The acai diet – a diet that includes, somewhere, the delicious and nutritious acai berry — is growing in popularity. Often precious little is known about the berry itself; this partly because very few of those using the acai diet will ever see an acai berry in its natural form. Unfortunately, the acai berry degrades rapidly after it is harvests, and the raw material in its berry form is only available within the immediate growing area.

When acai berries are exported for those of us who enjoy the benefits of an acai diet, it is generally in the form of an acai juice or an acai pulp. Powdered acai is also available but I can not recommend this as a useful addition to a stable acai diet. As powdered acai is tasteless and nowhere near as nutritionally valuable as the pulp or juices, why would you use it, after all?

The acai berry provides as much as 42% — by weight — of the food consumed in the Amazon region. This is impressive and almost amounts to an acai diet by default. Image how healthy those lucky locals must be! It is worth a thought, then, to consider just how important the acai berry is to the people in the region, providing a huge proportion of their food their food and much of their income.

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