Acai FRuit: What Makes it so Good For Your Health?
Acai fruit is very highly antioxidant and can be used for such diverse purposes as maintaining a youthful-looking skin to protecting your cardiovascular system. Why is this? The color of the acai berry should provide you with the first clue, because most highly colored fruits and vegetables are strong antioxidants and protect you from the oxidizing effects of substances known as free radicals.
These get into your body from many sources, including sunlight, pollutants and your own body’s metabolism. They can do a great deal of harm, and acai berries contain substances known as anthocyanins that neutralize them. Free radicals are small oxygenated molecules, not living things such as bacteria or viruses, and they can be destroyed chemically by substances known as antioxidants.
Chemically, the acai fruit contains a number of tocopherols, sterols and fatty acids. The berries contain Vitamins C and E and three of the B vitamins, and also a number of minerals, particularly potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and a number of valuable trace elements. Each of these is essential to your good health. It also contains amino acids and sugars, and most important of all, the anthocyanins - around 30 times the amount that red wine contains. It also contains all the beneficial fatty acids that olive oil contains. Add everything up, and you get a massive amount of beneficial goodies in one delicious berry that you would have to eat a variety of different foods to accomplish otherwise.
Look for a quality acai fruit extract at your local or internet health food store. Always choose name brands like Solaray and Source Naturals to ensure authenticity and purity of the exotic fruit you purchase.
