If Zrii juice has been coming up on posts, here is an intelligent review FYI:

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With the launch of the Zrii juice product and its association with

Deepak Chopra, many readers have been asking NaturalNews to offer our

opinion on the product. Many people are excited about Zrii and the

associated business opportunity, and the fact that it is endorsed by

the Chopra Center lends it credibility in the natural health

community. So to learn more about Zrii, I went to the website

(www.Zrii.com) to find the nutrition facts on Zrii. That's where this

review ran into a significant stumbling block: Zrii doesn't list

its " nutrition facts " label on the website! (At least not that I

could find as of this writing.)

I'm always suspicious of network marketing products that don't openly

advertise their ingredients. Sure, the Zrii website lists

the " featured " ingredients -- Amalaki, Ginger, Turmeric, Tulsi,

Schizandra, Jujube and Haritaki -- but it does not conspicuously tell

you what else is in the juice, but if you dig around the site and

read the fine print, you learn that the primary juices in the Zrii

product are:

• Apple juice

• Pear juice

• Pomegranate juice

This discovery, all by itself, is worthy of a great deal of

skepticism about the integrity and value of the product. But that's

not where my concerns end. I'm also concerned that:

• The website does not offer a nutrition facts label that clearly

lists all the ingredients. To really find out what's in it, you have

to " read the fine print " in the F.A.Q. section.

• The website does not say HOW MUCH of each ingredient is in the

juice. Are we talking 99% apple and pear juice and 1% of the other

botanicals? Or is it more like 80% / 20%?

• The website says the product is pasteurized. That means it's heat

processed, and heat processing destroys many of the natural medicines

that the product is touted to contain in the first place!

• The product is packaged in a plastic bottle, not glass. Does the

plastic contain the toxic chemical Bisphenol-A? Most plastics do.

On the positive side, the website does explain that the seven

botanical ingredients are organically grown and certified free of

pesticides, heavy metals and other chemical contaminants, but at the

same time the primary ingredients (the apple juice, pear juice and

pomegranate juice) are NOT organic. That means the drink is mostly

not organic. (How much is " mostly? " They don't say...)

My hype detection sensor is sounding off

Right off the bat, all this makes me suspicious of the integrity of

the product. If a product is formulated with quality, potent

ingredients, it should tout its " nutrition facts " label and position

that information up front, right on its main website. Instead, the

Zrii website is lush with an eloquent design and a nice video set

against a South American rainforest, but if you try to find real

facts about the product, the website is not conducive to that

process. In other words: Prepare to be dazzled, but not informed.

Secondly, the primary juices in the bottle are pasteurized apple

juice, pear juice and pomegranate juice. I call these " junk juices "

because they're used to fill up the bottle and sweeten the juice at a

very low cost. I mean, c'mon: How cheap is apple juice, anyway? And

besides, if I want apple juice, I think I'd rather just eat fresh

apples, thank you very much.

The fact that four bottles of Zrii costs about $120 also makes me

wonder just how much apple juice is worth these days. At $30 a

bottle, Zrii seems to be the world's most expensive source of non-

organic grape and pear juice, with a relatively small amount of

Ayurvedic medicine thrown in to make it seem more valuable.

Don't get me wrong: I'm a strong supporter of Ayurvedic medicine and

the healing benefits of the touted ingredients. I openly advocate the

use of turmeric to prevent cancer, ginger for circulation, schizandra

for immune modulation, and so on. These are powerful ingredients if

used with proper potency. But understand this: Nowhere in Chinese

medicine or Ayurvedic medicine does it say that you should combine a

few milligrams of these ingredients with a bottle of pasteurized, non-

organic apple juice and chug it! This product, in my opinion, is an

insult to genuine Ayurvedic medicine.

Why I don't recommend Zrii

The formulation and promotional tactics used with Zrii are indicative

of many other network marketing companies I've seen that have junk

products based mostly on cheap fruit juices combined with tiny

amounts of superfruits or medicinal plants. The current talk about

Zrii seems focused on two things: 1) The seven key ingredients (which

are dwarfed by the grape and pear juices), and 2) The income

opportunity.

I don't have a particular bias against network marketing companies --

after all, I openly advocate the Amazon Herb Company's products --

but I'm very selective about who and what I recommend, and I don't

recommend network marketing companies based on what I see as being

low-quality products packed with cheap fillers.

Furthermore, since Zrii is pasteurized, how much medicine is really

left in these plants after they're cooked anyway? Do all the Zrii

customers really know they're drinking DEAD, cooked plants mixed in a

base of processed grape and pear juice? This is so far from the

principles of Ayurvedic medicine that it's almost laughable to see

Deepak Chopra's name associated with it. Personally, I'd be

embarrassed to have my own name associated with such a product.

I have a lot of respect for Chopra, and I've read many of his books.

