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Acai Recipes

December 10th, 2009

When thinking about acai recipes or when preparing them it is important to remember that the anthocyanins of acai berry are fragile and can change in nutritional value easily. Acai juice must not be cooked, but instead, served as an extra like on top of ice cream, or the integral part of something traditionally cold like smoothies.

Since the nutritional degradation occurs because of heat, you might wish to consider using pulp and not the juice, for the acai pulp is frozen. If you choose this option, keep the pulp in the freezer at 18ºC. Around one hour prior to use, take the frozen pulp out and then leave the pulp at room temperature for mild thawing. When the pulp does melt that juice is now visible, place it into either a cloth or plastic bag. Next, using a hammer, hit it to smash the bar. When having reduced the bar to bran, consider putting the acai bran into a blender. If you have a fabulous acai recipe, please feel free to submit your recipe in the comments section below this post or contact us with your recipe.

Acai-Banana-Strawberry-Lime Sorbet

acai recipe – gluten free, vegan and contains no refined sugar
Recipe from Radish Boy

  • 14 ounces Acai puree, thawed
  • 2 medium bananas, sliced
  • 10 medium strawberries, sliced
  • 2 limes, juiced
  • 1/4 cup agave syrup (or to taste)

Add the Acai puree, sliced bananas, sliced strawberries, lime juice, and agave syrup to your blender. Blend until smooth. Taste, and add more agave or lime juice as necessary.

If you have a sorbet or ice cream maker, follow the instructions on your machine.

Otherwise, pour the puree fruit into a baking pan and place in the freezer. Stir every 20 minutes until set.

Serve immediately, or transfer to a lidded container and store in the freezer.

Traditional Smoothie – Acai Recipes

  • 7 Oz (200 grams) Acai juice
  • ½ Cup Soy Milk or Juice
  • Fruit (one banana, ½ half apple, or 1 cup of other fruit)

Directions: Blend all ingredients together. Top with granola, sliced fruit or whipped cream.

Variants: Add ½ cup yogurt or ½ cup ice. Also, frozen acai pulp may be used in place of the juice.

Energy Bowl – Acai Recipes

  • 8 oz. Açaí puree
  • 8 whole strawberries (fresh or frozen)
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt
  • 1/4 cup soy milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup granola
  • 1/2 cup fresh berries or seasonal fruit

Directions: In a blender, puree açaí, strawberries, yogurt, soy milk, and vanilla for 1 minute, until smooth. Pour into a bowl and top with granola and fruit. Serve chilled.

Variants: Crumbled cookies may be exchanged for granola. Other fruit (such as bananas or mangoes) may be substituted in like amount for strawberries.

The Rio Bowl (Traditional Acai Recipe)

Directions: Slice two-thirds of a large banana into a blender, and then add 2 packs of Original Acai Blend and 3-4 oz of apple juice or plain soy milk. Blend thick and pour into a bowl. Top with organic granola and the remaining banana, sliced.

Açai Berry and Orange Smoothie

Add 100g Açai Berry Pulp, 150ml orange juice, 2 teaspoons of honey, and a half a banana.

Açai Berry and Tigela

Add 100g Açai Berry Pulp, 100ml orange juice, 2 teaspoons of honey, and half a banana.

Açai Berry and Apple Smoothie

Add 100g Açai Berry pulp, 100ml apple Juice, 2 teaspoons of honey, and half a banana.

Acai Berry and Blueberry

Add a handful of blueberries, 100g Acai Berry pulp, 100ml orange juice, and 2 tablespoons of yogurt.

Acai Berry and Mango

Add 50g Acai Berry pulp, 50g mango, 150g apple juice, and 2 strawberries.

Acai Berry and Mango Bowl

Add 100g Acai Berry Pulp, 100g mango, 150ml apple juice, 1/2 banana, and dollop of honey.

Acai Mixed Berry Smoothie

Add 100g Acai Berry pulp, 150ml apple juice, 2 strawberries, 5 raspberries, and 5 blueberries.

