The Acai Berry To Become a Household Word

Recently, many people have ask what supplements am I familiar with, that not only promote good health, but also vitality and increase energy throughout the day. As a layman, I am not educated as a medical practitioner but do try to keep current with today’s trends and discoveries.

While managing my home based business, I come across thousands of new opportunities and products every day. Knowing the importance that besides financial security from building a home based business can provide, having the additional time to take care of one’s health is the second best benefit from the financial successes achieved working from home.

While sorting through the many programs, I stumbled across one product that really captured my attention immediately. The Acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) berry has been around for hundreds of years, and was not introduced to western civilization until well into the 1990’s. It’s origin is the amazon rain forest and because of its incredible health benefits, has been used by the several of the indigenous tribes of the Amazon, including the Shuar Tribe to name one, for curing various ailments and as a medicine, for centuries.

The Acai berry has natural anti-oxidant properties and is a natural cholesterol controller. When ingested, it promotes good cholesterol in the blood stream and reduce the bad, also aiding the immune system, in fighting infection, protecting the heart, and controls prostate enlargement. It provided a great source as an energy food for the native tribes-people who would traditionally produce it to distill a chocolate tasting type of wine, rich in minerals.

It is harvested from a palm that has a long thin trunk which shoots up to 25 meters high, Acai berries hang from ribbon like branches that spout from the top. The harvesting of the berries is fastly growing to be one of the most sought after cash crop in Brazil.Each Acai tree produces approximately 20 kilograms, of fruit a year, becoming the second most important product in terms of finance after wood forest products.

Once available to the western world, researchers discovered the Acai berry to promote well being. It has a vibrant taste, with a hint of chocolate, rich in proteins, fibre, vitamin E minerals, and essential omega oils to reduce bad cholesterol. Fast becoming known as the miracle fruit, acai berries also helps in preventing cancers due to the antioxidant properties, and are five times more potent, than the commonly used herbal therapy product, Gingko biloba. Acai Berry is known to harness the following properties: Antioxidant, Antibacterial, Anti-Inflammatory, Antimutagenic, cardiovascular system.

Acai berries contain plant sterols including beta-sitosterol. Today, sterols are being used to treat associated benign prostate dyperplasmia. These plant sterols have also been shown to help control cholesterol as well as act as precursors to many important substances produced by the body. Acai Berries are also a remarkable concentration of Antioxidants to help combat premature aging. Acai Berry is a dense source of a particular class of flavonoids called anthocyanins. THE ORAC VALUE of Acai Berry is higher than any other known edible berry on the planet!

Acai also contains an amazingly high concentration level of Antioxidants which contribute to combat premature aging. The proanthocyanidin contents in Acai Berries are 10 to 30 times the anthocyanins of red wine per volume. Although the French have a high fat diet, they have a low incidence of cardio vascular disease compared to the western countries. They contribute this factor to their consumption of red wine. Acai Berries can help promote a healthier cardio vascular system and digestive tract, because it’s synergy of onounsaturated (these are the healthy fats), dietary fiber and phytosterols.

Dr. Nicholas Perricone, M.D., a recognized authority on anti-aging, in his book “The Perricone Promise” named the Acai berry as being the World’s #1 Superfood. He also called the Acai berry one of the most nutritious and powerful anti-aging foods in the world today.

In more recent history, this product has been endorsed by the world famous talk show host, Oprah Winfrey and has been featured on her show for its incredible properties and potential benefit to our society.