His teachings and his message is right on about spirituality,

enlightened living, and so on. But the use of his name in the

promotion of this product makes me seriously question whether he made

a serious integrity mistake this time. It seems to me that with this

product, profits are clearly taking a priority over integrity and

genuine medicine.

Sadly, I see this a lot in the natural health field. A lot of the

celebrities and personalities in this industry are too quick to slap

their names on products that in my opinion are flat out inferior.

Want another example? Just look at the ingredients in the Dr. Weil

line of vitamin supplements and see for yourself. Are these really

the best products these people can come up with? With all that

knowledge and higher wisdom and enlightened living and all that, are

you telling me the best stuff these people can come up with is

pasteurized, dead juice product that isn't even organic and a line of

vitamins made with synthetic isolated chemicals? It just boggles the

mind...

What does Zrii taste like?

I've tasted a lot of really potent medicine in my life experience.

I've swallowed thousands of glasses of Chinese medicine, raw

rainforest medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbs and other

medicines. I've chewed on bark, swallowed gummy pastes, and chugged

extremely bitter concoctions. I can tell you this: Zrii does not

taste like medicine to me. It tastes like grape juice.

Real Ayurvedic medicine tastes bitter. So does real Chinese medicine,

real rainforest medicine and real herbal medicine. Zrii does not

taste bitter to me. It tastes primarily like grape juice to my

tongue. Perhaps your experience is different, but in my experience,

Zrii does not taste like real medicine.

Remember: " Pear juice " is not an ingredient in Ayurvedic medicine. So

why is it a primary ingredient in Zrii? Because pear juice is a lot

cheaper (and sweeter) than Ayurvedic medicine. Plus, Americans like

everything all sugared up. Americans often don't want to drink real

medicine. They want to drink a sugared-up beverage and pretend that

it's medicine! So many of these network marketing companies tend to

formulate their juice products to be full of apple juice and pear

juice, leaving little room for truly medicinal ingredients. Instead

of formulating products that are truly medicinal, they tend to

formulate products that consumers will gulp down, regardless of

whether they provide any significant medicinal benefit.

Do your research before jumping on Zrii

I think a lot of folks are currently jumping on the Zrii bandwagon

based entirely on the buzzwords: Chopra, Amalaki, Turmeric, and so

on. They're not really doing the research and finding out whether the

product truly offers anything resembling potent medicine. I know that

a lot of NaturalNews readers are interested in Zrii, and many have

already signed on to the Zrii product line based on all the

excitement, the opportunity to make money, and the association with

Chopra. I certainly honor the positive intentions being expressed by

these people, but I think you may want to be more selective about the

products you recommend, and don't be hoodwinked by the Zrii

promotional materials and product formulation strategy, which

disproportionately emphasizes the minor ingredients while downplaying

the cheap juices that make up the bulk of the product.

I encourage NaturalNews readers to think carefully about the Zrii

product and business opportunity, and to ask yourself this question:

Are you really impressed by the Zrii product, or are you actually

just along for the business opportunity? Because no network marketing

company based on low-quality products seems to survive very long. The

product must be key: It must be a product that people value and would

buy on a regular basis anyway, even if the business opportunity

didn't exist. And personally, I have no interest in buying the Zrii

product. The product doesn't stand on its own, in my opinion. I'd

rather just buy some raw ginger root, turmeric root and dried

Schizandra berries and blend up some of that in a Vita-Mix. It would

be a whole lot cheaper and a lot more potent!

In my personal opinion, the Zrii company will fail unless it

substantially reformulates its products. Right now, Zrii appears to

be just another diluted apple / pear juice " health " drink with a tiny

amount of key ingredients that you could buy on your own at a

fraction of the price as nutritional supplements. If you really want

to drink pear juice with your Ayurvedic medicine, just go to the

store, buy some pear juice, and chug it when you swallow some

Ayurvedic supplements. It will cost you about one-tenth the price of

Zrii.

A fancy name, appealing bottle design and association with a famous

spokesperson (Chopra) does not compensate for the fact that the

product just doesn't stand up to scrutiny by anyone schooled in

either holistic nutrition or Ayurvedic medicine. Is Zrii healthier

than drinking a Coke? Sure it is. But is the product really so

unimpressive that we should even have to make such a comparison?

Shouldn't we be reaching for the best nutrition possible rather than

gulping down something that's just marginally better than mainstream

junk beverages? I suppose that for a teenager who's addicted to

Pepsi, getting him to drink Zrii would be a positive step in the

right direction, but for myself and most NaturalNews readers who

already follow a healthful diet, drinking Zrii would be a setback due

to all the pasteurized liquid fruit sugars contained in the drink.

Raw turmeric and ginger is still the best

Want some powerful turmeric and ginger? Go buy some at the local

health food store and drop a chunk of it into your blender each day,

along with your other superfood smoothie ingredients. I can guarantee

you that fresh, raw turmeric and ginger that you blend yourself is

going to be far more potent than any turmeric and ginger you find in

a bottled, pasteurized juice product.

