acai berry and orac

Before we start this post about the acai berries and ORAC score, let’s go over the ORAC score definition.

ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity, which is a method of measuring antioxidant capacities in biological samples in vitro.

Acai scores higher than pomegranates and blue berries as you can see on the chart below:

But what does it mean to score high in the ORAC levels? A wide variety of foods, fruits, berries, vegetables and beverages are measured agains this score to evaluate potential antioxidant capacity. It is important to mention that ORAC measures potential in vitro, and there is no clinical proof that the free radical theory is valid in vivo.