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 Acai History - Acai Berry
The history of the berry from the Brazilian Amazon that is changing the concept
of healthy food. Acai
(açaí) is a palm tree that grows in the North of Brazil. It is known by the native
people (indigenas) as "içá-çai", which means “fruit that cries”. The Acai tree
can be found all over the Amazonia region. To make Acai Roots, juice is extracted
from the pulp of the skin of the seed. No trees are harmed in the process. For
hundreds of years, acai (açaí) has been a traditional food of the native people
of the Amazon – and part of its folklore, finding its way into legend as well
as onto the table. Once upon a time, there was an Amazon Indian girl named Iaca,
whose father was the tribal chief. His tribe had grown so large that there wasn’t
enough food to go around. So, the chief decreed that all newborn babies must be
killed. When Iaca, his own daughter, bore a child, the chief had his decree carried
out. Iaca mourned her baby’s death alone in her hut for days. Then she thought
she heard a baby crying. When she went outside in search of the baby, she saw
a palm tree shooting up from the earth, covered in fruit. Full of despair, she
lay down under the tree and died. The next day, the tribe found Iaca’s body under
the new tree. The tree’s fruit satisfied their hunger and renewed their energy,
and the chief lifted his harsh decree, declaring that the fruit would be named
after his daughter (“Acai” is “Iaca” spelled backwards). With abundant food for
all, the tribe grew and flourished. Acai has been enjoyed for decades by the people
of Brazil. A bowl of Acai is usually eaten in the morning with breakfast. In the
1950’s, doctors began to realize the health benefits of Acai. In the 1960’s, the
famous Gracie jiu-jitsu family recommended eating Acai before and after workouts.
Recently, several new medical studies in the United States and Europe have found
even more exciting health benefits of Acai. |
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Acai Recipes - Acai Fruit
NEW! Acai Milk Shake - Ipanema Style
Pour 2 ice cream scoops of Acai Roots into a blender,
2 ice cream scoops of vanila ice cream. Add 1/5 cup
of milk. Blend until smooth and serve.
NEW! Leblon Style
Pour 2 ice cream scoops of Acai Roots into a blender,
1 ice cream scoop of yogurt. Add 1/2 cup of Apple
juice or Soy milk, 1 frozen banana and 3 frozen
strawberries. Blend until smooth and serve topped
with granola and bananas slices (fresh).
Brazilian Style
Pour 7 oz. (200g) of Acai Roots into a blender.
Add 1/2 cup of soy milk or juice and 1 banana.
Blend until smooth and serve topped
with banana slices and granola.
Acai Smoothie
Blend 7 oz. (200g) of Acai Roots with one cup
of juice or soy milk, 1 banana, 1/4 cup of
strawberries or other fruit and 1/2
cup of ice or yogurt.
Acai Drink - 8 oz.
Blend 3.5 oz. (100g) of Acai Roots with 1 cup
of juice 1/2 cup of ice and 1/2 cup of
banana slices or strawberries.
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Acai Fruit - Oprah.com - "Mind and Body" - 2005
"Acai fruit
This little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world. It can often be found in juice form in health food and gourmet stores. "
THE FINEST ACAI NOW DELIVERED TO YOUR DOORSTEP
Submitted by: Luca Atalla ADCC News
Posted On 02/15/2006
February 14, 2006
For Immediate Release
(San Diego, CA) The finest Brazilian Acai can now be delivered directly to any address in the continental United States, it was announced today by Igor de Freitas, Vice President of Business Development at Acai Roots, Inc.
Already available at numerous quality retail locations throughout Southern California, Acai Roots can now be shipped to your home. For full details, please look at the Acai Roots website: www.acairoots.com
Acai Roots offers the highest quality acai direct from Brazil. Formulated to exacting standards, Acai Roots is dark in color, rich in taste, and smooth in texture. It has been judged to have a richer, smoother flavor than other acai products available in the United States. Acai Roots is 100% natural made with organic sugar.
Acai Roots comes direct to your doorstep in a 3.6 liter bucket, which is enough for over 30 servings. It is shipped in dry ice to ensure its freshness.
Started by Igor de Freitas and Marco Rega two young Brazilians from Rio de Janeiro who grew up eating acai three times a day, Acai Roots is a leading supplier of healthy acai in Southern California. It can now be shipped anywhere in the Continental United States.
For further information contact:
Igor de Freitas - (619) 664-4362
Acai Fruit - Oprah.com - "Mind and Body" - 2005
"Acai fruit
This little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world. It can often be found in juice form in health food and gourmet stores. "
Health Science Institute - July, 2003
Açaí - Nature's Perfect Food
By Judy Douglas
Discover the amazing health benefits of the fruit from the Amazon's "tree of
life". If you get your health guidance from the mainstream media, you'd think
the healthiest way to live is to guzzle red wine and drown everything in olive
oil. That's basically what they've told us in recent years. First, it was the
'French paradox'--the fact that the French, who generally eat lots of cheese,
cream, and butter; drink lots of wine; and smoke like chimneys, are healthier
than Americans.