I'm here to serve you, my readers, with the most honest, independent

assessment I can bring you on products that are gaining attention in

the marketplace. Zrii is getting a lot of attention, but my first

impression of the product does not leave me feeling impressed. The

last thing Americans need is to be chugging is yet more liquid sugars

in the form of processed apple juice and pear juice, and the fact

that Zrii seems to be de-emphasizing its nutrition facts and

highlighting minor ingredients while burying the details about its

predominant ingredients makes me rightly skeptical about the

integrity of the product.

I will continue to investigate Zrii, and I'll bring you more

information on this product as I am able to obtain it. If you're from

the Zrii company headquarters (no distributors, please) and you'd

like to be interviewed here on NaturalNews.com, I'm happy to give you

that opportunity. But please know that I will ask you the same tough

questions I've hinted at here. Nobody gets a free ride on

NaturalNews.com. You want a good review here? You gotta earn it. And

I am not impressed by overpriced apple juice.

I believe that if Chopra is going to lend his name to something, he

deserves to be asked some tough questions, too, about what's really

in the product... just like Dr. Weil and his line of supplements,

which I will likely review here at some point, and which will be

subjected to the same scrutiny.

You can bet that I would personally never lend my name to a juice

product made primarily with grape, pear and pomegranate juices. I

don't care how much money is at stake. The Zrii product apparently

sold $3 million on its opening day. Wow. That's a lot of cash. I

wonder if it's enough to achieve spiritual enlightenment...?

How to speak Zrii: A translation of Zrii hype

Here's a quick guide to translating the Zrii hype posted on the

www.Zrii.com website:

" Prosperity " - The multi-level marketing business plan. It's no

longer about making money and getting rich, it's about " prosperity! "

" Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science " - Tiny quantities of medicinal

plants meet a whole bottle of grape and pear juice. And then the

whole thing is pasteurized.

" Ayurveda: 5000 years of wisdom " - And nowhere in 5,000 years of

wisdom did Ayurvedic medicine practitioners recommend that

overweight, diabetic people drink pasteurized, processed apple juice

and pear juice. To call Zrii " Ayurvedic " is an insult to true

Ayurvedic medicine.

" What our ancestors knew about Ayurveda, a health system dating back

5,000 years ago, has been passed down from generation to generation.

Its primary message is simple, yet profound: align yourself with the

wisdom of nature and you will experience vibrant, glowing health.

That's the guiding philosophy behind Zrii. "

Yeah, but it's still made mostly with apple juice and pear juice.

Remember this, folks: Talk is cheap. These companies can toss out all

kinds of high-vibration language and associate themselves with all

sorts of spiritual-sounding philosophies, but when it comes right

down to it, Zrii is still mostly non-organic, pasteurized apple juice

and pear juice.

And if you think drinking that is going to make your life " abundant "

or " wise " or " enlightened, " then you're kidding yourself.

Enlightenment has never been achieved by anyone selling low-quality

products at high prices to gullible consumers.

By the way, the very fact that I'm posting this article tells you how

much integrity I have in telling the truth and honoring NaturalNews

readers, because if I didn't have great ethics, I would sign up with

Zrii myself and write a bogus glowing article about how great Zrii

is, and how you can get rich while revolutionizing your health and

all that, and I'd make a small fortune off the massive downline

business activity. (I've been offered multi-million dollar deals by

network marketing companies several times.) But of course, you'll

never see that happen here on NaturalNews.com. I'm here to provide

you with the most accurate and honest information I can about health

products, health concepts, dangerous pharmaceuticals and life

practices that produce positive results. I honor my role, and I

respect my audience. My reputation is not for sale, and I tell it

like it is, without sugar-coating the subject (or, with Zrii, grape-

juice-coating it).

If Zrii changes their formula and I'm impressed with the new

formulation, I'll say so and write a positive review. But based on

what I know about Zrii right now, I think the product is a

nutritional joke. I don't care if saying that means Deepak Chopra

will never be a guest on a NaturalNews interview or not. ly, if

Chopra is going to lend his name to a product like this, he probably

doesn't deserve to be on NaturalNews.com in the first place.

You see, I have a simple rule here on NaturalNews.com. I look at what

people DO, not just what they SAY. Look at the ingredients on a

nutritional supplement or superfruit juice, and you'll learn all you

need to know about the integrity (or lack thereof) of the people

behind it. Flowery, spiritual-sounding language doesn't make up for

junk nutritional ingredients! You can't meditate away the reality of

what's really in the bottle.

That's why I continue to openly endorse the Amazon Herb Company and

its founder, Amazon " " Easterling, even though I have absolutely

no financial relationship with the Amazon Herb Company. It's an

organization that I see as offering honest products with really

superb ingredients. Their ethics are straight up, and they're

genuinely working to make the world a better place by revolutionizing

business models that keep the rainforests alive and intact in South

America. To me, the difference between Zrii vs. the Amazon Herb Co.

is like night and day.