Results 1 to 8 of 8

Thread: Acai berry

  1. #1

    Default Acai berry

    I just heard about this berry and was wondering if anyone has any experience with it.
    Semper Fi


  2. #2
    Quality Control Director Ken's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    Massachusetts
    Posts
    16,724
    Blog Entries
    2

    Default

    I've tried a few different products. Some taste pretty good, others taste like crap. Some make a pretty good mixer with vodka.

    I've read reports, pro and con, about the proclaimed health benefits.

    I'm not sure, but I suspect most claims are simply hype to promote an expensive product with no more benefit than blueberries or pomegranites.
    “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
    W. Edwards Deming

    "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
    General John Stark

  3. #3

    Default

    I read a report that called it the "superfood". The more I read the more I doubted. Looks like it could just be a scam IMO. Wanted to find out more from experienced folks. Besides everyone knows the superfood is garlic anyways.
    Semper Fi

  4. #4

    Default

    I'm sorry I meant to say the super food is Twinkies.
    Semper Fi

  5. #5
    Senior Member Pict's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    Belo Horizonte Brazil
    Posts
    906

    Default

    I drink Acai all the time down here, it is very popular in Brazil. Health benefits? I don't know, I just like it. Mac
    The Colhane Channel TV for guys like me.

  6. #6
    Quality Control Director Ken's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    Massachusetts
    Posts
    16,724
    Blog Entries
    2

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by sthrnstrong View Post
    Besides everyone knows the superfood is garlic anyways.
    I have yet to use garlic in cereal or peanut butter sandwiches. With everything else, the bets are off. I use garlic - fresh, jumbo elephant, chopped and jarred, powdered, flaked, or garlic oil spray, in most things I cook. Tons of it.

    I also use lots of toothpaste, mouthwash, and breath mints.
    “Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
    W. Edwards Deming

    "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
    General John Stark

  7. #7

    Default

    I see lots of things called super foods.

    When three commercially available juice mixes containing unspecified percentages of açaí juice were compared for in vitro antioxidant capacity against red wine, tea, six types of pure fruit juice, and pomegranate juice, the average antioxidant capacity was ranked lower than that of pomegranate juice, Concord grape juice, blueberry juice, and red wine. The average was roughly equivalent to that of black cherry or cranberry juice, and was higher than that of orange juice, apple juice, and tea.
    I believe açaí can thank its popularity to a multilevel marketing scheme called Mona Vie.

    People like the juice. But, usually stop because of cost. Why pay that much when you can get the same benefits from more readily available food sources?

  8. #8
    Administrator Rick's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Central Indiana
    Posts
    58,832

    Default

    Good article in Reader's Digest this month about how vitamins are bad for you. Seriously. April, 2010. Page 86.

    "Last year, researchers published new findings from the Women's Health Initiative, a long-term study of more than 160,000 midlife women. The data showed that multivitamin takers are no healthier than those who don't pop the pills, at least when it comes the big diseases - cancer, heart disease, stroke."

    "Vitamin C [doesn't] ward off colds, except among marathoners, skiers and soldiers on subarctic exercises."

    "there's the real possibility that in some circumstances, antioxidant pills could actually promote cancer (in women as well as men)."

    "Vitamins are safe when you get them in food, but in pill form they can act more like a drug."

    The one vitamin that does appear to do you good is Vitamin D. Reader's Digest's final take? Eat right, and supplement with vitamin D.
    Tracks Across the High Plains...Death on the Bombay Line...A Touch of Death and Mayhem...Dead Rock...The Griswald Mine Boys...All On Amazon Books.

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •