6
Jul

The Acai Berry Juice and Acai powder has one of the utmost ORAC scores you can uncover.  The incredible Amazon Acai berry juice packs a blow of nutrients and omegas. Now you may have been frustrating to find the best Acai juice or looking for reviews and information.

Only buy the Acai berry products after reading no hype reviews and avoiding Acai berry scams. You may have tried several other brands of the Acai juice and find this simply the best Acai product available. A pure Acai berry product is hard to find and you have found a product that is kosher, organic and the purest available.  This Acai juice or puree is processed at the source- the Amazon jungles.

Is your Acai berry product processed with the Acai seed or just the Acai pulp and skin? The seed is about 95% of the Acai fruit the rest is pulp or Acai juice. Why be eating the seed when you can be enjoying the nutritional benefits of the Acai fruit which are the pulp and the skin. If you can find the best quality Acai products available that is processed at the source without the seed you owe it to yourself to get the best Acai juice, powder and capsules. The Acai juice needs to be chilled once opened but it is an enjoyable way to have all the fun of the Acai berries.

The Acai berry fruit is very popular and is considered one of the best energy drinks by many athletes and superstars.  With 10 times more antioxidants that grapes, double as many as blueberries as and even more than pomegranate.  Athletic trainers know the value of antioxidants and supplements that provide protein and long-lasting energy.  The Acai fruit is considered one of the best natural protein drinks and the fruit is grown on a palm tree local to tropical Central and South America

The Acai berry is new to the supplement market.  Brazilian Acai fruit is often made into Acai juice, freeze dried Acai powder or Acai capsules and Acai pills. The local Amazon indigenous and population have been using this as a drink and in recipes for years. The Acai berry flavor is pleasing and you may find that adding it to recipes can add a distinctive flavor.  Adding freeze dried Acai powder to yogurt or smoothie is a treat giving it a taste similar to blueberry’s with a touch of chocolate.  You can also shower the Acai powder on cereal, blend it in milk or add it to hot water for a stimulating tea.

The natives of the Amazonian tropical forest are very familiar with the Acai berries they have used them as a staple in their diet for hundreds of years. These marvelous small dark purple Acai berries look similar to small purple blueberries and are harvested from the Acai palm which grows in the swampy regions of the floodplains in the area.

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7
Apr

The Acai palm tree is a limb of the genus Euterpe, which includes 7 species of palms local to tropical Belize south to Brazil and Peru, growing mostly in floodplains and swamps.

The intense pigmentation of the Acai berry has led to several tentative studies of its anthocyanins, a cluster of polyphenols that give the dark color to the Acai berries, other fruits and vegetables and are high in antioxidant score under active study for possible health benefits. A fresh study using a uniform freeze-dried Acai berry fruit pulp and skin powder found the overall Anthocyanin levels to be 319 mg per 100 grams (Schauss et al., 2006a). Cyandin 3-glucoside and Cyanidin 3-rutinoside are key Acai berry anthocyanins.

Twelve other flavonoids-like elements were additionally found in the Schauss et al. 2006 a research, including homoorientin, orientin, taxifolin deoxyhexose, isovitexin and scoparin, as well as numerous unknown flavonoids. Proanthocyanidins, another set of polyphenolic compounds rich in antioxidant value, summed 1,289 mg per 100 grams of the freeze-dried Acai berry pulp or Acai berry powder, with a profile similar to that of blueberries. Resveratrol was also found to be present in the Acai berry in this study, though at low levels of 1.1 microgram per gram.

Many studies have measured the antioxidant potency of the Acai berry. Sorry to say, but the sources of the Acai berry and the preparations of the Acai berry extracts e.g., Acai berry juice, Acai powder and others reporting the results varying. A latest report using a standardized ORAC analysis on a freeze-dried Acai berry powder found that this Acai berry powder showed a high antioxidant effect against peroxyl radical (1027 micromole TE/g). This is something like 10 times more than low bush blueberry or cranberry on a dry weight basis (Wu, 2004). The ORAC value for the freeze-dried Acai berry powder was considerably higher than when other techniques of drying the Acai berry fruit were tested. Other powders with ORAC values this high consist of cinnamon (2675 micromole TE/g), cloves (3144 micromole TE/g), turmeric (2001 micromole TE/g) and dried oregano (1593 micromole TE/g).

