Oopsie!

Posted By elissa on Jan 5, 2011 | 2 comments

From the Fruta Planta web site:

It works… Naturally!

Fruta Planta is a 100% all natural product and is made from all natural fruit plants. This organic Chinese diet pill has been developed using common fruits and vegetables found in their daily diet for centuries and individually all contain their own health benefits.

Active Ingredients include: Lemon, Bitter Melon, Papaya, Benefit fruit, and Spirulina Maxima.

While you may be thinking that this can’t be all of the ingredients. There must be some kind of drug used to make this pill work? That simply is NOT true. Fruta Planta does not contain added stimulants or controlled substances of any kind. The formula and how it is prepared is proprietary to our company.

Emphasis mine.

From yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel:

The Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers not to use a weight-loss product called Fruta Planta because it has been associated with several heart attacks and one death.

The maker of the product, Kissimmee-based PRock Marketing, is recalling all lots of Fruta Planta and another product called Reduce Weight Fruta Planta. It is the same product, marketed under two different names.

FDA testing of the product found that the weight-loss product contains sibutramine, a drug that was pulled from the market in December for safety reasons. Sibutramine is known to increase blood pressure and pulse rate in some patients and may present a serious risk for those with a history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias or stroke. Sibutramine also may interact in life-threatening ways with other medications a patient may be taking.

The FDA has received multiple reports of adverse events associated with the use of Fruta Planta.