Scientists told us it was all in the wine -specifically, in
the anthocyanins- the antioxidant flavonoid that gives red grapes their deep
color. Then it was the "Mediterranean diet," the traditional way of eating in
the regions of Italy and Spain, where olive oil is a staple. We learned that
olive oil is a good source of essential fatty acids that are processed right
out of many Americanized foods. I'm not discounting the benefits of either of
these phytochemicals. In fact, in a minute I'll explain exactly why both are
so important to good health. I just question the sources recommended in the
headlines. There's got to be a better way to get these valuable nutrients than
guzzling wine and drowning in oil. As it turns out, there is. I learned about
it from HSI panelist Jon Barron. He told me about a single superfood from the
Amazon that, fresh from the tree, can provide over 30 times the amount of anthocyanins
as red wine and all the beneficial fatty acids of olive oil in one delicious,
all-natural package. And this is just the beginning of this food's health benefits.
It's virtually impossible to over-do this food - which is certainly not the
case with red wine or olive oil. Get the healing power of many phytonutrients
in one delicious package. There's no disputing the health benefits of anthocyanins
and essential fatty acids. Both have proven to be powerful nutritional tools
in the quest for good health. Research has shown that plant pigments like anthocyanins
are potent antioxidants.
The cardiovascular benefits are the most well known;
studies show that anthocyanins can help prevent blood clots, improve blood circulation,
relax blood vessels, and prevent atherosclerosis. But scientists have also uncovered
a whole host of other powerful effects from anthocyanins, including antiviral
and antiallergenic properties. Some research even suggests that anthocyanins
can prevent cancer, by blocking carcinogenesis on a molecular level and encouraging
tumor cell death.
Essential fatty acids have proven just as powerful. Oleic
acid, a monounsaturated omega-9 acid, and linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated omega-6
acid, help lower LDL, and maintain healthy HDL levels. They also increase the
absorption of fat-soluable vitamins like vitamins A, E, D, and K, which are
essential to good health. Research has even suggested that oleic acid may prevent
against cancer and hypertension. Olive oil may be the best known sources of
these nutrients, but it is certainly not the only one. It's the pigment in red
grapes that gives wine its anthocyanins - and that same pigment can also be
found in other red and purple fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, red
cabbage, and purple sweet potatoes. Oleic acid is also present in pecans and
seed oils, and linoleic acid is found in peanuts. But there is one food that
delivers it all - plus other healthy nutrients like fiber, phytosterols, and
vitamins C and E.
For centuries, it's been a staple for people in Brazil, yet
virtually unknown to anyone outside the region - until now. Discover the health
secret of generations of Amazonian Indians. It's called açaí
(pronounced ah-sigh-ee), and it's the fruit of a palm tree that
grows in the rain forests of the Amazon - a tree Brazilians call "The Tree of
Life." About 90 percent of the small, round fruit is its hard, inedible pit
- but that's OK, because it's the outside skin that holds the treasure. That
dark purple skin is what contains the anthocyanins. The natives puree the skins,
creating a treat that can be served warm as a sauce over fruit or grains or
frozen like a sorbet. They've been eating it for centuries, passing down recipes
from generation to generation. (The native people have also passed down the
story of how açaí was discovered.) Because fruit itself is perishable, its popularity
never spread beyond the region. Super food fights heart disease, cancer, prostate
enlargement, and more. Since then, the news about açaí has been steadily spreading
- and the evidence of nutritional and health benefits just keep piling up. Consider
this: a 100-gram serving of açaí contains only 90 calories, just two grams of
fat and no cholesterol. Plus, it delivers 3.5 grams of dietary fiber, something
we could all use more of in our diets. Improved processing of the fresh fruit
is making it possible to preserve more of the fruit's healthful attributes.
Currently, the puree provides more anthocyanins than red wine and has antioxidant
concentrations that well outweigh blueberries. Subsequent research has shown
that in addition to the anthocyanins and essential fatty acids, açaí also contains
a healthy dose of plant sterols, another class of phytochemicals that have been
shown to reduce cholesterol, protect the immune system, and relieve prostate
enlargement. In fact, it turns out açaí is in the same family as saw palmetto,
a common herbal treatment for prostate enlargement. And researchers at the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro have discovered that açaí extract can be used to
fight infection, like the parasitic infection schistosomosis which affects 10
million Brazilians each year and the common bacterial infection staphylococcus
aureus. It seems there's no end to this miracle fruit's health benefits. |
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Acai FAQ - Acai Berry - Acai Fruit
What is Acai?
Acai is a berry from the Amazon. It has been considered the healthiest berry in the world due to the great concentration of antioxidants, healthy omega fats and fibers.
What is the origin of Acai?
Acai is original from Amazon, Brazil.
Why Acai is so good for us?
Acai is loaded with antioxidants, about 30 times more than red wine.
Antioxidants are molecules that may protect cells from the damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals. Free radical damage may lead to cancer. Antioxidants interact with and stabilize free radicals and may prevent some of the damage free radicals otherwise might cause. Acai also carries lots of fibers, healthy monounsaturated fats, iron and amino acids.
Why Can't I buy the Acai Berries?
