SOMANONI® is made only with noni juice. Nothing else. Not even water. The raw materials with which SOMANONI® is processed do not undergo any kind of manipulation. Our noni juice DOES NOT come from concentrated nor lyophilized from noni fruit, reason why we do not have to reconstitute it with water of doubtful origin in doubtful proportions. We just press the aged fruit to extract the juice; then we put it under the pasteurization process that guarantees its stability and suitability for the human consumption. The process of pasteurization and the quality controls allow us NOT to have to add any kind of conservators or preservatives, neither chemical nor natural, that could interfere with the active principles of noni. In the case of our nectar, we added honey because it is the most natural product that can smooth the intense flavor of the noni juice. The honey has been used in the drink processing from the times of the Romans, who added honey to their wines to give them a more pleasant flavor, as we do.

One One of the best standardized worldwide quality controls is the ORGANIC CERTIFICATION. Somanoni® is certified as organic under the costarican MAG 29782 regulation, than allows it to access the ECC as organic because the consideration of Costa Rica as "Third Country"; it is also certified under Biosuisse to access the Swiss market; and under the NOP regulation for EE.UU.. Those certifications are provided by Eco-Lógica®, accepted by the ECC. The plants and the place where the noni is processed are certified by this prestigious international agency.

In this times, the Certification Agencies like Eco-Lógica®, puts under the heights controls level its certified companies to ensure the organic practices, with accent on food security to guarantee the best quality products.

The 4 december of the 2002 The Scientific Committee on Human Feeding of the European Economic Community course a report by which the noni was classified as "new food derived from sources not genetically modified and with no history of use within the European Community". Later, the 5 of June of 2003, the European Commission authorized the commercialization of the "noni juice" (juice of the fruit of Morinda citrifolia L.) as new food ingredient for its use in pasteurized drinks of fruits.

Our legal department studied the european legislation and, after numerous consultations with the Spanish Sanitary Authorities, we obtained the Opinion of Substantial Equivalence that authorizes the commercialization of SOMANONI® within the Community Market. It has place Tico Catalana S.A. as the first Latin American company in obtaining this opinion; and SOMANONI® the only one noni juice, until now, in obtaining it in Spain.

Costa Rica is one of the countries that dedicates more resources to the conservation of their environmental. Their privileged conditions of ground and climate allow CR to obtain agricultural products of recognized quality anywhere in the world. Costa Rican noni, like the banana or coffee (from the Rubiaceae family, as the noni), is maximum quality and is one of richest in active substances of the World.

SOMANONI® is processed with raw material cultivated at less than 250 km of the factory, avoiding the problems of transport and conservation.

SOMANONI® turns Costa Rica into a producing country instead of a mere supplier of raw material, as it usually happens in many tropical countries where this multinational practice foments its poverty.

The plantations where the noni fruit to produce SOMANONI® comes from are placed in agroforestales systems of the Costa Rican South Caribbean, and represents an economical alternative to the cutting and selling of trees for the small producers of the zone, as well as to the monoculture of the banana tree with agrochemicals.

SOMANONI® is produced with noni fruit bought to small Costa Rican producers through ACAPRO (Association of Farmers and Organic Producers of Talamanca), and not to great landowners, reason why the benefits of it's sales is much more distributed. In addition we do not buy noni fruit but the noni juice. This way the agriculturists obtain an added value to their product when selling half-processed raw material to very superior price to which they would be paid for just the fruit.

The nutritional necessities vary from person to person. Actually we could even speak of customized diets. In order to facilitate this kind of diets, SOMANONI® is produced in two versions: somanoni_juice, with practically null sugar levels; and somanoni_ nectar, with sugar levels similar to those of an orange juice.

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