Bobby Buggs Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 what do you know about Brazilian açai berries? Mods please keep this here for a couple days so it can get some response and not be in the board grave yard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 what do you know about Brazilian açai berries?Mods please keep this here for a couple days so it can get some response and not be in the board grave yard. they taste good and they are as heavy in antioxidants as pomegranate and blueberry's, I've been drinking acai berry juice every morning at work for the last month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Buggs Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Which one do you have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Bossa Nova, sometimes I get one of the blends they taste good too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpyride Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 From the information that I received from an un-named source is that the fruit of the coffee bean has the highest level of antioxidents of all. It will be coming to many new products in the not too distant future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Hey Bobby, were you at Hunter Mountain this week? A friend of mine said they were admiring a jacket with a "Carvefather" on it with puppeteer strings logo onit... I said it had to be either you or Ronnie or someone from BOL..... as there was some HB riders at Hunter and they watched one in particular wander into a mogul minefield and do some gnarly bone crushing tumbles..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Buggs Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Not me, it was Ronnie. He is the only one with that Jacket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Buggs Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Gecko, where do you get that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 The grocery store on base has it and I think Super Stop and Shop has it in the Produce section, I usually buy a 6 pack of whatever is in the cooler and put it in my fridge at work. There is also Emergen-C Acai which is my preferred C compliment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 what do you know about Brazilian açai berries? If you drink the juice, the next morning you wake up with absolutely no pubic hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Buggs Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 ah yes another potentially interesting health based thread gone quickly t&a by a moderator no less...... and yet all the people that poo pooed the neti pot and that thread still lives - spare me the finger wagging! and yes acai berries are really good for you among other dark potent berries loaded with antioxidants And I even Asked to keep it where I posted it, not bad it lasted about an hour:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 And I even Asked to keep it where I posted it, not bad it lasted about an hour:( how is a question about berries carving related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 And I even Asked to keep it where I posted it, not bad it lasted about an hour:( this has to stop. I mean, I like to think I know A LOT about Brazil after being married to a Brasilian for almost 10 years and I know zilch about these berries. I did get a good laugh out of jack's comment , too. Hairless like a baby's bum. This site would be pretty boring if all we talked about was carving carving carving tech tech tech. I'm not the only poster here that's fed up with thread deletion, snuffing posts. Some stuff does have to go,like spam or malicious threads, but ....berries ? C'MON ! gimme a freakin' BREAK ! this post won't last an hour :rolleyes: more useless noise provided by yours truly http://www.acai.vg/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 And I even Asked to keep it where I posted it, not bad it lasted about an hour:( This thread is as off-topic as it gets. Don't worry Buggs, our OT forum gets lots of traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allee Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 This is the one I drink : http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/bomdia/. The pomegranate and acai one is nice, the cacao is a bit weird. These guys are a Cali company and their stuff's pretty widely available. Speaking of weird drinks, I discovered seabuckthorn juice while I was in Nepal. Delicious and apparently super high in Vitamin C. Drunk hot, it tastes like hot mandarin. I'm still trying to source some in North America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Try this ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 try some of this http://www.santasm.net/ a gift from bob & I I like the Caju (brazilian cashew juice) http://www.latinmerchant.com/productdetail.asp?ProductID=D0008 http://www.caju.ca/ http://www.pulpa.co.uk/caju.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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willywhit Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 check this out, Buggs mrs whit just got home and mentioned your post she says try the sorbet http://www.haagen-dazs.com/reserve/bab.aspx Brazil is BIG into ice cream, called "sorvete" http://eyesonbrazil.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/sacole-vs-picole/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 it's a great language. and yes, I do speak it http://streetsmartbrazil.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Well, it helps if you give your thread a title that's more descriptive than "question". Also maybe not many people know/care about acai berries. Bossa Nova, sometimes I get one of the blends they taste good too I tried a bottle of this the other day... the label only reported like 4% usda vitamin C and not much A or E either. How is this so high in antioxidants then? It did seem to give me a bit of a lift though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 mrs whit brought home the ice cream for me to try, pretty good stuff. she says the berries are kinda chic lately http://www.bioticweightloss.com/blog/acai-berry/acai-berry-is-now-wheatgrass-chic/ I'll stick with the super soda http://www.bawls.