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Açaí (ah-sigh-ee) is a rich, palmberry harvested from the Amazon Rainforest that resembles a large purple blueberry. The pulp from the berries are used in beverages, sodas, smoothies, and other juice blends, because of its amazing health benefits. The pulp has a taste similar to a fusion of rich berries and chocolate. Despite its numerous benefits, you cannot eat the açaí berry directly, rather the berries must be harvested fresh and processed into a pulp. This extracted pulp is loaded with antioxidants, healthy Omega fats, and many electrolytes and therefore only the pulp is eaten or drunk.

Amazon natives eat an amazing amount of açaí, using the pulp to top many foods including fish and meat. In some cities it used more widely than milk. Throughout the rest of Brazil açaí has gone mainstream, and many brazilians freeze their açaí and mix it with Guarana syrup.

Açaí is continuing to gain a large following throughout the rest of the world due to its vast health benefits, and its ability to be blended into juices, smoothies, and other health foods.