The freeze-dried Acai berry powder also showed very high activity against superoxide, with a SOD test level of 1614 units/g. Superoxide is believed to be the first producer of other more powerful reactive oxygen species, and thus defense against it is very important as a first line of protection for the body. Moreover, antioxidant molecules from the freeze-dried Acai berry powder were shown to really enter freshly obtained human neutrophils and slow down oxidation induced by hydrogen peroxide, even at very low concentrations of the Acai berry powder including 0.1 part per trillion. A previous story using total oxygen scavenging ability test also found that Acai berry has tremendously high antioxidant effects against peroxyl or free radical, as well as a high competency against peroxynitrite, and a fair capacity against hydroxyl radical when compared with other fruit and vegetable juices.

Only 10% of the Acai berry’s high antioxidant results could be explained by its Anthocyanin substance indicating that other polyphenols throw in most of the antioxidant activity in the Acai berry fruit. Similarly found that that percentage of the hydrophilic ORAC levels to the total phenolics in the freeze-dried Acai berry powder was 50, a higher value than the typical fruit and vegetable ratio of 10[reference required].

They also utilized the “Total Antioxidant” or TAO test to distinguish the “fast-acting” (measured at 30 seconds) and “slow-acting” (measured at 30 minutes) antioxidant levels present in freeze-dried Acai berry powder. The Acai berry powder was found to have a higher “slow-acting” antioxidant constituents, suggesting a more persistent antioxidant effect compared to “fast-acting” components.

The Antioxidant values of the seeds of the Acai berry fruit have also been reported. In the same way to the Acai berries, the antioxidant power of the Acai berry seeds was strongest against peroxyl radicals, at a concentration in the same order of scale as the Acai berries. The Acai berry fruit seeds had a more powerful antioxidant effect than the Acai berries for peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radicals, although still less than its effects against peroxy radical. The outcomes of this study were not linear based on the concentration of the Acai seeds that were used. The authors propose the future use of the Acai seeds (a by-product of juice making) for antioxidant benefits such as extending the shelf-life of the Acai berry.

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18
Feb

Well, today’s article is not about the health benefits of Acai berry, its pulp and so on, rather it’s all about the Acai berry seeds or pit. Today when looking for new information on the Acai berry fruit I came across unique but amazing Acai beery news on its sees that how they can help us in household savings.

The Brazilian Acai berry is small in size with only 10 % edible pulp and remaining 90% is made up of seeds or pits which just like Acai berry tastes awesome. In Brazil people normally don’t eat Acai seeds they use it for reproducing the Acai berries or mostly as a livestock food especially for pigs, they even use it in their jewelries. Like Brazil in USA too product developed from the Acai berry seeds or pit often labeled as endocarp are often not recommended and avoided.

Amazon palm trees of Acai berry produces fruit twice an year it means we may have tons of seeds, there is nothing to useless on this earth and the same I found in my new Acai findings for its seeds. The recent Acai news is that its seeds or pit can be used as fuel in our home stoves to produce energy; they can be burnt in wood pellet stoves if we do have them in bulk; it will replace the either the woods in these stoves which will cut down the trees cutting and save the environment from pollution, there is possibility that future advancements in technology will made it possible to use the Acai berry seeds in traditional gas stoves as biomass and save the gas for other commercial purposes. However these are just possibilities no proof, the person who wrote the actual blog was burning some cherry pits but not the Acai berry pits, he was working on the possibilities if Acai berry seeds can produce enough energy. I’ll keep an eye on this and see if something positive comes out of this.

If this is really possible to use the Acai berry seeds or pit as biomass to produce energy then it would really be a miracle of the Acai berry and it will serve the consumers as well as the country.

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