100% Acai

Who can benefit from Acai-100?
Any adult concerned about the level of their oxidative stress due to excessive stress, lack of sleep, poor diet, alcohol, smoking, environmental pollution, and even rigorous exercise or physical activity. In addition, many customers have claimed more restful sleep, feeling less tired (especially upon waking), and even relief from chronically feeling cold.
Safe during pregnancy and breast-feeding (it is after all 100% natural fruit). Not recommended for children, however, only due to the possible difficulty of swallowing the capsule.

Since acai (pronounced ah-sa-ee), a palm fruit only found naturally growing in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, was found to possess the highest antioxidant value of any known fruit or vegetable, it has become a mainstay in health-conscious and nutritional circles, especially in its native Brazil and, later, the United States. Its popularity is now being backed by continuing scientific research at universities in Brazil, USA, Germany, and Japan.

(The ORAC Value of a food is the measurement of Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity. The higher the ORAC score, the more capable that particular food is of destroying free radicals, thus retarding the aging process and other diseases.)

Matter of fact, studies in Germany and Japan have found that acai performs better as an antioxidant than both vitamin C or catechin (from green tea) and has more than 30 times the polyphenols found in red wine. Moreover, freeze-dried acai powder has been found to act as anti-inflammatory, with such citations in several separate studies.

Why are such findings of great interest and importance? More and more evidence is gathering to prove the need for an abundance of antioxidants in our daily diet. Antioxidants work in so many, varied ways and are of vital importance to both our health and appearance that it would take a book to list all of the reasons why you too should be getting more antioxidants on a daily basis.

Acai-100 differs from most other acai supplements on the market that it is 100% unadultered freeze-dried acai powder. Other products can use other ingredients of lower antioxidant value and/or compromised, heat-processed forms of acai(those are either pink or even sandy in colour; acai should be black-purple). I have been researching acai since 2005 and purchase my raw materials directly from the Amazon region. It is tested rigorously for its antioxidant value and to assure that it is 100% free of any pesticide residues. The benefit to you is more antioxidant power for your money (below graph: test results vs other acai supplements sold in Japan).

Additionally, freeze-dried acai powder, as used in Acai-100, was found to contain the following nutrients (per independent lab analysis in Japan):

2.8 more potassium than banana
4.2 more iron than beef liver
2.0 more calcium than milk
9.2 more magnesium than broccoli

Also, Vitamins A, B1, B2, B12, E, and loads of dietary fiber. Wait…there`s more: acai has every essential amino acid and its amino acid balance is almost identical to that of an egg. The oils of acai are primarily Omega 6 and Omega 9 and its ratio is almost identical to that of olive oil. Moreover, in acai there are phytosterols, including beta-sitosterol and lignans.

Information pertaining to the current and ongoing scientific research on acai can be found at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/

What is acai? Acai is a small (diameter 1.5cm) fruit that grows in clusters on a tall (20-30m) palm tree only in the Amazon rainforest. It has been consumed as a staple food by many of the indigenous people of this area for centuries. This is an amazing fact in itself as a fruit is almost never consumed as a staple food in any culture. Most fruits are high in sugar and even natural sugars in high amounts would cause disease when consumed in large amounts daily. However, acai is extremely low in sugars (<0.5%). Moreover, of interest is that these indigenous cultures of the Amazon picked acai, which must be hand-harvested daily from these very tall trees, even though this region has close to 3,000 different fruits to choose from? (Compare that to the fact that our food culture has 200 fruits.) Acai must definitely be something very, very special.

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An additional benefit from using acai is that it actually acts to protect the precious Amazon rainforest from deforestation. The Brazilian government recently stated that “in the areas where acai cultivation has increased, there has been a decrease in deforestation.” Why? Well, if the local population can harvest this fruit from those abundant acai palms in the Amazon, it would make sense for them to protect these trees and their natural habitat from destruction (the majority is caused by ranches, requiring more and more land to graze their cattle). Therefore, the locals are empowered by acai cultivation to protect their resources and paid a fair wage for their product (as the picked acai fruit is sold at market daily). Such a trend would also certainly strengthen the drive to reverse global warming! By using an acai product, YOU too automatically become a friend of the Amazon.

100% Acai