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[wootwoot]

I have recently been introduced to a product named Zrii. They have a website with the ingredients at www.zrii.com. Is this a worthwhile product or is it snake oil?

[DukeNukem]

I have recently been introduced to a product named Zrii. They have a website with the ingredients at www.zrii.com. Is this a worthwhile product or is it snake oil?

From what I can tell, it's mostly marketing hype -- wouldn't recommend it. The problem is that the touted ingredients are not the main ingredients, they only appear in token amounts. The primary juices are filler sugary-packed juices, like grape juice. Now then, these token amounts might still have some benefit, by I'm super suspicious of any product that has a "proprietary blend" in which the exact amounts of each important ingredient are not listed. This is the tried-n-true trick of a product that has something to hide. And that something is likely the that this key advertised ingredients are in short supply. There's no other legitimate reason not to specifically mention the exact amounts used. Any claim that it's a trade secret or something along those lines is merely an excuse.

[edward]

I have recently been introduced to a product named Zrii. They have a website with the ingredients at www.zrii.com. Is this a worthwhile product or is it snake oil?

From what I can tell, it's mostly marketing hype -- wouldn't recommend it. The problem is that the touted ingredients are not the main ingredients, they only appear in token amounts. The primary juices are filler sugary-packed juices, like grape juice. Now then, these token amounts might still have some benefit, by I'm super suspicious of any product that has a "proprietary blend" in which the exact amounts of each important ingredient are not listed. This is the tried-n-true trick of a product that has something to hide. And that something is likely the that this key advertised ingredients are in short supply. There's no other legitimate reason not to specifically mention the exact amounts used. Any claim that it's a trade secret or something along those lines is merely an excuse.

I agree. About sums up the problem with the supplement/refreshing drink concept, that and the large amount of sugar or fructose these all seem to contain. Some of the diet green tea products with splenda though are an exception to this problem though as long as they list mg of EGCG.