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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

How Legit is the Acai Berry?

By Larry Stevenson

If you watch TV or read news articles, you will most likely have come across the acai berry. You probably have heard that it is a very healthy fruit, much healthier than other berries, fruits or vegetables. The acai berry has been featured in many TV programs, magazines and news.

The acai berry is not a new type of fruit. It is not a hybrid berry and its nutrients and health benefits are natural, not artificially created. The acai berry is native in low-lit, swamp areas. There are a lot of acai berries in the Brazilian rain forest where it is hard to get to.

The acai berry grows on a branch of an acai palm tree called Euterpe oleracea, which is more commonly known as the acai palm tree. The acai palm is large and tall. Each tree can have as many as 25 trunks although it is not very common. An acai palm tree can be as tall as 25 meters.

Each acai berry tree has many branches dropping down from it like flowing ribbons. The branches cluttered together and on them are the acai berries. Each acai berry is on a branch is very close to the next berry on the same branch.

Most people know what a blueberry looks like. The acai berry is very similar to the blueberry in appearance because it is small and round. Its color is purple/black. Some acai berries are more black than purple whereas others are more purple than black. Each acai tree has many fruits and are capable of producing up to 20 kgs of acai berries.

Like most berries, the acai berry is edible. Many people eat the acai berry as fruit but some make use of other parts of the berry too. The acai pulp is where most of the nutrients are and it is very commonly used in wines, liqueurs, or as food flavoring or colorant. The acai berry has many uses so it is not surprising that there are many acai berry products around.

However, the most amazing thing about the acai berry that has caught most people's attention is its health benefits. The acai berry is very healthy to eat since it contains more nutrients and minerals than almost everything else. There have been many researches into the health properties of the acai berry and all of them are positive.

With so many acai berry research articles flying around, people are finding out more and more about how good of a fruit the acai berry really is. While most countries cannot get fresh acai berry, they can often buy acai berry juice, acai tea, acai pills and other acai berry based products that are good for their health. - 17274

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