Miracle Superfood - Acai Berry

Benefits and Uses of Acai BerryAn Acai Berry is an inch-sized fruit that looks like a grape but it is more of a dark purple color. The berry has a large seed inside and the juicy part takes only 10% of a whole fruit. Lots of Acai Berries have to be processed in order to make a little bit of a juice, but the Acai tree produces about 1800 berries, bringing its harvest twice a year.

An Acai palm tree grows in the Amazon rainforest of Central and Southern America.Local farmers produce Acai Berry juice and the Acai is used in cooking. For thousands of years, Native Brazilians used Acai Berry to prolong life. For the most part, the berry is being stored frozen after being picked: high concentration of fatty acids makes difficult to keep Acai fresh. Acai has many uses.

Supplement capsules use a powder form of Acai, pulp is added to make drinks. Seeds are used to feed livestock, as manure for plants and beads for jewelry.In Brazil, Acai Berry was discovered thousands of years ago to promote digestive health, insomnia, for diabetes, sexual health, prevent hearth disease.

Acai Berry contains vitamins A, B1, E, electrolytes, powerful antioxidants, floavonoids, proteins, dietary fiber, carbohydrates, linoleic acid, oleic acid. By the way, anthocyanin is same ingredient that gives red wine healthy properties having no alcohol and is known to relax muscles.