Archive for October, 2008

Acai

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Acai is a small berry with dark purple drupe. Acai is commonly pronounced as “a-sigh-ee”.  Acai also known as Acai fruit is supposed to be originated from one of the several palms in South America. It has a large seed and minimum amount of pulp and now this fruit is widely used as an important ingredient in energy boasting juices, ice creams and many antioxidants.


The Acai fruit is known for its high concentration of antioxidants. A major portion of Acai fruit is harvested for their juices.  This juice comes into markets with different names such as, Acai Juice, Acai Drink, Acai Berry Juice, Acai fruit juice, Acai berry drinks and few more. For over many years Acai has been taken as a fruit which not only boast energy, but also known as stamina builder. The taste of Acai fruit is sometimes compared with the combination of ripe berries and bittersweet chocolate.

Acai fruit is famous for several of its properties. It boasts up the energy 10 times more than the energy derived from grapes and 2 times more than derived from blue berries. Acai reduces the chances of physical injuries and speeds up the recovery. It fights against the cancerous cells in the body. Acai fruit can also be taken as multi vitamin as it contains several important minerals and provides almost all vital vitamins needed by our body. Acai also helps to reduce diabetes. Acai fruit is a very powerful dietary supplement that helps you to reduce weight. It also reduces the chances of heart attack and improves the overall physical fitness and strength.

The marketers of Acai fruit are representing it as a super fruit with some good reasons.  Acai fruit is proving good in reducing leukemia as it generates self response against leukemia cells.  In this modern time of mass media and glamour where every human wishes to look younger and fit, Acai Berry is again proving its worth by delaying the effects of aging on human bodies.

Acai berries are produced around the beaches of Amazon River in Brazil. For centuries Brazilians are using the Acai berry fruit in the treatment of skin disorders and Brazilian Acai has taken over the places of rice, bread and milk. Brazilian Acai is equally liked by both young and old as a super healthy drink.

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Monavie Acai

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The Acai Fruit pronounced as “ah-saw-ee” has its deep roots of consumption among traditional Brazilian tribes. Brazilians are using Acai for medical reasons, health benefits and a part of their daily diet plan. In 1990s Brazilian Acai production was adversely effected as many Acai harvesters started to cut down the palm trees to sell wood and timber to live on. Brazilian Acai came out of its motherland to the western world in early 2000s. It was the time when different multinational companies discovered Acai as a great food and invested into new Acai health food business; they invested in different lines of Acai business. Some companies started exporting freeze-dried Acai berry fruit to the west, while some who had strong financial position encouraged Brazilians to harvest Acai on mass scale rather than cutting down the palm trees by sharing a percentage of profit from their Acai business.

Though Sambazon Acai Company was the pioneer to bring Acai into USA in early 2000 still there are some good fast growing Acai companies who are giving tough time to Sambazon Acai business. They more or less compete with the Sambazon Acai products. MonaVie is one of the strong competitors of Sambazon Acai. MonaVie is a networked company which sells health drinks to USA people through a network of Acai health product distributors. Daillin Larsen – health food marketing expert founded the MonaVie with an idea in his mind to design a health drink with unique properties which are not offered by his other heath drink manufacturers. Daillin formed the MonaVie to design a health drink based on purest Brazilian Acai berry benefits. Some of the MonaVie Acai products are known as MonaVie Acai Drink or MonaVie Acai Juice, MonaVie Pulse and MonaVie Pulse Gel. Currently MonaVie is selling its Acai Juice in USA, Brazil, Canada, Australia and Japan with an expansion plan to the worldwide markets.  MonaVie Acai Juice is claimed to be of best quality and highly nutrient health product available in the Acai market.

The Brazilian Acai berry is the heart of MonaVie Acai drink. Each MonaVie Acai Juice is extracted from the pure Acai berries coming from the Palm Trees in Brazil. The MonaVie Acai berries are rich in antioxidants with essential fatty acids, provide lipids and Vitamin B& C more then found in milk.  MonaVie Acai berries are harvested around the beaches of Amazon River in Brazil and a special preservation method is used for the preservation of natural benefits in the MonaVie Acai berries.  One of the best processing methods is used in the making of MonaVie Acai powder which contains the all nutrient benefits that can only be found in pure Brazilian Acai berries.  Each and every bottle of MonaVie Acai juice is tested and tasted before and after hitting the USA market. MonaVie Acai products are taken by health conscious people; both men and women over 30 who are victims of high cholesterol level, heart patients can consume the MonaVie Acai products as a part of their diet plan.

