Berries

Category: Berries

Category will go over berries, comparing the acai berry with other berries, benefits and antioxidants.

fresh acai berries

Fresh acai berries! Who wouldn’t want them? That is what we do full time, 24 x 7 our team is looking for the freshest and darkest purple acai berries! With the increasing popularity of the acai berry around the world many people come to us asking: “How can I get the actual fresh acai berries?”. The question makes all the sense, but when you understand how acai grows, how it is harvested and processed the answer to this question becomes...

1 May 2012

acai fruit

The acai fruit grows in a palm tree from the Euterpe oleracea species, known for its fruit and hearts of palm. The word ‘acai’ comes from the Tupi (native Brazilian indigena language), and it means “fruit that cries”, because of the strong purple juice that comes from the fruit. The fruit The fruit itself is a small round dark purple drupe that grows in slender palm trees. The acai fruit has about 1 inch of diameter, being about 90% of...

17 Nov 2011

acai berry

what is the acai berry The acai berry is a dark purple small berry that grows in palm trees in the Amazon rain forest. Known for its high antioxidant content the berry has been used in Brasil for hundreds of years, and recently has been brought to the US. The most popular products made from the acai berry are: acai juice, acai bowls, acai smoothies, sorbet and supplements. where can I find acai berries The berries can only be found...

15 Nov 2011

Berry definition Berries are fruits that are produced from a single ovary. In spoken English “berry” is just a small edible fruit, that is typically sweet or sour, juicy and round. The scientific definition though is a bit more comprehensive, including fruits that normally would not be considered a berry such as tomatoes or even bananas. Examples of berries Examples of botanical berries are: grapes, blue berries, strawberries, bananas, cranberries, currants, elderberries, tomatoes, wolf berries, watermelons, etc. Berries that are...

8 Nov 2011

acai bowl

This is a pretty important one: acai bowl! Many people learn about the acai berry after tasting this amazing and healthy treat. We will teach you everything you need to know about acai bowls, and we grew up eating acai bowls in Rio, where they were created and sold to the World! what is an acai bowl? An acai bowl is a thick smoothie made from acai pulp or sorbet, blended with other frozen fruits and a liquid (juice or...

4 Nov 2011

acai

what is acai? Acai is a dark purple little berry that grows wild in palm trees all over the Amazon region in Brasil. The fruit has a big seed in the middle, and a thin skin around that is used to make the pulp, and juice. acai benefits Acai is a powerhouse when it comes to nutrition. Some of the most notable benefits are: antioxidants: This fruit has the highest antioxidant score in any fruits or vegetables known to man....

2 Nov 2011

frozen acai

Since we get a lot of questions about why people can’t get fresh acai berries, I decided to write this post about frozen acai, which really is the closest you can get to fresh acai. First and foremost it is important for consumers (and even industry people) to understand that acai isn’t a berry like blue berry or strawberry, full of “meat”. The fruit is about the size of a blue berry, but with a big difference: the seed. The...

28 Oct 2011

what is the acai berry

What is the acai berry? The acai berry is a dark purple little berry that grows in palm berry trees in the Amazon rain forest along the inundated areas, by the rivers. The acai berry grows in a long and skinny palm tree that grows up to 30 to 40 ft high. The berry grows in a few different states in the Brazilian Amazon: Para, Amazonas, Maranhao, Acre, Amapa, Roraima, and Rondonia. The fruit grows wild and the typical season...

26 Oct 2011

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...

26 Oct 2011

acai pronunciation

Acai pronunciation (or how to pronounce acai) is definitely on of the most common questions we get when presenting our products, or when we do acai berry demonstrations. Because of the “ç” (cedilha) and the “í” (acento agudo) of the word acai (spelled açaí in Brazilian Portuguese) it is very hard for Americans (or non-Brazilians) to spell or pronounce it correctly. Little Portuguese class can help! The “ç” (cedilha) in Portuguese sounds like a combination of two “s”, something like...

22 Oct 2011