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The acai palm (Euterpe oleracea), pronounced ah-sah-ee, is a member of the Euterpe genus and is native to Central and South America, from Belize south to Brazil and Peru.The palms prefer to live in floodplains and swampland and grow to a height of 15-30 meters.
The acai palm is very fast growing and is grown for its fruit and palm hearts which are eaten in salads. The acai fruit is about 25mm in diameter and grows on branches that support 800 or so acai fruits. When ripe the acai berry is a deep black purple colour with a large seed in the middle.
Acai berries have been an important fruit to the inhabitants of the Amazon region of Brazil, originally as food and today as a cash crop. The acai berry in recent years have been shown to have antioxidant properties particularly when freeze dried, powdered or the essence extracted. It has also been associated with weight loss but this has not been confirmed in the US by the FDA.
Acai berry juice is now becoming readily available in drinks and yoghurt and has become a trendy super fruit in the last couple of years, turning up in smoothies and juice mixes.
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