Great, can I buy fresh Acai at my local market?
Yes – if you happen to live in the middle of Amazon Rainforest! For the rest of us, fresh Acai is not an option. Acai is very perishable and spoils within about 24 hours of being picked from the Acai Palm tree. So, how can I get Acai fruit? Acai pulp from the Amazon can be frozen and shipped to the US. A number of juice bars do have Acai smoothies – but this can get expensive. Acai pulp can also be dehydrated into a powder and freeze dried. This powder can then be put into capsules to make pure Acai supplements that maintain all the nutritional properties of fresh Acai – just in a concentrated form. Great, so I can just buy any Acai supplement? Not exactly. There is a world of difference between the various Acai supplements on the market. Some are made in such a way that they maintain almost NONE of the nutritional profile of fresh Acai. We have found some quality Acai supplements and had them lab tested to make sure they were pure and effective. We will discuss these more in a later a