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex1230 Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 ‘Superfood’ Promoted on Oprah’s Site Robs Amazon Poor of Staple 2009-05-14 04:01:23.0 GMT By Adriana Brasileiro May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Rising U.S. sales of acai, a purple Amazon berry promoted as a “superfood” on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site, are depriving Brazilian jungle dwellers of a protein-rich nutrient they’ve relied on for generations. U.S. consumers are turning a “a typical poor people’s food into something like a delicacy,” said Oscar Nogueira, who specializes in the fruit at Embrapa, Brazil’s agricultural research company. Spending on acai-based products by Americans seeking to lose weight, gain energy or slow aging doubled to $104 million last year, according to SPINS, a Schaumburg, Illinois-based market research firm. Since U.S. demand took off early this decade, the fruit’s wholesale price in Brazil has jumped about 60-fold, Embrapa data show. In 2008, exports from Para, the South American country’s main producing state, climbed 53 percent to account for about a quarter of output, according to the local government. Production, though, has increased little in the past five years. Winfrey, 55, discussed the berry with Mehmet Oz on her TV talk show in February 2008, when the New York cardiologist presented his “anti-aging checklist.” It includes acai, blueberries and tomatoes. “It has twice the antioxidant content of a blueberry,” said Oz, 48. Winfrey’s site publishes dermatologist Nicholas Perricone’s “10 Superfoods List,” which includes the Brazilian fruit. Meriden, Connecticut-based Perricone, 60, sells skin-care items and food supplements, including a powder that contains the berry, according to his Web page. Winfrey Disclaimer Oz declined to be interviewed for this article. Perricone didn’t reply to e-mail and telephone requests for comment. Perricone’s list on Winfrey’s site includes a link to a statement saying she isn’t associated with any acai product. “We are pursuing unauthorized uses of Ms. Winfrey’s name associated to acai-based products, none of which she has endorsed,” said Don Halcombe, a spokesman for Harpo Inc., Winfrey’s production company. Chicago-based Harpo is turning over complaints about such items to the Illinois Attorney General’s office, Halcombe said in a telephone interview. Halcombe declined to comment on the effect increased U.S. demand is having on traditional consumers in Brazil. In Igarape-Miri, an Amazon village 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) north of Brasilia, Francisca Neves, who sells manioc flour to neighbors and restaurants, says the bitter pulp she used to eat twice a day is now a luxury. “Our granddaughter is turning 3 and we’re going to have family coming to our house,” said Neves, 68, as she paid 20 reais ($9.40), or about 7 percent of her monthly household income, for 2 liters (2 quarts) of the thick mush at a local street market. Palm Trees Acai grows on palm trees and looks like a blueberry. In the Amazon, it is beaten, diluted in water and eaten with manioc, meat, fish or dried shrimp. The pulp provides more protein in relation to its weight than eggs and milk, and has high levels of anthocyanin, an antioxidant, as well as vitamins E and B1, potassium, iron and calcium, according to Embrapa. The Para government recommends its consumption. The berry is popularly associated with bone and muscular strength, longevity and a healthy immune system, said Lucival Cardoso, the state’s chief health inspector. “We encourage families to give acai to children as young as 6 months,” Cardoso said. “It’s also very filling; that’s why it’s traditionally associated with low-income family diets.” No FDA Review The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn’t reviewed any acai-based products for safety or purported health benefits, Susan Cruzan, an FDA spokeswoman based in White Oak, Maryland, said in an e-mail. Pills and other merchandise made with the fruit’s extracts are sold in health food stores across America. Energy drinks containing the juice are sold by the supermarket chains Safeway Inc., Publix Super Markets Inc. and Kroger Co., and by natural- food retailer Whole Foods Market Inc. Some U.S. Web sites say the berry can help with weight loss, sexual dysfunction, fighting cancer cells and regenerating muscles. MonaVie LLC of South Jordan, Utah, offers a 25-ounce bottle of its MonaVie Original acai juice blend that distributors sell for $45. Its Web site says the drink provides the “phytonutrients and antioxidants needed to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.” Independent Distributors The company is struggling with independent distributors who promote the juice as a miracle drug, said Randy Larsen, executive vice president. “We are very regulated here about what claims we can make or not make,” Larsen said in a telephone interview. Attempts in Brazil to boost production to meet demand have had little success because of the difficulty in obtaining land alongside riverbeds, said Alfredo Oyama Homma, an Embrapa rural economist based in Belem, Para’s capital. “The acai palm trees are most productive when surrounded by other trees, and they also need lots of water,” Homma said. In Brazil’s southeast, where the country’s most populated cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are located, the berry’s pulp is sold at juice bars and health clubs as smoothies, mixed with sugar or sweeteners and other fruits. That’s how Ryan Black, chief executive officer of San Clemente, California-based Sambazon Inc., which makes acai-based pulp, energy drinks and supplements, discovered the berry in 1999. Flavor and Energy “I was hooked on the flavor and energy,” said Black, 34, who traveled to Rio with Ed Nichols, who is now his business partner. “We thought California would be a perfect market.” Black and Nichols, 34, shipped their first container of frozen pulp to California in 2000 and built a factory in Amapa, another state in the Amazon, six years later. In 2008, Sambazon’s revenue rose 67 percent to $25 million, Black said. Sambazon, short for Saving and Managing the Brazilian Amazon, sells its products at 15,000 locations across the U.S., Black said. In Brazil, farmers traditionally sell their harvest in wicker baskets that hold about 14 kilograms (31 pounds) of fruit. Since 2000, the wholesale price of a basket has risen from one real to as much as 60 reais, Embrapa data show. Neves says she and her fellow villagers, who call Igarape- Miri the world capital of acai, are paying the price of the berry’s international fame. “We are happy that people on the other side of the world are able to enjoy our acai, but we don’t want to have to go without it,” Neves said. “Why should we suffer so people who don’t even know anything about the fruit can have their acai pills?” For Related News and Information: News on the Amazon NSE AMAZON <GO> News on Brazil’s economy: TNI BRAZIL ECO <GO> News on U.S. Food and Drug Administration: NI FDA <GO> Stories about health in the U.S.: TNI US HEALTH <GO>} News on the pharmaceutical industry: NI DRG <GO> Stories about U.S. and Brazil trade: NSE BRAZIL US TRADE <GO> --With assistance from Catherine Larkin in Washington. Editors: Rick Jarvie, Anne Pollak. To contact the reporter on this story: Adriana Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro at +55-21-2125-2532 or abrasileiro@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: William Glasgall at +1-212-617-3023 or wglasgall@bloomberg.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Sub Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 unless you're blending or juicing them fresh or darn close to it, you're not getting anywhere near the nutrients you could be. get a good blender, throw in some organic blueberries and plums (whole, minus seed of course). Add some spinach and water...blend it all real good... bam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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