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Thursday, March 12, 2009

How to Preserve and Process Acai Berries

By Eileen Givens

Most fruits are best eaten fresh but it is not an option for some fruits such as acai berries. The short shelf live for the great little acai berry makes it hard for people to eat them fresh or drink them as a fresh juice. Once acai berries are picked from the acai palm trees, they can deteriorate within hours. If you refrigerate them, their nutrients can last as long as 24 hours but usually less.

The fast deterioration of acai berries makes it hard to transport them to countries where demand is. This is why it is necessary to find the most efficient way to process and preserve acai berries so that they can be sold once they reach their destinations. If they are not processed or preserved, they may not even make it across Brazil, the country where mostly all acai palm trees grow.

There are many challenges that manufacturers face when trying to preserve and process acai berries. The cost can be high and any slight drop in quality control could mean the whole batch of acai berries will be worthless. Once acai berries are picked by the locals, they are quickly transported to be processed to avoid any risks of microbial contamination.

Not only do manufacturers need to consider how to preserve acai berries so that they will not become rotten during shipment, they also need to think of ways that will preserve the nutrients in the berries as much as possible. Many of the processes done to the berries destroy the nutrients in them. If this is allowed to happen, then there is no good reason for anyone to reach out to buy any acai berry products and pay a lot of money for them. All to often this is the case.

Some companies freeze the acai berries before they are transported. However, this is also challenging because the second the temperature fluctuates, there is a risk that the acai berries will be spoiled immediately. Manufacturers have to spend more money to ensure that the shipping environment is constant. This makes shipping frozen acai berries rather expensive.

Some companies have developed powder-based acai capsules and tablets, therefore making the acai berries' nutrients last longer. However, there are concerns that the nutritional content of these derivative acai berry products may not contain many nutrients at all. The quality of the products is likely to be very low. Taking acai pills and tablets cannot compare to eating fresh acai berries or drinking most of the acai berry juices around.

Then there is the famous freeze drying process for acai berries which is done in a vacuum. Some companies and researchers claim that the freeze drying process is the best way to preserve the nutrients in the acai berry. In a vacuum, the enzymes that cause the acai berry to deteriorate fast are much less active.

The moral of this story is that while acai berries have lots of nutrients in them, the acai berry products that you find may not contain many nutrients at all. You have to pay attention to how the acai berry is processed in order to find out if a product is really good for you. If the product is not nutritious, then there is obviously no point paying a premium price for it. - 17268

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