Acai Berry: 3 Exciting Health Benefits That May Surprise You

A little berry from the Amazon Rainforest has recently skyrocketed in popularity here in America. Already legendary in Brazil for its nutritional benefits and healing ability, the acai berry has been touted by the media, most notably Dr. Perricone on the Oprah show, and dubbed “The worlds #1 superfood”.
A superfood is defined as any natural food that has an extraordinarily high nutrient content, and the acai berry certainly delivers. It contains healthy fats, iron, amino acids, and, most importantly, a remarkable amount of free radical fighting antioxidants.
These powerful antioxidants are the main reason for all the hoopla about the acai berry, and they are behind many of the more well known benefits of acai. Some of which include: More powerful immune system, increased energy and stamina, reduced pain and soreness, increased disease resistance, improved vision and more.
But there are three other benefits that aren’t as well known, but much more exciting. Let’s take a look…The Acai Berry Increases Libido
Interestingly enough, the acai berry is commonly referred to in Brazil as “Amazon Rainforest Viagra. Some doctors even recommend the acai berry to couples who are having difficulty getting pregnant.
Why is acai revered so much for increasing libido? Well, besides hundreds of years of “hands on testing”, Brazilian natives point to its powerful ability to increase energy and stamina. And, although it hasn’t been proven by science, they also insist that there’s something else in it that naturally boosts the sex drive.Acai Berry Controls Weight Gain

Combined with proper diet and exercise, the acai berry can be an excellent weight loss aid. It has a natural combination of antioxidants, essential fatty acids, amino acids, phytosterols, and amino acids that work together to help your body function better, process food easier, and burn fat more efficiently.
It’s also a near perfect fuel for the body and, as such, increases energy and stamina allowing you to work out harder and for longer periods of time. In fact, Jiu-jitsu practitioners and soccer players in Brazil often have a large meal of acai berry pulp before a competition. If it works for them, imagine how well it will keep you going on a treadmill.Acai Berry Fights Cancer

If you have any doubts about the power of the antioxidants in the acai berry, they’re about to be gone forever.
The University of Florida published a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that found that the acai berry triggered a self destruct response in up to 86% of human cancer cells. Yes, you read that right. The acai berry actually killed cancer cells in laboratory tests!
Of course there’s a lot of research to be done before anyone can say if the acai berry is a cure for cancer, but the study was certainly an eye opener to the amazing healing abilities of the acai berry. Hopefully, with the recent surge of interest in the acai berry, more and more exciting benefits will be found.

Acai Berries And Its Nutritional Benefits

What is acai berry? Acai berry is a tropical fruit from an acai palm, one of the 8 species of the palm genus Euterpe. This type of palm grows mainly on swamps and flood plains in the amazons of Brazil, some parts of Peru, and Central and South America. Euterpe palms are usually slim and tall, growing up to 15 to 30 meters in height, with leaves extending up to 3 meters long. Acai palms, scientifically known as Euterpe Oleracea, are famous for their highly nutritious fruit and superior hearts of palm. The acai berry fruit, which is purple, round-shaped fruit much like a grape fruit, contains high nutritional value that made acai berries popular worldwide.

What makes acai berries good? Research showed that acai berries contain the following properties: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and cardiovascular benefits. The antioxidant property of acai berry is 30 times greater than red grapes, and 10 to 20 times more anthocyanins than red wine. That makes acai berries more than 200% anti-oxidant than any other fruit and vegetable known; and the best known source of antioxidant so far. A university of Florida study in 2006 showed that the antioxidant property of acai berries destroyed cultured human cancer cells. Further studies revealed that it triggers a self-destruct response in up to 86% of tested leukemia cells.

Acai berries provide a good source of Vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C and Vitamin E. It also contain good amount of fiber that help promotes healthy digestive system and reduce the risks of developing some types of cancer.  In Brazil, acai berries are used to treat digestive disorder and some skin condition. Essential fatty acids; such as omega 3, 6 and 9; are also found which contribute to low incidence of cardiovascular disease for people who consume acai berries as part of their diet.

Acai berries are not recommended to be eaten directly. It should be processed first.  To maximize the full nutritional benefits acai berry, it should be freeze dried once it is picked. It loses its nutritional value every minute after picking the fruit. This is one quality aspect of different acai berry products, the method and means of freeze drying the fruit pulp of acai berries. 

Acai berry products have proliferated in the market in different forms; drinks, food supplements, and diet pills. They all differ in quality based on the amount of acai berry concentration in their product, as well as the method and technology used in processing them. The amount of nutrition incorporated on each product depends so much on the way they are processed. Be wary of poor quality products, massed-produce for the sake of profit. Make sure that the source of your acai berry products are verified companies well known for quality.