Asia Harvest for Eleviv Ingredient

Each spring, members of the Operations team at XANGO take a trip to Southeast Asia to ensure each aspect of the annual MANGOSTEEN HARVEST meets XANGO’s high standards for quality. In addition to the rigorous schedule we normally undergo for the mangosteen harvest, this year we also visited Malaysia to review the sourcing of one of the four ingredients in Eleviv, Eurycoma longifolia. We would like to share some of the details that go ensure that the best ingredients are used in our unique products and the efforts XANGO makes to provide a superior experience for our Distributors.

In visiting the growers of our Eurycoma longifolia, we better acquainted ourselves with the supply process to ensure sustainability and continued ingredient quality. We spent a few days with a group that gathers this natural ingredient and then uses sophisticated equipment and processes to standardize and concentrate the raw ingredient into a usable ingredient that ends up in our product, Eleviv.

It was a fascinating experience to see the process. Beginning in the orchards, this group started years ago to ensure sustainability and replication to the numerous refining and quality processes utilized in the production of the end ingredient. It is an impressive operation that proved to be educational and reassuring that XANGO has once again found a partner that shares our unequally high standard for quality and effective operation.

We also met with a local researcher who is the leading expert on Eurycoma longifolia and had the opportunity to review his years of research on this dietary ingredient and the benefits it has on vigor and overall health. The level of sophistication and research that has gone into the health benefits of this ingredient makes it an ideal fit for a XANGO product.

The annual sourcing trip is always a whirlwind of flights, meetings, long drives and even longer days. But it is always worthwhile. It’s just another necessary part in bringing the best to XANGO, it’s products and each Distributor. XANGO, and our Operations team, is dedicated to being personally involved in each element of its products and continuing a close relationship with all of our partners. Keeping a close eye on every ingredient in our product is just one more aspect that makes XANGO great.

Aaron C. Sorensen, Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance: Aaron works in XANGO’s product Quality Assurance Department as the department head. He directs the day to day operations of our Quality Assurance team including adherence to quality processes, compliance of FDA regulations, auditing of global partners and Product Development team member. Aaron has an educational background in Chemistry, Material Engineering and Microbiology from Utah Valley University and the University of Utah and completed his Graduate work at Colorado Tech. University.

Alena Larson is XANGO's Product Marketing Manager. Her passion is sharing the message of XANGO. While masterfully orchestrating product marketing messages through various communication channels, she finds fulfillment in seeing the success that comes with sharing the message of health and wellness.