Mannatech is encouraging consumers of aloe vera products to be cautious of fake aloe vera products on the market or products that include no or only minute amounts of the healthful ingredients found in aloe vera.
This advice is Mannatech’s response to a recent exposé published by Bloomberg News where it was discovered that many aloe vera-based products found in more than 23,000 stores across the United States didn’t actually include aloe vera.
According to Bloomberg’s independent testing, they found:
Aloe’s three chemical markers — acemannan, malic acid and glucose — were absent in the tests for Wal-Mart, Target and CVS products conducted by a lab hired by Bloomberg News. The three samples contained a cheaper element called maltodextrin, a sugar sometimes used to imitate aloe.
Because of this report, Mannatech is calling on developers of aloe vera products