By now, you may have heard all about the Acai berry and how it is one of the hottest things in the health market. Many news reports talk about the acai berry. Oprah talks about the acai berry. Rachel Ray also featured the acai berry on her show. There are many credible and popular sources that have mentioned the acai berry in one way or another.

Although you may have heard about the acai berry for the first time, this berry is not a new berry or organically created in a lab to contain amazing properties. The acai berry has been around for a very long time but it was tucked away deep in the rain forests, unknown to most people elsewhere in the world.

The acai berry grows on a tall, large tree called Euterpe oleracea but most people just refer to the tree as the acai palm tree. The acai palm tree can have many trunks. Some of them have just a few trunks but there are some that have 25 trunks. Each acai berry tree can be as tall as 25 meters tall and as wide as six inches in diameter.

Each acai berry tree has many branches dropping down from it like flowing ribbons. The branches cluttered together and on them are the acai berries. Each acai berry is on a branch is very close to the next berry on the same branch.

The acai berry is a small, rounded fruit of the acai palm tree. It is deep and dark purple in color. Sometimes, the acai berry can be so dark that the color is almost black. Each acai palm tree produces many acai berry fruit, 20kg per year is common.

Like most berries, the acai berry is edible. Many people eat the acai berry as fruit but some make use of other parts of the berry too. The acai pulp is where most of the nutrients are and it is very commonly used in wines, liqueurs, or as food flavoring or colorant. The acai berry has many uses so it is not surprising that there are many acai berry products around.

The acai berry is one of the healthiest fruit around. There are many medicinal properties of the acai berry so many people eat it for health reasons as well as taste. The acai pulp is rich with minerals and nutrients. Some researchers have shown that the acai berry is all you need to stay healthy.

While people now learn that the acai berry has many extraordinary health benefits, fresh acai berries are not commonly available in most countries. Sadly, the acai berry that was once hand picked is now mass harvested so that acai berry products can be shipped worldwide. This can of course decrease the effectiveness of the acai berry by the time it gets to you.