Acai Berry Products

There is a vast number of acai berry products available in the market place today.  You are able to buy acai fresh as the whole berry,as a powder, capusles, and acai can be purchased as a juice or pulp.

Click on the below links to read about each of the product categories or continue reading this page for an overview of choosing a good product.

Acai Juice   Acai Bowl   Acai Weight Loss Products

A consumer is advised to buy acai berry product from known companies with a good reputation in order to ensure a safe and nutritious product, considering the potential for an allergic reaction, all consumers are advised to check the ingredients panel, as well as checking with a licensed nutritionist or doctor, before purchasing any supplement.

Choosing between Acai Powder and Acai Berries is usually only an issue of availablity. The acai berry loses quite a lot of its' goodness every minute after it is picked, so the only recommended way to process Acai berries is to freeze-dry them within hours or even minutes of being picked.

Mr Food gives a quick overview on some Acai Berry products...

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Freeze dried acai berry products

Unfortunately, many Acai plantations fail to freeze dry their berries at all, (just freezing the pulp normally or using a low-tech process called "Spray drying") so the first thing that you have to acertain in your choice of acai berry format is if the berry itself was properly freeze dried or not.

If it was not freeze dried, or then the difference between Acai powders and acai berries is completely negligable... Neither would be likely to retain more than 1% of its' natural amount of nutrients nor antioxidents!

However, if you can confirm that the Acai powder is made from Acai berries that were freeze dried within hours of being picked, then you can expect Antioxident levels ranging from 30% to 50% of levels in the natural berry pulp state, gram per gram.

This all pertains to the berries' pulp, not to the Seed, which contains the other half of the Antioxidents, and many of the nutrients of the Acai berry. (It is in fact the only part of the berry that contains the Omega 3, 6, & 9 fatty acids!) The seed does not need to be freeze-dried, but is notoriously difficult to chop down small enough in order to be consumed in drink.

Very few companies take the time to use properly freeze-dried Acai powder and then combine it with finely chopped acai seed. -This is clearly the best form of Acai to consume outside of the Amazon basin.

Most brands of retail acai berry juice do not include the seed in their juices, whereas absolutley no powders include the seed at all. Naturally, drinking Acai berry juice with finely chopped seed in the juice is the preferred form of the drink for the most nutritional value. Unfortunately, very few brands of juice include the seed too. If you feel that the nutrients from the Acai seed are more important for your body than the pulp, then you should first try to find one of the juice brands that include it, and only failing that should you attempt to take powdered Acai. 

So in summation, Acai Berry powder is clearly the inferior form of Acai for all possible purposes. In almost all cases you should skip the vitamin aisle at your local health food store and look for juice drinks with the highest amount of Acai in them instead... With the best drinks including the finely chopped Acai seed.

Powdered Acai berries are sometimes delivered in capsule form. A typical Acai Capsule contains 500 miligrams of powdered Acai berry pulp, NOT including the seed, with ideally only the water removed from the berry for maximum health value.

One benefit of taking Acai capsules over acai juice is that the powdered version of an acai berry contains very few calories, so dieters often prefer them over the juice form.

However, it is a sad fact that the powdered form of Acai berries will lose around 50% to 65% of the nutrients and antioxidents of properly prepared Acai berry juice, simply because they and the Omega 3, 6, & 9 fatty acids all existed in the Seed of the Acai berry... So no capsule unless it says that they have specifically included the Seed on the lable, is any better for you than eating the frozen pulp itself. 

A good 'Rio Bowl' in the morning, made of 100 grams of frozen Acai pulp, is effectively 20 TIMES as healthful to you as one of these capsules