Acai Berry and Yogurt Smoothie

Add 100g Acai Berry pulp, 100ml natural yogurt, 1 small Banana, 50ml water, and dollop of honey.

Acai Berry Bowl w/ Orange

Add 200g Acai Fruit Pulp, 100 ml orange juice, 2 spoons of honey, and 2 slices of banana.

Acai Berry and Tigela w/ Berries and Apples

Add 200g Acai Fruit Pulp, 200ml apple juice, 2 Strawberries, and a handful of raspberries.

Acai Berry, Pomegranate and Blueberry

Add 100g Acai Fruit Pulp, 150ml pomegranate juice, and a handful of blueberries.

Acai Berry Bread

  • 1 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/8 cup Shortening
  • 3/4 cup Orange juice
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 cup cup of açaí berry juice
  • 1 cup Nuts

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. In blender, combine egg, shortening, orange juice, and sugar. Add açaí berry juice & nuts and chop briefly. Empty into flour mixture. Mix by hand until moistened. Bake in a greased 9×5 pan at 350F for 50 to 60 minutes.

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Acai Links

December 10th, 2009

Acai Links – With the acai berry being all the rage these days, there are a number of products and websites that are exploding with information about it.

Below you will find a number of links to additional information on this powerful, potent little berry. Important topics that revolve around this berry are:

If you have a website with an article that you think Antioxidant-fruits.com should add to this list of links, please contact us and include the URL address of the article, (ex. http://www.antioxidant-fruits.com) or post it below in the comments on this article.  Thank you.

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Acai Fruit

December 10th, 2009

Chances are you hadn’t heard the Acai Fruit until it made the “Top Ten List of Super Foods” compiled by dermatologist and author Dr. Nicholas Perricone.

As Oprah mentioned, “This little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world. It can often be found in juice form in health food and gourmet stores.” Oprah recently featured the berry again on her February 5th airing of “Dr. Oz’s Ultimate Anti-Aging Checklist”.  Dr. Oz commented on the show, “It has twice the antioxidant content as a blueberry, so it’s a wonderful alternative,” Dr. Oz says. “Look at the food label and make sure they don’t have too many carbohydrates in there. It’s available in all major stores now. It’s just sort of breaking through.”

Acai Berry
Açaí (pronounced ah-sigh-EE) is the fruit of a palm tree that grows in the Amazon rain forests of Brazil. The acai fruit is a small, round, blackish purple berry about 1 inch in diameter.  Two or three crops of fruit are produced each year.  The harvesting of this little berry, allows for the trees to stay where they are.  In other words, the famous heart of palm, becomes less valuable because the tree has to be cut down for it and obviously one only gets one rendering of the product by cutting down the tree.  Whereas, with the production of the berry, the tree has at least two uses every year.  <br>

So the recent popularity of Antioxidant Açaí is not only helping humans in many ways, but also preventing deforestation of the Amazon.

The Acai Fruit is loaded with antioxidants that protect your health and give you energy. In fact, it delivers 33 times more antioxidant power than both red grapes and red wine. The Acai Fruit also contains amino acids, important vitamins and trace minerals. 

In summary, Acai is rich in the following beneficial nutrients:

  • antioxidants
  • phytonutrients
  • essential fatty acids (Omega 3, 6, & 9)
  • vitamins and minerals
  • complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber
  • amino acids, trace minerals

Since açaí loses it’s nutritional value rapidly after harvesting, outside the growing region, popular forms of açaí are frozen, dried or freeze-dried.  Several companies now manufacture juices, health drinks, and sorbets with these little berries (often times with other berries and fruits included with it).

