Acai History: Unlocking The Secret

The acai history is held with the people of the Amazon near the Para River. It is said that the rainforest holds "nature's medicine chest," in that the majority of today's pharmaceuticals are derived from or contain active ingredients from plants and fruits that inhabit the region. The rainforest generates more than twenty percent of our oxygen and is a home for more than two thirds of plants and animals on the planet.

First, a little bit about traditional acai history. It is smaller than a grape and produces very little pulp because of its large seed in the middle. It is usually dark purple in color and is almost a black hole to light because of its dark pigments. The berry typically grows in branched panicles of 700-900 fruits. The acai berry is one of Brazil's most popular foods and is used in making a delicious snack called an acai bowl. Brazilian acai juice is also becoming super popular within the past few years and is making quite a splash in the western world. It's important for the juice to contain the entire freeze dried acai pulp to attain the maximum benefit.

Food in Brazil is best broken down into regions of the North, the Northeast, the Southeast, and the South. Sugarcane, traditional cheeses, fried bananas, and churrasco are just to name a few basic foods. Some cuisine consists of Pão de Queijo or cheese bread, empenadas which resemble small pot pies, and kibe which originates from Syrian kibbeh. Acai berries can also be added to a famous dish called Picadinho de Jacaré.

Aside from traditional acai berry history and region information, I'd like to share some acai folklore as well...

There was a village near the edges of the Para River that was rapidly increasing in population which led to food becoming scarce. The tribe leader, Itaki, declared that no woman may bear a child and if she did, the baby would be sacrificed. Itaki's daughter, Iaca, was bearing a child at the time; her father was both excited and abhorred because he knew that this child would be treated the same as all others during this trying time.

Throughout the pregnancy, Iaçá prayed to Tupá that he would show her father foods of Brazil that could save the tribe from famine. Unfortunately, nothing happened.

The child was born and sacrificed; Iaca was devastated--she cried day and night and did not eat anything while enclosed in her hut for days. One of the nights in her hut, she heard her daughter's cry from the forest. Iaca ran into the forest and found her daughter by the side of a slender palm tree. Attempting to embrace her child, the image disappeared and the tribe found Iaca dead with a smile on her face. Her eyes were still wide open looking up looking up at the bountiful dark purple fruits on top of the palm tree. History shows this was an acai palm, which can be enjoyed by eating the hearts of palm or acai berries.

The tribe ordered to have the acai fruits brought down and have the juice removed. With that, they obtained a reddish wine that soon became the diet for the tribe. Today foods of Brazil include acai juice smoothies and acai bowls.

Itaki called the fruit Açaí (Iaçá inverted) in memory of his daughter and allowed the birth of children again. The tribe prospered again. Today, that population is known as Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil and acai history remains rooted here.

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