Getting to Know the Acai Berry
People are more concerned about their health nowadays and it is hard to not hear of the acai berry when watching TV, listening to the news or reading magazines, especially if they are health related. If you watch Oprah or the Rachel Ray Show, you will hear of the acai berry and how great it is for your health.
Although you may have heard about the acai berry for the first time, this berry is not a new berry or organically created in a lab to contain amazing properties. The acai berry has been around for a very long time but it was tucked away deep in the rain forests, unknown to most people elsewhere in the world.
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.
Hanging from an acai palm tree are its many branches where acai berries are. The acai berries, in turn, hang down the branches like spiky, cluttered bushes. Each acai berry on a branch is right next to another 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.
People in Brazil love to eat fresh acai berry. The berry has many uses, not just as fruit but the acai pulp is great in wines, liqueurs or as food flavor or color. Some people use the acai berry to make other products such as acai berry juice, acai ice cream and acai cosmetics.
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.
Since people now know that the acai berry is so healthy, the acai berry is more in demand now than ever. In the past, the acai berry used to be hand picked but nowadays many companies have them mass harvested to meet the world demand of the acai berry. Unfortunately, automation will always decrease the effectiveness of the end product.