# Exfuze debunking

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exfuze-debunking/470487>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exfuze-debunking/470487 "2008-10-31T19:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exfuze-debunking/470487/1 "2008-10-31T19:56:16Z")

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I recently got a call from someone I know very well pushing a new “health drink” called Exfuze. This is someone I know well enough that I can say with 100% certainty that he wouldn’t knowingly try to sell me on a scam. But I can also say with pretty near certainty that this Exfuze stuff is a complete scam, and he’s just been fooled. It’s just a multi-level marketing scheme (i.e. should be called a pyramid scheme but technically is not) tied to a snake oil product. Try to google up the nutrition information, and you don’t find it, but you do find a million and one sites that stink of MLM\*.

But what I haven’t found is a serious discussion of the alleged nutritional benefits (presumably debunking them). Anyone got a pointer to one?  
\*amusingly, they’ve even managed to throw barriers in the way of people who suspect it’s a scam and are googling for “exfuze scam,” since all of the results are sites trying to sell you the crap and also claiming “this is not a scam.” Mark of a solid product if I ever saw one.

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**Author:** ![IAmNotSpartacus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IAmNotSpartacus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IAmNotSpartacus)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exfuze-debunking/470487/2 "2008-11-01T06:40:18Z")

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[http://www.e-wollmann.com/pleiadian1/xango.htm](http://www.e-wollmann.com/pleiadian1/xango.htm)

An article from Playboy about Xango, a drink that purports to derive benefits from the mangosteen. I see one of the ingredients of Exfuze is mangosteen.