The acai berry is about 97-98% seed, and only 2-3% "meat" (as the Brazilian locals call it). 24 hours after harvested, the Acai berry already lost most of its nutritional value.
Why Acai is called the "super food" ?
Acai is loaded with antioxidants, about 20 times more than red wine, which helps fight aging. Acai also carries lots of fibers, healthy monounsaturated fats, iron and amino acids.
Why Acai Roots?
Acai roots was developed by two local Brazilians who were born and raised in Rio de Janeiro during the Acai boom (80's-90's). During that time they were "spoiled" with most delicous and healthy Acai bowls (the real Rio de Janeiro style Bowl), and created real high-standard for Acai. When they were exposed to the Acai available in the US (2000-2001), they thought it wasn't close to what they were used to back home. That is when Acai Roots started to be formed.
Today Americans can really enjoy the real Rio de Janeiro style Acai bowl.
Why does Acai Roots taste so much better than the other Acai products available in the US?
The main reason why Acai Roots tastes so much better than any other Acai products in the US is because it was formulated by very demanding Brazilian locals. We know it sounds weird, but after many tests with both Americans and Brazilians in the US we concluded people enjoy our product much more than the other brands available in the US.
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Acai (Açaí), also known as super berry or power berry (in the Amazon they call it "Viagra da Amazonia") due to the amount nutrients and fibers ascribed to it.
Because of its rich content of anthocyanin pigments that give it the characteristic deep purple color, açaí likely imparts important health benefits associated with consumption of antioxidant pigments, such as reduced risk or prevention of cancer, diabetes, chronic inflammation, heart and vascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and other types of neurodegeneration, high blood cholesterol, stroke, bacterial infections, urinary tract infections, age-related visual deterioration and premature aging.
Acai is constantly used topically as a strong antibacterial mix in Brazil.
Acai in the fight against cancer?
On a study performed at the University of Florida in 2006, it was showed that acai antioxidants could induce faster death, also known as apoptosis, of leukemia cells in vitro. An article is published on the University's website, titled as "Brazilian berry destroys cancer cells in lab, UF study shows". The article starts like this:
"GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.
Published today in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH’-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested, said Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences."
Mr. Talcott emphasizes the fact that Acai is one of the richest fruit sources of antioxidants: “Acai berries are already considered one of the richest fruit sources of antioxidants,” Talcott said. “This study was an important step toward learning what people may gain from using beverages, dietary supplements or other products made with the berries."
This preliminary research indicates a possible anti-cancer effect of anthocyanins and other pigments, as shown for North American dark berries like the blueberry and black raspberry.Six reports have been listed on the US National Library of Medicine database, since 2004.
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The Acai Berry Boosts Immunity
More and more people seem to be getting sicker, longer than ever before. This is because our food is grown in environments which are poorer in natural minerals and we don't eat as well as we should.
The Acai berry is grown in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest in some of the richest soil on the planet. As a result, each berry is packed with the most complete naturally occurring assortment of exactly what the body needs to fight disease and increase energy.
When the body has what it needs to fight off disease, the human body becomes amazingly resilient to infections both from bacterial agents, as well as viral agents.
Why are Antioxidants so Important
To understand the role that antioxidants play, you have to understand what free radicals are. Free radicals are molecules that reportedly damage our cellular membranes and even our DNA. Free radicals come from various pesticides, preservatives, and pollutants in the very air that we breath. If our bodies lack the fuel to fight off these free radicals, then we run the risk of our cells mutating and forming cancerous growths.
Antioxidants are created by the body from various substances and are what the body uses to fight off these free radicals and strengthen cells. Antioxidants allows the body to neutralize many of these free radicals reducing the risk of many diseases, including heart disease.
The body converts many vitamins and minerals into antioxidants, of these most are contained in the Acai berry.
The Acai Berry Boosts Resistance to Diseases
Nothing is more essential to living a healthy life, than having a strong immune system. It is extremely important that we give our body nutrients that it needs to fight sickness. Diseases can cause us to age more rapidly and can lead to many more life threatening issues. Research has shown that antioxidants are vital to strengthening the body's ability to resist disease.
These antioxidants play a vital role in strengthening our cellular walls and decreasing cholesterol related disease.
The Acai Berry Increases Energy
While the immune system is perhaps the most important benefit, many people also use Acai to boost their energy levels. The failure of people to eat a diet high in antioxidants leads to drastically decreased energy levels as they grow older.
Many people have reported having increased energy, stamina, and vitality comparable to when they were in their twenties. Imagine the change in lifestyle you will see simply by adding Acai to your diet.
The Acai Berry and Cholesterol
The Acai berry can help maintain good (HDL) cholesterol while reducing bad (LDL) cholesterol. This is necessary to reduce the risk of fatty buildups in the arteries which can lead to heart disease. Even the FDA is starting to realize the potential that the essential fatty acids can play in decreasing heart disease. They recently began allowing manufacturers to put the following statement on their Omega-3 containing products: "Supportive but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."
In addition to the essential fatty acids, the antioxidants contained in the Acai berry, can help to reduce the risk of heart disease reportedly caused by free radicals in the body.
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