What we know about the Acai Berry (Acai Berry) Acai Berry is a small purple fruit the size of a cherry, which grows in the Amazon rainforest tree genus Euterpe Palm (Euterpe Oleracea). Taste defined most often as a combination of blackberries and nuts. Although relatively unknown to us, indigenous peoples for centuries to benefit from his medical skills. Origin and History of the Acai Berry According to legend, centuries ago, one of the Indian tribes that inhabited the lands around the mouth of the Amazon River in the northeast of Brazil (where today the modern city of Bell ѐ m (Belen)

has fallen on hard times. Equatoria Forest unable to provide adequate food for all, hunger and widely conflicts over scarce resources.'s supreme leader has decided to artificially reduce the population and ordered all newborn child to be killed, including a child of his beloved daughter, Yassa. Yasa was heartbroken. Inconsolable crying for several days at home. Once she heard children crying from the woods. Young Yasa immediately went in search of a child crying and went deep in the woods. Instead, she found the baby enormous palm trees, the dominant among the other trees and covered with abundant fruit. Yasa realized that if people knew her for such fruit will not starve and her child would be alive. Quivering with tears, she fell and died of grief. And he found her body - fell on a massive palm, covered with delicious purple fruit. Old chief decided that the tree should remind everyone of his missing daughter, and called palm (Yasa, but upside down), which literally means "fruit that cries." Thanks to a recently discovered source of nutrition for children carnage stopped, and the tribe survived. In 1616, the Portuguese captain, Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco in December to build military strength to do Forte (now Castello) to protect the region from attacks by the French, Dutch and English pirates. Together with the Europeans come and infectious diseases that are actually caused the deaths of 9 / 10 is indigenous shall not be immune to them. Little Indian community near Belem survived mainly due to the immunostimulatory properties of fruit Acai. Since then, Brazilians have used Acai Berry as energy and immune-boosting supplement to their traditional diet. In recent years, Acai Berry has gained popularity as one of the most nutritious foods in the world. One reason is the popular American TV host Oprah Winfrey, one of which broadcasts in 2008, presented a list of ten most useful food in the world and Blueberry Acai was among them. Effect, which produces the Oprah audience on trust is a strong, although somewhat earlier, and she praised the quality of food KFC, this list is to generate greater demand for Acai. The extreme popularity of the equatorial fruit quickly trade to such an extent that forced Oprah about a year publicly said he has nothing to do with the production and marketing of products containing acai.