Many Acai products are now reaching into the Acai health products market; therefore for a new Acai customer it’s not easy to find a pure Acai product from which he or she gets the maximum Acai benefits. MonaVie Acai is the right choice for them to have a great beginning with the best quality Acai product. MonaVie Acai berries are frozen and stored shortly after they are picked up from the palm trees rather than using and artificial heating process to freeze-dry the Acai berries. MonaVie Acai drink price is a little high and sometimes goes out of the purchasing power of common customers but this high price is offset against the MonaVie Acai juice which comes with a blend of 19 other health fruits juices which makes MonaVie Acai the best and the healthiest product available in the market.

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Phytochemical Composition and Pigment Stability of Açai

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

This is a great article on acai and we found on Google Scholar that relates to the phytochemical composition of acai. It even talks about the overall antioxidant capacity of acai:

Acai

There are a lot of scholarly articles and studies being done on acai these days, however the medical community is usually slow to support these types of super fruits.

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Does anyone know where to buy whole acai berries?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Looking to buy the acai berries in its whole form not the juice, does anyone know where I can buy them?
As most come from South America, I would try the local health food stores. It could be a few years before fresh or frozen are availalbe, they are very perishable and the juice concentrate use in the blended juice is pretty popular, and on there own they are quiet tart.

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Acai Berry Shown To Destroy Cancer Cells in UofF Study

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

In a recent study done at the University of Florida, the antioxidants in the acai Berry were shown to destroy cultured human cancer cells. This study was one of the first to investigate the benefits of the acai Berry.


Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in Gainesville, FL — AP photo/University of Florida / Thomas Wright

It is important to realize the study was not intended to show whether or not acai berries could prevent leukemia in people. However, they were encouraged by their findings because as Stephen Talcott, assistant professor at the UorF said, “we are encouraged by the findings, however. Compounds that show good activity against cancer cells in a model system are most likely to have beneficial effects in our body.”

Acai is said to have an extremely high level of antioxidants when compared to other fruits. Brazilians have used acai berries to treat digestive orders in skin conditions for years. Companies to sell acai products say that it can help consumers lose weight, lower cholesterol, and gain energy. However, Talcott said most of those claims have not been tested scientifically.

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Acai Juice & Weight Loss

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Nature seems to have a cure for everything if you can find it; the antioxidant properties (and a host of others) of acai juice for instance are becoming well known around the world. Acai juice weight loss products are readily available in many forms and considered by many as one of the best products to take to shed excess calories.

It has a wide range of benefits for the human metabolism but first and foremost, it has great anti-aging properties, accelerating cell regeneration and slowing the oxidation process in the system. With weight loss however, both the laxative effects and anti-oxidant abilities are used to help improve the metabolism. The product increases the metabolic rate and the number of calories burnt so less fatty tissue forms.

Despite the success of acai juice weight loss products, they cannot work on their own so the user must be responsible for what food they eat and any exercise they perform. Many people seem to think that its use will solve all their weight problems but the fact you are taking the product implies you are trying to improve your health by eating more healthily.

For the best results when using acai juice; you are advised to use it prior sleep when the metabolism is slowing down. There is generally an acclimatization period of a couple of days when using this product, during which time the user may feel some stomach and bowel discomfort but it shouldn’t take too long before this vanishes. Such acai juice weight loss effects are normal, particularly if you haven’t used the plant before as the body adjusts to the accelerated metabolism that eliminates the toxins much faster, before they pass into the blood. e.

Extracts from the ginseng root are often mixed with acai juice as combined; the two prove to be more effective. The ginseng extracts add essential vitamins and supplements to the products and have been used in china for millennia.

Increasing the energy and vitality level of the user, ginseng is a valuable addition to acai juice products especially for people trying to get back to what should be their normal weight. So far no adverse side-effects have been discovered with tests of up to half a year showing good safety levels for products containing acai juice and ginseng.

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Where does Robeks get it’s frozen acai for the acai bowls?

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Is it pure acai in ice cream form? Where do they get it from? I am tired of spending $35.00 a day for 12 scoops! Where can I get it wholesale or at least in bulk? Everythings expensive here in Hawaii (milk=$8/gal, gas=$4.30/gal), but you shouldn’t have to go broke over berries!

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