Acai Berry Nutrients
Acai Berry, A True Super Fruit
There have been many fruits that have been given the label of super fruit. While some fruits border on the requirements of what it takes to be considered a super fruit, acai berry is not one of them. Acai berry has gained the rightful title of super fruit.
Acai berries are full of vitamins and minerals that promote and build a healthy body. In addition to the nutritional benefits contained within acai berries, they also a superior source of highly potent antioxidants that protect our body’s cells. Acai berries contain what are known as phytochemicals. These phytochemicals promote health benefits beyond the basic nutrient value provided by acai berries.
Acai Berry Research
While small in size, the deep purple acai berry contains many elements that promote health and wellbeing. From a recent study published in the “Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry“, it identified the superfruit acai berry as having a quite diverse nutrient profile.
In addition to the vitamins and minerals that were found in the acai berry, it was found to be comprised of anthocyanins, flavonoids, proanthocyanins, fatty acids, amino acids, sterols and other nutrients. Of these nutrients contained in the profile, the study’s researchers identified cyanidin as the most abundant phytochemical within the acai berry.
Cyanidin’s Health Benefit and Importance
Acai berries are not the only fruit to contain cyanidin. Cyanidin is found in many berries that are purple, red or blue in colours. The skin of the acai berry contains the highest content of cyaniding. It is this phytochemical that is responsible for giving the acai berry its deep purple colour.
Cyanidin does much more than provide acai berries with their colour. Cyanidin has an antioxidant profile that is far more powerful than vitamin C or vitamin E, and some research indicates that it may have the antioxidant potential near pharmacological concentrations.
This is one of the reasons why acai berries have been called the most powerful of super fruits on the planet. Acai berry has the largest oxygen radical absorbance capacity value; that is it can eliminate the most free radicals of any edible berry.
When consuming acai berries you want to make sure that you are also consuming the skin of the acai berry to ensure you get the health benefits of the cyanidin. When drinking acai berry juice, this can be difficult as not all juice manufacturers use the skin of the acai berry.
This is not the case with TriFusion Max, as the entire acai berry is used in the juice. With the most acai berry per serving available, you also get all the nutritional health benefits of acai berry in TriFusion Max, but you also get the health benefits of goji berries, mangosteen, lychee fruit, gac fruit and pomegranate.
More Acai Berry Nutrient Benefits
The same “Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry” study that found the content of cyanidin in acai berries also found additional nutritional and health benefits of acai berries. The study found anthocyanins or ACNs in the highest concentration of any fruit. It is this high level of ACNs that researchers believe give the acai berry its amazing antioxidant powers. There we also three minor ACNs detected as well as several flavonoids.
For the first time in any study, proanthocyanidins were detected in the acai berry. The profile of the proanthocyanidins was similar to that found in blueberries. Last but not least, there were also three plant sterols found. The plant sterols that detected were: B-sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol.
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