Selecting Acai Berry Products
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The Acai berry is one of the most potent super foods you can eat. The health benefits of the acai berry are now well documented as it has received more press coverage lately. There are some things you need to be aware of before you start to buy products with acai in them. This article will provide you with tips for buying acai berry juice. What’s so special about the acai berry? If you know anything about the blueberry, you will know that it is a highly recommended super food because of its powerful antioxidant qualities. If you eat blueberries on a regular basis, you will get sick less and your skin will be healthier. There are several more benefits of eating blueberries. What does this have to do with the acai berry? The antioxidant value of the acai is 2-3 times that of your blueberries. Now, you can begin to see why this small fruit has received more press coverage. There’s even a business opportunity available promoting acai berry juice. Because the acai berry is so powerful and it promises several health benefits, there are many companies out there trying to cash in on this new super food craze. And the acai is included. Go to your grocery store and try and find a product with acai juice in it. Try not to gasp out loud when you see the prices. The best products are not cheap. If you want to buy some, you should not be cheap either. You should not be looking for the lowest price you can get. If you want the best foods to eat, you’re not going to find it at the cheapest prices. And even if you did, you will not be getting the full benefits of the acai berry. The berry’s concentration levels in a lower priced product will probably by minimal just so the manufacture can label it as “Acai berry juice.” You want to look for 100% acai. This will probably run you about $1 an ounce. So for 32 ounces, you’re going to spend about $32, unless you buy it in bulk. If you want a pill form, you want to look for 100% acai berry extract. If you do not buy products with 100% acai, you might as well throw your money into another tank of gas. You’ll be wasting your money. In order to enjoy the benefits of the best superfoods to eat, you want to spend more for the best products. To live healthy and slow down the aging process, you need to incorporate superfoods like the acai berry in your diet. Learn about more superfoods at http://www.allsuperfoods.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Adam_Tijerina
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Acai Berry Products and High Potency
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History and Uses of Acai Berries
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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 quickly 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 Wins for New Flavor Idea for Jelly Belly Bean
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The tallies are done and Jelly Belly Candy Company announced that fans voted acai berry , an exotic Amazon rainforest fruit, as the best idea for a new flavor. Almost 200,000 suggestions for new jelly bean flavors were submitted to the contest, and the public voted for the best original flavor concept at http://www.DreamBeanContest.com.
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Extreme Acai Berry News
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Acai berry exposed is hard hitting and worth every second you read this. When there is good money to be made on a product several snake-y scam artists, companies and distributors will by waiting for your money. Acai berry like all nutritional supplements is a whole food product which should be taken in raw form. Any time you heat, dry, freeze any product you are going to lose some of its effectiveness. Basically if it looks like watery Cool-aid or in some sort of pill/capsule form the integrity of the product could be compromised. Let me save you some time and energy when doing your research for acai berry supplements and all the related acai products. Everybody is going to tell you that their product is the best on the market. It doesn’t matter if you stumble upon a company site, distributor site, nutritional sales sites, all of them do the same thing. Red FLAG: “we are the best”. Be careful when you see this. Acai berry exposed is going to teach you one important lesson you should have already learned in your life. Whole Food Supplements like acai will work great for some people, work alright for others and then you also have the crowd that calls it a scam or ripoff. Who do you believe? All of them, because they are all correct. That’s the hard fact of nutritional supplements like acai berry. What out when someone says “We’ve Got the Greatest…….” Like I said before, you’ll never know how good a product is for your body type until you try it. Recommendations from people you know and trust is good, but sometimes you need to simply give it a try on your own to find out if it indeed works. Make sense? What honestly scares me about some of the acai berry products on the market is the fact that: # some products are extremely diluted, raw acai berry is thicker than water # some products do not contain enough acai berry to make any type of nutritional difference at all # some products have so much stuff added it makes you wonder why, until you see what’s added I love to read testimonials on the product and try to find someone who might fit my body profile. If they do fit my body profile I will give that more weight than others who do not fit my body type. If a product has independent written reviews I love to read all of them to make sure people are not giving you some hype job. If they don’t have any negative comments, I give that a lower weight, because you should have already learned that some products work better for different body types. Right? Here is what I found out about acai berry: # some say the taste is awful(something was added) # some say it taste’s like cool-aid (red flag, it’s been watered down) # others say they can tolerate it # some love the taste of acai berry juice Once upon a time I was concerned with people telling me a certain nutritional supplement tasted awful. Then I learned something from a good friend of mine. If they don’t like the taste they will not continue to purchase that particular product. So, you can either mix it with something or you simply look for the next product. The flip side to an awful tasting product is other people will say it is tolerable, especially since it works so well for them. I can tell you this: I have a lot of friends who are drinking acai berry supplements and it shows. The nutritional benefits of acai are remarkable especially when friends start noticing. The acai drinks these folks are consuming sold me. But I did do my research first and ran across a lot of junk before I found the product that I believed would work best for me. You should be doing the same thing. Acai berry is all over the internet and you have your pick of over 100 different named products. The main competition for acai berry is probably mangosteen and goji fruit. All three are the best on the market if you believe those distributors selling their unique brand. What would be really cool is if you could find one specific product that contained all three ingredients (goji, mangosteen and acai berry) in it. Acai berry exposed has shared with you several facts that you should remember when looking for a good acai berry product. Watch out for the scam artists and ask a ton of questions. Remember the one important factor is the percentage of acai berry extract you will receive. If it is not 100% then run the other way. Bottom Line: You will never know which product is the best without giving it a try. Anything in it’s pure form is the best, but if you can add other ingredients in their pure form, you might have yourself a physical and financial winner.
