Is the Cost of Juice Plus Products Worth It?

 Jenny has finally given us an idea of how much she charges for JP products. Right off the bat the rates are ridiculous in terms of quantity. The boosters - the cheapest product on offer at £78 for four months - would barely last someone three months if they only took one a day. If someone did take three a day, as JP distributors recommend, then the customer would be out of boosters within a month. That is absolutely insane.

This post, meanwhile, is focussing on the fruit and vegetable capsules that are the biggest priced products in the menu. At £37.75 Jenny is charging people £151 for four months supply of fruit and veg capsules, 120 of each. With the recommended dosage being two of each a day, a dedicated customer taking these capsules would be finished in just under two months - 60 days - with a whole two months to go of paying money for absolutely nothing.

Edit 27th February 2016: This is based on the respective products' two capsules per day instruction which would mean four a day overall. If it is one capsule of each a day, the number would even out to 120 days.

Clearly it hasn't taken much effort to demonstrate that JP is a phenomenal rip-off in quantity alone, with their products woefully understocked to cover a four month period that customers have to sign up for. The question now is about what quality? Could it be that the four month fee isn't earned by the amount of capsules you take, but the results?

Here are the vitamins and nutrients you get in JP fruit and veg capsules:

The fruit capsules contain vitamin C, E, A and folic acid.

And the veg capsules contain vitamins C, E, A and... folic acid. Just like the fruit capsules.

Right away other than variance in the amount of each vitamin in the respective capsules, we can see that regardless of them being fruit or veg capsules they both contain the exact same vitamins. It begs the question over what exactly is the difference between fruit and veg capsules.

Jenny wants you to buy these capsules from her for £151. But me being me, like most sane people out there, I'm confident that I can get a much better deal for cheaper. So let's go shopping.

I looked up "apples" in Tesco and found this:

Let's be harsh and assume that each bag of Tesco apples contains the minimum of five. At £1.50 a bag a total number of apples, assuming I eat one a day for four months (as is the case for Jenny's capsules period) would cost me a total of £25.50. I'd actually get stock to last me the whole period and it costs £12.25 cheaper than just one month of Jenny's capsules.

Comparing the vitamins between a regular apple and JP capsules is just embarrassing. There are so, so many nutrients and vitamins in an apple that I have to link you directly to the table because it is far too big for me to put in this blog. But hey, why spend less money for more bang for your buck when you can buy capsules from Jenny?

The same goes for vegetables too. I used my old favourite, broccoli, as the benchmark:

 I get about two meals worth from one loose head of broccoli. Let's assume in an average seven day week I go through four heads, meaning a total of £2.12 a week spent on broccoli.

Overall, in four months, I'd spend £36.04 on broccoli.

Is it worth it? You decide.

Overall, combined, a four month's supply of apples and broccoli comes to £61.54, or, just under £15.38 a month. That's not just cheaper than the fruit and veg capsules, that's cheaper than the boosters. If you had a good look at the nutrients in apples and broccoli, you'd also see that they both contain fibre which does the exact same job as glucomannan in the boosters. So basically, you get all the benefits of Juice Plus products for even cheaper than their cheapest product.

This is a slam-dunk against the overpriced rubbish that JP sells. I am not meaning to say that JP capsules cannot act as supplement for healthy diets, certainly not. I am saying that it is so, so unnecessary when you get much more for your money by just buying fruit and veg from the supermarket. It really doesn't take much effort to grab an apple for a snack or chop up some broccoli for a stir-fry.

It also ends the myth that people cannot afford to eat healthy. £1.50 for a week's worth of apples is cheaper than two large Mars bars. It's cheaper than a pizza. It's marginally more expensive than a single bottle of coke. There is no excuses here, whatsoever.

But don't tell Jenny. Clearly the health expert that is our obese distributor who has taken eight months since joining the scam to start taking weight loss seriously knows more about a guy on the internet who bothered to research the facts.

Unsurprisingly, Jenny hasn't made a sale. She hasn't made more recruitment. As such, our distributor who should be earning a six figure income by May 2017 has made £25 so far in 2016. Fantastic for the first half of the first month of the year.