Acai berries – powerful antioxidant, but big differences between different products

Healthnut — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:09:36 +0000

Acai berries – one of the most talked about or maybe even hyped superfoods.

Coming from the purple fruit of the Acai Palm (Euterpe oleracea), Acai is a potent antioxidant.

3 different studies (the PubMed links below) have all concluded Acai to have really good antioxidant properties.

“The antioxidant capacities of all purple açaí samples were found to be excellent against peroxyl radicals, good against peroxynitrite and poor against hydroxyl radicals compared with common European fruit and vegetable juices recently analysed.”

“The extracts exhibit good antioxidant capacity against peroxyl radicals, similar to the capacity of the pulp. The antioxidant capacity against peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radicals is even higher.”

Mike Adams had this to say:

“The Acai berry is one of the highest. Its ORAC score is 167, compared with 32 for blueberries and 14 for apples”

A AIBMR Life Sciences study led by Alex Schauss looked at a freeze-dried Acai product called OptiAcai and found it to have an ORAC score of 1026.9 which suggests that there’s a great difference in potency between different brands.

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