Acai Palm Berry – Just The Faqs

One? the newly discovered? of the stars? of? â Berry plants of antioxidants is the berry of the palm of ACAI (? of?'s ah-sigh-of Eea? of? â) (commercial center of Euterpe oleracea.) coming from the tropical regions of Central and South America. The genus is named after the muse Euterpe of Greek mythology and the plant family is Arecaceae. The vernacular name is sometimes called Assai Palm. Acai is known in the exotic functional food industry as proof rich, fruit (deep blue-purple) Dark pigmented delicious juice which is consumed in the bottles or combined with yogurt and other healthy foods to create smoothies. Where Palmas ACAI's growing and what are the characteristics of the berries? According to Wikipedia, the ACAI is a genus of the natural history of 25-30 species of palms and tropical South America to central, from Belize to Brazil and Peru. It grows mainly along rivers, in floodplains and wetlands. Palmas are high, slender, attractive growing 15-30 m tall, pine forests with leaves up to 3 m long. The fruit is a berry small, round, black-purple similar in size to a grape. They are produced in branched clusters of 700-900 fruits to be chosen by hand. Although their appearance is similar to that of a grape, the ACAI has a smaller amount of pulp and a single large seed about? of? 7A 10 millimeters in diameter. What is on the ACAI that has caught the attention of consumers? Besides its deep blue color and taste delicious (allusion to the chocolate), preliminary analysis of the ACAI demonstrations as one of the nutrient content? s of? Tropentag most nutritious fruits and certainly an exceptional source of antioxidant pigments. What foods are on the ACAI berry? Although data have not been published or have been verified independently, the research shows early ACAI are rich in vitamins A, B and C, minerals (particularly iron and calcium), dietary fiber and protein. It also contains an omega-3 fatty acid, a beta-sitosterol (a phytosterol which inhibits the formation of cholesterol in humans) and essential amino acids. Oleic acid, an omega-9 fatty acid found in virgin olive oil is particularly rich in ACAI. What about the antioxidant ACAI? A manufacturer of ACAI indicates on its website that the ACAI has three times the antioxidant strength of blueberries and eight times that of strawberries. The probable source of such unusual antioxidant power would come from the dark blue pigments found in? of? â the skin of the ACAI berry large class of flavonoids called anthocyanins and particularly from two (cyanidin-3-glucoside and cyanidin-3-rutinoside), which are the main pigments isolated from ACAI. What does the medical research says about the characteristics of health ACAI? As a relatively new discovery, ACAI has appeared on the online database of the U.S. National Library of of? of? of the PubMedâ? of? of Medicineâ only since 2004. Since then, five reports are listed (June 2006). Three studies analyzed the antioxidant characteristics of ACAI, showing its powerful effects against specific oxidizing radicals such as peroxynitrite and peroxyl's. The one interesting finding was that the total antioxidant capacity of ACAI could be seen in only 10% of the identified anthocyanins. This find indicates that the ACAI is loaded with other, yet unidentified phytochemicals, antioxidants. In 2006, a study at the University of Florida showed that antioxidants could induce the ACAI faster death (apoptosis) of leukemia cells in vitro. This preliminary investigation indicates a potential anticancer effect of anthocyanins and other pigments, as shown for North American dark berries like blueberries and black raspberries. With the beginning of the investigation to demonstrate the advantages ACAI why not introduce this tasty berry into your diet? Reading * National Library of E.E.U.U. of medicine, PubMed, http://pubmed.gov * Acai Products, Sambazon, http://www.sambazon.com/acai.asp?pg=13 * Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acai Copyright 2006 Berry Health Inc.