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Friday, January 2, 2009

Top 5 Things You Need to Know About the Acai Berry

By Paula Franks

If you watch TV or read news articles, you will most likely have come across the acai berry. You probably have heard that it is a very healthy fruit, much healthier than other berries, fruits or vegetables. The acai berry has been featured in many TV programs, magazines and news.

Although people are more interested in the acai berry now, the acai berry is not a kind of fruit. It has been around for a long time. Some say the acai berry is among the oldest berries. The reason people have not heard about it until recently is because it had been hidden away in swampy areas such as those in the Brazilian rain forest.

The acai berry grows on a branch of an acai palm tree called Euterpe oleracea, which is more commonly known as the acai palm tree. The acai palm is large and tall. Each tree can have as many as 25 trunks although it is not very common. An acai palm tree can be as tall as 25 meters.

Each acai berry tree has many branches dropping down from it like flowing ribbons. The branches cluttered together and on them are the acai berries. Each acai berry is on a branch is very close to the next berry on the same branch.

An acai berry looks very similar to a blueberry when ripe. The acai berry is round and small, similar to most berries. It is dark in color. Some are darker than others but most of them are dark purple in color. Each acai palm tree can produce as much as 20 kgs of acai berries a year.

The acai berry is edible. You can eat the whole berry as fruit or your can use the acai pulp in wines, liqueurs or as flavoring or colorant. Many people use the acai berry to make acai berry juice. There are many acai berry products nowadays that did not used to be on the market.

However, the most amazing thing about the acai berry that has caught most people's attention is its health benefits. The acai berry is very healthy to eat since it contains more nutrients and minerals than almost everything else. There have been many researches into the health properties of the acai berry and all of them are positive.

Since people now know that the acai berry is so healthy, the acai berry is more in demand now than ever. In the past, the acai berry used to be hand picked but nowadays many companies have them mass harvested to meet the world demand of the acai berry. Unfortunately, automation will always decrease the effectiveness of the end product. - 17269

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