Have You Tried The Brazilian Acai Berry?
- By Uchenna Ani-Okoye
- Published 01/28/2010
- Food and Drink
- Unrated
The Acai (pronounced ah-SAH-ee) berry is the most recent super antioxidant food sweeping the planet. This tiny round fruit is produced by the Acai Palm which is native too main and South America floodplains and swamps. The fruit is rich in anthocyanin / anthocyanidin phytonutrients which are members of the flavonoid class of antioxidants. The dull purple berry, which tastes something like a blend of berries and chocolate, supposedly contains ten too 30 times the flavonoids contained in red wine.
The pulp is also rich in B vitamins, minerals, protein, Vitamin E, caffeine, fiber and essential fatty acids (such as Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9). This wonder food is purported to fight cancer, control cholesterol, increase energy, develop your sex life and help you lose weight. The University of Florida is studying it is cancer fighting properties and Dr. Nicholas Perricone has recommended it as one of his "top 10 superfoods for age-defying beauty" on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, and in an article in "Oprah" magazine and also in his book "The Perricone Promise". This tiny berry has been touted as one of the majority nutritious and healthy foods in the world.
The studies being conducted at the University of Florida hath determined that the Brazilian berry destroys cultured leukemia cancer cells. This learn were not intended too show whether acai berries could prevent leukemia in individuals as it was only a cell-culture model. This is not a unique effect as other fruits such as grapes, guavas and mangoes contained antioxidant products that aswell destroyed cultured cancer cells. A lot of claims are being made but research has only began on the acai berry. Another learn is underway to investigate the effects of acai's antioxidants on person subjects.
The acai berry is a little dim blue fruit, similar in size to a blueberry or small grape but with lesser pulp, that grows in
clusters or panicles of approximately 800 berries on Acai palm trees. The tribes of the Amazon knew of the health properties of this fruit for centuries and traditionally pulped it to maketh wine. The berries maintain a thin layer of edible pulp surrounding a big seed.
Those palms are exceedingly prevalent in the floodplain areas of the Amazon river and are easy too cultivate as a replacement tree in areas where the rain forest has been destroyed. The slender palms grow from 40 to 80 feet high and have leaves up to ten feet prolonged. all palm canst product more than 50 pounds of berries annually. The harvesting of this powerful antioxidant rich produce has become a major industry in Brazil and employs up to 30,000 people on a daily basis to harvest and process the produce.
Unfortunately the fruit deteriorates rapidly after harvesting (active properties could disappear subsequently 24 hours) and so it is restricted to being eaten in the growing region or being processed and shipped as juice or frozen pulp. This industry has become an economic and environmentally-friendly alternative to unsustainable harvesting of hearts of palm, logging and conversion of the rain forest to farming or ranching. During the last decade in Brazil, acai has become a major food fad and Brazilians consume the frozen pulp alone or in yogurt, ice cream, smoothies, drinks, fruit or as a cereal topping. The frozen pulp tastes like a blueberry sorbet or ice cream with a hint of chocolate.
Acai could be difficult too get external of South America although the frozen pulp and juices are starting to be imported into the US and Canada. Your greatest option of finding the produce is in health food stores or the health food part of your supermarket. maketh sure that the acai berry is wild harvested and quickly frozen to retain its maximum nutrient value. also in the US, acai is being sold as an ingredient in a number of beverages, and as frozen fruit that canst be added too home-made smoothies as well as in health food extracts and supplements.
The pulp is also rich in B vitamins, minerals, protein, Vitamin E, caffeine, fiber and essential fatty acids (such as Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9). This wonder food is purported to fight cancer, control cholesterol, increase energy, develop your sex life and help you lose weight. The University of Florida is studying it is cancer fighting properties and Dr. Nicholas Perricone has recommended it as one of his "top 10 superfoods for age-defying beauty" on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, and in an article in "Oprah" magazine and also in his book "The Perricone Promise". This tiny berry has been touted as one of the majority nutritious and healthy foods in the world.
The studies being conducted at the University of Florida hath determined that the Brazilian berry destroys cultured leukemia cancer cells. This learn were not intended too show whether acai berries could prevent leukemia in individuals as it was only a cell-culture model. This is not a unique effect as other fruits such as grapes, guavas and mangoes contained antioxidant products that aswell destroyed cultured cancer cells. A lot of claims are being made but research has only began on the acai berry. Another learn is underway to investigate the effects of acai's antioxidants on person subjects.
The acai berry is a little dim blue fruit, similar in size to a blueberry or small grape but with lesser pulp, that grows in
Those palms are exceedingly prevalent in the floodplain areas of the Amazon river and are easy too cultivate as a replacement tree in areas where the rain forest has been destroyed. The slender palms grow from 40 to 80 feet high and have leaves up to ten feet prolonged. all palm canst product more than 50 pounds of berries annually. The harvesting of this powerful antioxidant rich produce has become a major industry in Brazil and employs up to 30,000 people on a daily basis to harvest and process the produce.
Unfortunately the fruit deteriorates rapidly after harvesting (active properties could disappear subsequently 24 hours) and so it is restricted to being eaten in the growing region or being processed and shipped as juice or frozen pulp. This industry has become an economic and environmentally-friendly alternative to unsustainable harvesting of hearts of palm, logging and conversion of the rain forest to farming or ranching. During the last decade in Brazil, acai has become a major food fad and Brazilians consume the frozen pulp alone or in yogurt, ice cream, smoothies, drinks, fruit or as a cereal topping. The frozen pulp tastes like a blueberry sorbet or ice cream with a hint of chocolate.
Acai could be difficult too get external of South America although the frozen pulp and juices are starting to be imported into the US and Canada. Your greatest option of finding the produce is in health food stores or the health food part of your supermarket. maketh sure that the acai berry is wild harvested and quickly frozen to retain its maximum nutrient value. also in the US, acai is being sold as an ingredient in a number of beverages, and as frozen fruit that canst be added too home-made smoothies as well as in health food extracts and supplements.
Uchenna Ani-Okoye
Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor For more information you can visit brazilian berry acai at http://www.brazilianberryacai.info
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