What is Noni?

TAHITIAN NONI® Juice and Tahitian Noni products are receiving worldwide fame. First to come to the market, TAHITIAN NONI® Juice was introduced by Tahitian Noni International in 1996. The seeds, and leaves were also found to be beneficial and a line of Tahitian Noni products were created. Since then, other companies have tried to gain success by offering noni products as well. TAHITIAN NONI® Juice remains the noni juice of choice because of its unsurpassed quality. Tahitian Noni International (TNI) is in charge of the whole process from picking of the fruit to the sealing of the bottle, testing its quality along the way.

Harvesting

To ensure quality, only trained and certified local harvesters are employed to pick the noni fruit. This is important because a trained eye knows the correct picking time when the fruits’ nutrients will be preserved. 35% of the fruit is picked from noni fruit orchards while 65% is harvested from wild trees in the Tahitian Islands. TNI employs thousands of families from the Tahitian Islands to do the harvesting, washing and shipping of the raw fruit. Once the fruit is picked it is inspected before being carefully placed in plastic liners, sealed, and put into drums. They are then shipped to the main processing plant in Mataiea Tahiti. Upon arrival, the information of where and who harvested the fruit is written down as part of the quality control system. By doing this Tahitian Noni International is able to track (using a code on the bottle) where the fruit was picked and everything that happened to it all the way to the bottling stage.

Processing

A specially built processing plant used only for noni fruit was built in Mataiea which is able to extract the seeds from the noni fruit. Once this is done the fruit is reduced to puree. The seeds are saved. Later the oil is extracted from them. Next the puree is pasteurized according to the American Food & Drug Administration and the Good Manufacturing Practices approved processes. Pasteurization is important for food safety sake. Tahitian Noni International with its stringent process, ensures both high quality and food safety standards are used throughout the processing system. The puree is then packed into chilled large totes and shipped to the Tahitian Noni International bottling plants in Utah, USA, Fukuoka Japan and Shanghai China.

Shipping

Once the pasteurized noni puree is packed in the chilled totes and sealed, a notation is made in the record accompanying the batch. When it arrives at the bottling plan the tote will be unsealed and the puree will be retested for safety and purity.

Testing

Quality control is an important part of the making of TAHITIAN NONI® Juice. Your bottle of TAHITIAN NONI® Juice is tracked from the harvesting of the fruit to the capped bottle. Information and test results are recorded every step of the way. Another form of testing is done at the Tahitian Noni Research facility. Here research is done on the noni fruit, seeds, and leaves to learn more of the health benefits as well as how best to protect and manufacture noni products without losing any of these benefits. A great deal of work and research is done by scientists and technicians alike.

Manufacturing

A small amount of concentrated natural grape and blueberry juice is added to the noni puree according to the Tahitian Noni proprietary formula. It is pasteurized once more due to the added ingredients then poured into sterilized green glass bottles. A cap and a gold coloured plastic seal is placed over the cap and top part of the bottle to ensure safety and add to its beauty. As mentioned earlier, a code is printed on the bottle which can be used to tell where the fruit was harvested and all the information about the quality testing along the manufacturing process.

Raw noni is so strong in taste and odor that it is unpalatable to most people. This is one of the reasons that Tahitian Noni International adds grape and blueberry concentrate to the noni puree. In fact both blueberries and grapes are known for their high antioxidant value and mixed with the noni puree increases the antioxidant value of TAHITIAN NONI® Juice synergistically. TAHITIAN NONI® Equine Essentials™ is another product derived from the noni puree. In the same way that TAHITIAN NONI® Juice is tracked through its process from fruit to bottle, the same is true of TAHITIAN NONI® Equine Essentials™ including the pasteurization, the testing and the stamping of the code on the plastic container. The exception with it is the safety standards followed are according to feed safety standards.

Tahitian Noni International makes other products from the noni leaves, seeds, fruit puree and the noni juice. Some of these products include oils, teas, preserves, facial and body products. These are produced in the American, Japanese and Chinese Tahitian Noni International plants with standards that exceed any of the countries’ standards in which the products are sold. Every Tahitian Noni International product is labeled according to the standards of the country in which they are sold. The European Union and United States provide high quality standards that are followed even if the processing plant is in China, Japan or in United States itself.

Tablets, Capsules and other Noni Products

Other companies who have seen the success of Tahitian Noni International have dehydrated and packaged noni in tablets and capsules. It is uncertain what effect dehydration has on healthful properties of the noni fruit. This is why Tahitian Noni International has continued using a mechanized version of the traditional methods used by the early French Polynesians. Although it is more technologically challenging, the result has been a superior nutritional supplement known the world over.

Benefits

Tahitian Noni International is the leading producer of noni products. Through research they have seen the amazing health benefits of the noni fruit, leaves and seeds in their purest form. As people have experienced these healthy benefits, the popularity of Tahitian Noni products has grown around the world.