Harvesting of the berry deep begins in the Brazilian Amazon—removing only the berries and leaving the tree for future harvesting and safeguarding the rainforest.  Since the açaí berry is a delicate fruit, much of its vitamins and nutrients can be lost within 24 hours after harvesting.  Some companies take special care to freeze the berry, and then reduce the berry into a fine freeze dried powder.  It is through this patent pending technique that certain companies are able to capture the amazing benefits that only the fresh açaí berry can offer.  For bottling, the best technique is flash pasteurization rather than kettle pasteurization; therefore capturing the fresh flavors, vibrant colors and dense nutrient content of the berry.

Acai berry complex protects the body’s cells from pathogens, antigens and carinogens.  The body recognized these nutrients and adapts them to protect and strengthen the immune system.  The berry allows blood/brain barrier transmission while strengthening cell membranes.  All cell membranes need to protect against the unwanted entrance of pathogens.  The berry strengthens the nervous system.  From the brain to the smallest nerve ending, this physiological (electrical) process needs energy for proper synaptic responses that quality food delivers.  The berry provides essential oils.  Oils are an array of incredibly small particles that bind with other nutrients and transport them through membranes.  Our bodies would not work without them.  They not only transport, but contain phytochemicals themselves.

Have you tried the acai berry?  Please let us know what you think about it by leaving a comment below.

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Acai Berry

December 10th, 2009

Acai Berry  – An Extraordinary Antioxidant-Rich Fruit from the Amazon Rain Forest

The Acai Berry (also known as the Acai Fruit or confused as the Acai Cherry) which is commonly pronounced ah-sigh-ee, is a rather small, round, and dark-looking purple berry. It resembles a blueberry, but is yet smaller and darker. This berry has a large seed and minimum amount of pulp. The acai fruit berry is now broadly used in energy juices, ice cream, certain energy bars with granola.

Acai has been used for many generations by the natives of Brazil. Acai boasts 10 times the antioxidant benefits of grapes and twice that of blueberries.

The Main Health Benefits of the Acai are:

  • An extremely powerful free radical fighter
  • Acai has very high levels of fibers
  • Cleanses and detoxifies the body of infectious toxins
  • Strengthens your immune system
  • Enhances sexual desire and performance
  • Normalizes and regulates cholesterol levels
  • Helps maintain healthy heart function
  • Minimizes inflammation
  • Improves circulation
  • Prevents atherosclerosis
  • Enhances visual acuity
  • Fights cancer cells
  • Slows down the aging process
  • Boosts energy levels
  • Improves digestive function (and regularity!)
  • Improves mental clarity/focus
  • Promotes sound sleep
  • Provides all vital vitamins
  • Contains several important minerals
  • Promotes healthier and younger-looking skin
  • Alleviates diabetes
  • Normalizes and regulates cholesterol levels
  • Helps maintain healthy heart function
  • Minimizes inflammation
  • Improves circulation
  • Prevents arthrosclerosis
  • Enhances visual acuity

People Have Reported the Following Health Benefits:

  • Helps stabilize normal blood sugar levels
  • Helps improve patients suffering from leukemia
  • Fights general depression
  • Supports weight loss
  • Improves upon your overall physical strength
  • Relieves arthritis pain
  • Helps to clear skin of warts
  • Reduces the occurrence of seizures
  • Helps to reduce physical injuries & speed up recovery 

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Acai Berry and Sex

December 10th, 2009

Lady Bugs Having Sex

Acai Berry and Sex: As we know, the acai berry is mostly from Brazil and other parts of the Amazonian Rain Forrest. Brazilians believe acai gives you strength, energy and better sex.

Pronounced ah-sah-yee, acai is drunk more commonly than milk in Brazil; a magic fruit potion that fuels the hedonistic energy. In fact, doctors in brazil recommend drinking a lot of acai when couples are having trouble getting pregnant!

Want to increase your sex drive and help your health in many ways at the same time?  We have found the following products to be helpful and quite successful in providing this.  Of course, this is a natural attempt at sex drive, so it may not happen for a couple of weeks or a couple of months, depending on your body.  But, the acai and sex drive sometimes go hand in hand with some individuals.

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There are a couple of great articles about the acai berry and better sex that the British have published.  Please find links to them below:

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