting something like a cross between a peach, pineapple, and some say strawberry with hints of a vanilla ice cream flavor. Fresh Mangosteen fruit is extremely hard to find in the U.S, and usually very pricey. The fruit is small, and by the time you get the fruit out of the rind, and each segment usually contains a seed, their is not much left to eat.

As far as nutritional value by itself, the fruit contains 1-7 mg of vitamin C per 100 / gram, carbohydrates – 14-18 grams per 100 grams. It also contains 0.2 mg per 100 grams, 1-5 grams of dietary fiber per 100 grams, and 31 μg^ per 100 grams of folic acid. These are amounts at 5% or above of the DRI. Many commercially available mangosteen products available today are in juice form, mixed with juices such as blueberry, apple, strawberry, cranberry, raspberry and grape juices.

A word of warning however, if you are after strictly the benefits of mangosteen, these juice products commercially available are likely to have very little of the rind or pericarp in them, and that is where a vast majority of xanthones and other phytonutrients come from.  Of all of these products I’ve seen and used, the label also does not list the amount of mangosteen actually in the product. Mangostreen juice products may taste good, and the others juices, have nutritional value. However, the primary reason for consuming mangosteen for the health benefits come from the rind or pericarp or hull of the fruit, which is inedible, extremely bitter. The rind or pericarp is where the powerful xanthones and other important phytonutrients exist.

Our product in capsule form contains only 100 % pure mangosteen rind, 515 mg/capsule. We don’t market any other Mangosteen product.

In conclusion,  does mangosteen have any nutritional value? Yes, but not in the “traditional sense for the layman, but what the rind contains has extraordinary health benefits.

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