Left Behind

Getting acai berries from the Amazon basin to your house is a bit of challenge: they degrade so quickly that transporting as they are is completely unfeasible. So distributors have turned acai into a variety of different forms in order to ensure its safe passage.

The form of acai that you can buy in shops (and over the Internet) that maintains the antioxidant properties of the Acai berry is acai preserves. Acai preserves are essential just squashed acai fruit combined with a little bit of natural cane sugar as an accelerant. The acai preserves sold in some of the stores (online or off) are up to 99% full of acai fruit. That’s a pretty impressive statistic, and when you compare it with some of the blended juices, or even with the pills and powders that you see advertised all around, you can see that acai preserves are a great alternative.

Inside the acai preserves jar you will see a rich purple color substance which is a thick sold, puree-like texture. This, my friends, is just squashed acai with as little processing as you will see. The lack of processing means that acai preserves preserve any nutrients and goodness that made you want to take acai in the first place!

You Are What You Eat

I see a training twice a week. The last time I was in to see her couldn’t stop talking about the health benefits of acai berries. How they are the #1 super food on the market today. How they will help to take the weight off. How one pure acai berry can help cure a multiple of health problems. She explained the reason why they are so powerful is because they have the highest amount of antioxidant. Antioxidants are known for protecting the body from internal damages eating the wrong types of foods can cause. You know what they say, “You are what you eat!”

Acai at Your Local Grocer
Acai berries are found in the Amazon forest and have been named the #1 super food among the medical profession. Each berry has more antioxidants than 2 blueberries or 10 red grapes. However, acai berries are very perishable, and only last up to 24 hours after they are picked. In order to purchase pure acai berries you would have to eat them right off the tree. Since most of the general population doesn’t have this luxury, they have developed a way to transport them for mass production. This is why we are now able to purchase acai products from our neighbor grocer.