Maintaining The Nutritional Value Of The Acai Berry
For people that live in Brazil or in the Amazon rainforest its pretty easy to get good fresh high quality acai. The fruit is everywhere and it's consumed as frequently as orange juice in the U.S.
The acai palm trees are fairly abundant in the areas in and around the Amazon rainforest and people could literally climb up the Acai palm tree and pick some fresh acai berries. Unfortunately, for our us who don't live there getting fresh acai berries is impossible.
The acai berry is 30 - 50% fat…the good fat (like in olive oil). But the bad news is foods high in fat will go rancid quickly. So because of the high fat (good fat) content in acai berry, the fruit goes rancid within 24 hours of being picked. So, for those of us who live in countries outside of South America, its just not possible to get the actual fresh fruit.
Since the fresh fruit is not an option for most of us, we have to get our acai from either freeze dried acai or frozen acai keeping in mind that the fruit MUST be either freeze dried or flash frozen within 24 hours of being harvested before it is shipped.
This is an excellent way to get good high quality of acai but … a lot depends on high quality control standards being maintained throughout the processing, packing, shipping and handling during the trip to its destination. That's why you must buy from only the very best companies to insure that you are getting the very best acai. That being said, freeze dried acai or frozen acai can be used to make excellent smoothies.
Freeze dried acai is sold either powder or in capsule form.
We prefer the capsules simple because they are best protected from oxygen when they are in the capsule. If you are using freeze dried acai from a jar remember that once the jar is opened it needs to be refrigerated (and the container should be properly closed) to keep its freshness and potency.
Handled properly the freeze dried powder is excellent, but our #1 pick is the capsules because they are more protected from the effects of the oxygen in the air and they are the easiest to use everyday.
Our #1 pick is the 100% Pure Organic Perfect Acai which is made exclusively with the highest quality organic freeze dried acai powder. Another extra benefit with this product is that the company that produces "Perfect Acai" have taken great pains to insure that there is no filler used in the capsules and that the capsules are produced with no carrying agents in the production process.
So in our view the 100% Pure Organic Perfect Acai capsules are the best way to enjoy the highest quality freeze dried acai in a convenient capsule form.
By the way, gram for gram (or ounce for ounce) freeze dried Acai has a significantly higher concentration of nutrients than even fresh Acai fruit.
