The Acai Berry Story
If Acai is not processed and freeze dried within just one day of being picked, it will perish and be useless. Yes only people living in the Brazillion area can actually eat the berries, which makes me want to travel to Brazil!
You can find it growing on palm tree's, which the harvesters actually climb up to collect the acai berry. These trees can grow up to 75 feet high, and have a beautiful appearance.
The Berries you'll find on this palm tree, are the same size as a Blueberries, dark rich purple in color, with a hint of chocolate in taste. It has become known as a acai superfood.
But what makes it different from your average berry, is that it contains lots of amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and over 30 times the antioxidants of red wine! Just amazing health properties. It has the highest antioxidant score of all the different fruits and vegetables in the entire world.
You may have heard about the theory that your body needs lots of alkaline foods in order to reach optimum health. This is also very alkaline and helps the body detoxify from all the toxins which get stored. You'd be hard pressed to meet people who aren't filled with toxins and poison in their blood stream.. sad but true!
Now one of the reasons interest in the acai bery has grown so rapidly, is really because the bestselling author and doctor perricone has said its "the number 1 superfood in the entire world" which is a pretty radical (but true) statement! He then was interviewed on the oprah winfrey show about this.
You might say that calling acai the most poweful superfood in the world sounds like a big stretch, but its actually based on science and research. Its now widely considered to have the best overal nutritional value, of any fruit on this planet. Which is really something to celebrate.
Additional Acai Berry Benefits
Not only can you benefit in a nutritional sense, but you'll also find yourself looking younger, healthier, and feeling more alive from taking proper doses of this food. Often times, we talk about all kinds of technical health benefits, without addressing the fact that you'll simply feel better by eating foods such as acai berry.With all the benefits of acai, you would think it tastes awful. It tastes very good, and goes well with yogurt and cereal! The wall street journal recently reported how the berry is now replacing the popular wheatgrass all across the country.
The only catch about acai berry is that its not cheap. Remember to try your free sample before heading to the local health food store and spending $40 bucks or so. After taking it for several days, you should really start to feel better. There are no reported side effect.
Acai Berry is only 10% pulp, and the other 90% cannot be eaten, so harvesters must seperate these too parts, and immediately freeze the good stuff. Don't forget it only lasts one day after being picked. Luckily we can still get the stuff freeze dried, which is nearly as potent. You'll have to travel to brazil for the complete experience! The people living there in the amazon are very well aware of its healing and nutritional propeties, its practically a legend in brazil.
How can Acai Berry fight Cancer?
Nutritionally, the healthy acai berry contains more antioxidants then any other substance on the planet! Much disease comes from free radicals attacking our bodies, which is a scientific fact. Its actually antioxidants which protect us and fight away these free radicals, and therefore this fights cancer, but is no miracle cure.Prevention is the best medicine its been said, so taking acai on a regular basis will simply help boost your nutrition, energy, libido, focus, and protection against disease.
7 Good Reasons to eat Acai Berries
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Another benefit is that this helps alkalize your body, and many researchers and scientists are now saying that disease has a very difficult time surviving in an alkaline environment. I believe there will never officially be declared a "Cure for Cancer", simply because nothing will ever have a 100% cure rate for something like that. Infact there's many things today which show great success, but they are only ignored and laughed at. Don't let people turn you away from something so beneficial to your health like the acai berry.
Is this just a health craze?
Thats a good question. The answer is no, the healthy properties have been known by natives of the amazon for hundreds of years. Now that you understand how the acai is harvested, its clear why it hasn't been exposed here. Up until the 1990's the techniques of freeze drying were undeveloped, and so getting acai safely over long distances wasn't even really possible. Considering it spoils within one day of being picked, its amazing that we can actually experience this. Not like the natives to that area, but we're still fortunate!
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