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Growing blueberries and acai berries
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Q: Where can i get seeds to grow blueberries and acai berries?
A: I would not grow blueberries from seeds. Go to a garden center and buy the shrubs. Seeds will take years to bear fuit, if they survive. You can also order from a garden catalog-Burpee, Stokes Bros., Beaver Creek, White Flower Farms, and Seeds of Change are U.S. companies I have bought from. For the acai berries, look online for a rare/exotic plant dealer, and again, try to buy the plants. Before you plant ANYTHING make sue you know your USDA growing zone. Pick varieties that will survive the weather in your area. Also, it’s worth buying a soil testing kit to make sure you have the right acid level, drainage, etc. for the plants you want to grow. If you don’t you’ll have to amend the soil. (It’s a lot of work to do, but it will make youe plants more successful.) Good luck!
What Is Acai Antioxidant?
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by John Janson
Quadrillions of reactive oxygen species bombard our bodies each day to produce harmful effects in the body including aging and cell death. Extensive research found that the reactive species can be controlled by antioxidants found in numerous plants and fruits. One of the fruits rich in antioxidants is the acai berry, a berry found in the bushes of Brazil. This berry was found to have antioxidant contents twice that of blueberries. Because a cup of blueberries contains as much as 13,000 antioxidants, then doing some calculations would show the antioxidant content of one cup of acai berries to be more than 26,000. So what are acai antioxidants?
The acai berry contains millions of various antioxidants and vitamins that provide humans with a single food source rich in nutrients. These antioxidants are mostly flavonoids, which have been proven to work hard in searching for the reactive oxygen species that destroy cells and tissues and cause aging. Studies have also demonstrated that these flavonoids from the acai berry stop the free radicals that target the cells of the blood vessels to cause flow constriction and high pressure of the blood. These flavonoids also reduce the process of LDL oxidation to help maintain a healthy heart. Omega 6 and omega 9 found in acai berries also help in maintaining a good cholesterol ratio.
Acai antioxidants also include anthocyanins, which are the berry’s coloring material and act as a potent antioxidant at the same time. These anthocyanins, along with other antioxidants, search the cells for potentially harmful reactive oxygen species that cause skin and eye problems, dental health disorders, and urinary tract infections.
A lot of studies confirmed these acai antioxidants to be working in teams that help re-energize one another to work more effectively. Cell imbalance and death are the mains causes of aging. The antioxidants in acai work hard to promote good platelets that would help in wound repair and act to reduce inflammation. Because cell death is minimized, the process of aging is also effectively slowed down. Another good antioxidant is reservatrol, which also helps prevent cell aging.
Vitamin C, a naturally good antioxidant, acts on collagen cells to allow healthy hairs and cartilage to develop. Some of the acai antioxidants also help in boosting the body’s sustained energy and help stop fatigue. This is because the biochemical niacin helps produce adenosine triphosphate, which is the natural fuel that the cells need to go about with regeneration. The body’s other vitamin cycles can largely benefit from niacin, which also helps in producing coenzymes needed for energy production in the cells. Certain vitamin B antioxidants also hasten the conversion of carbohydrates to simple sugars that are necessary for the body’s energy storage.
More important benefits of these acai antioxidants have extended to the body’s neurological system. The reactive oxygen species that create problems in the nerve cells are mapped out to allow normal functioning of the neuronal transmission processes. Even bones have benefited from these antioxidants as these get markedly improved bone mineral density.
Truly, the acai berry works wonders in helping the body stay healthy.
About the author: The next time you pick up an acai berry, remember the goodness of Acai Antioxidants. You may also read more on other benefits of antioxidants at http://www.whatisantioxidant.com/.
Does anyone know where to buy whole acai berries?
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Q: Looking to buy the acai berries in its whole form not the juice, does anyone know where I can buy them?
A: 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 quite tart.
does the Acai Berry actually work for weight loss?
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I got an e-mail for trying this Extreme Acai Berry supplement stuff, has anyone ever tried it before, and what does it really do, does it actually work? and how fast does it work?
Acai berries have far more antioxidants than any other fruit. Even more than blueberries! Besides that, the nutrients in Acai berry supplements help many other diseases and maladies, from diabetes to arthritis to blood clotting. It really is a worthwhile supplement to add to your daily nutrition. As far as the Acai berry assisting with fat loss, Acai can be a great weight loss aid. The berry’s natural concoction of essential fatty acids, fiber, photosterols and amino acids work together to help your body burn fat more efficiently, process food more quickly and shed the unwanted pounds that you’d like to lose. The fatty acids and amino acids aid in both muscle development and proper digestion, both of which are essential to fat loss. The fiber helps your body to move food out of your system quicker and also to help you feel full, as do fatty acids. Photosterols help fortify your digestive tract, moving waste materials out and absorbing nutrients more efficiently. I wouldn’t say that Acai berries are the magic weight loss pill, but I would say that Acai could be an important ingredient in your vitamin / supplement / weight loss arsenal.
