Acai Berry is everywhere! From capsules, pills, smoothies, juices, ice creams, and even jelly beans, Acai Berry is slowly taking over the food industry. In the tradition of strawberries, oranges, apples, and cherries, the Acai Berry is becoming one of the most common fruit food flavorings in the market today.
But remembering the key word “flavoring” is very important because “flavoring” is very different from “actual ingredient”. For instance, the Acai Berry won the popularity contest during the search for a new Jelly Belly jelly bean flavor.
This does not mean that the new Acai Berry jelly bean flavor is packed with potent antioxidants and dietary fibers like the actual fruit. It just means that the new jelly bean flavor will taste like the tropical, berry-like, and chocolate-ish taste of the exotic Acai Berry.
There are a number of new Acai Berry flavored products that actually have some of the health benefits that you can get from the Acai Berry. For example, Acai Berry smoothies can offer energy boosts, Acai juices can offer antioxidant powers, and Acai ice creams (such as the Haagen Dazs Acai Berry Sorbet) can offer a low-fat dessert.
But then again, all of these products are just offering SOME of the health benefits that the Acai Berry provides. Not all but only some. There are a couple of explanations why this is the case.
One: the manufacturers of these Acai flavored food products chose to include only small amounts of the berry in each of their products. Remember, the smaller the percentage composition of the Acai berry in a particular product, the smaller the benefits it can produce.
Say for example, the Haagen Dazs Sorbet. This ice cream contains other ingredients such as milk, lemon juice, sugar, flavorings, preservatives, etc. It may contain only a very small amount of Acai Berry, say, only about 5% of its entire composition. You simply cannot take advantage of the health benefits of the Acai Berry from this.
Two: another reason may come from the way the product is processed. The more processing the Acai Berry passes through, the less potent it becomes.
Let’s take for example Acai Berry juice. Now, Acai Berry juice has become really popular in the market today but only a few know about the results of a 2007 study at the Texas Department of Nutrition and Science.
The study aimed to investigate the effects of juice matrix composition and ascorbic acid fortification on the phytochemical, antioxidant, and pigment stability of Acai Berries. In other words, what happens to these three important chemicals in the Acai Berry when mixed with other ingredients that make up juices and ascorbic acid?
Here is the conclusion:
“Polyphenolic, antioxidant, and colour stabilities of açai juice are dependent on interactions among its matrix components and are influenced by processing, storage, temperature and chemical composition.
The majority of colour, phytochemical and antioxidant losses occurred during the first 6 days of storage.”
It’s very clear that many of the Acai Berry’s important biochemicals can be lost in an Acai juice in as little as 6 days of storage. This is interesting because the older the Acai juice you buy and drink, the less potent it is.
Where do you get an Acai Berry product that can offer full Acai Berry benefits then?
There is a natural preservation technique called freeze-drying which freezes 100% pure Acai extract in its freshest form until it is turned into capsules or pills. This method retains almost all of the color, phytochemicals, and antioxidants of the Acai Berry.
This is why when buying Acai Berry supplements, you always need to make sure that the product is derived from freeze-dried 100% pure Acai extract and not from something else. This way, you’ll be able to achieve the health goals you have set using the famous Acai Berry.
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