With all the choices out there for a home business, it's hard to know which companies are hype and which are profitable. Finding a company that has a product that you're proud to sell can be a challenge as well. In this article, we'll cover the company background for Xango, the health benefits of their product, and the compensation plan for their business opportunity. Does Xango Work? Here's what we found.

Company Background:

Launched in 2002, and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, XanGo is a traditional MLM Company making high profits in the dietary-supplement trade. Founder of XanGo, Joe Morton, who once lived in southeast Asia, was offered a taste of the mangosteen fruit while there, liked it, and decided to mass produce a new category of nutritional supplements containing the fruit. Many people often ask though, How Does Xango Work?

Health Benefits:

XanGo Juice is a blend of mangosteen aril and pericarp purée with the juice concentrates of eight other fruits: apple, pear, grape, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, cranberry and cherry. Other ingredients include citric acid, natural flavor, pectin, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, and potassium sorbate.

Marketing materials used by XanGo to promote mangosteen juice claim more than 20 human health benefits, including "anti-inflammatory," "anti-cancer," "anti-fungal," "anti-viral," "anti-microbial," "anti-ulcer," "anti-hepatotoxic," "anti-rhinoviral," and "anti-allergic" effects. Promotional literature for the product cites antioxidants from the rind of the fruit, which is inedible, as providing health benefits.

So, Does Xango Work? With regard to suggestions that mangosteen has significant anti-inflammatory effects, Dr. Brent Bauer of Mayo Clinic states that "At this time, there have been no human studies to determine if these anti-inflammatory effects will be helpful to people with arthritis or other inflammatory conditions. So for the time being, drink mangosteen juice if you enjoy the taste; but until human studies are completed, claims that mangosteen can cure arthritis or any other disease are just that - undocumented claims." The aril is the flavorful part of the fruit but, when analyzed specifically for its nutrient content, the mangosteen aril is absent of important content.

Business and Compensation Plan:

Does Xango work as a business? Many would agree that yes it does. By November 2008, 6 years since its inception, Xango had reached $1.5 billion in sales. XanGo now operates in 34 countries throughout the world and has over one million distributors. We've uncovered the compensation plan that Xango uses to pay their distributors who were looking for a business opportunity from home.

There are four ways to earn commissions:

1. Retail Sales: Purchase product at wholesale prices, sell at retail and keep the profit.

2. PowerStart (Weekly): PowerStart is paid on a distributor's initial sales order, up to 1,000 Personal Volume, with volume that is placed within 30 days of sign-up.

3. UniLevel (Monthly): XanGo pays 50% on all commissionable volume: 47% through nine compressed levels on all sales orders (excluding sales orders paid as PowerStart) to qualified distributors, and 3% to the Global Bonus Pool for qualifying Premiers and above.

4. Bonus Pools (Quarterly): Qualifying Premiers and above participate in the Global Bonus Pool, sharing 3% of global sales each quarter.