Analysis reveals that Açai pulp contains:

• A remarkable concentration of antioxidants, to help combat premature aging, with 10-30 times the anthocyanins (purple colored antioxidants) of red wine.
• A synergy of monounsaturated (healthy) fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols, to help promote cardiovascular system and digestive tract health.
• An almost perfect essential amino acid complex in conjunction with valuable trace minerals, vital to proper muscle contraction and regeneration.
• Açai is a dense source of particular class of flavonoids called anthocyanins (red-blue phenols with potent antioxidant properties)
• The fatty acid ratio of Açai resembles that of olive oil, which is thought to be a contributing factor to the low incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean populations.
• 60 percent Oleic (Omega 9) a monounsaturated, essential fatty acid, helps lower LDL (harmful cholesterol) while maintaining HDL (beneficial cholesterol) levels.
• 12 percent Linoleic (Omega 6) a polyunsaturated, essential fatty acid, has been found to lower both LDL and HDL levels. Fatty acids aid in the transport and absorption of fat-soluble vitamins i.e. Vitamins A, E, D, and K.

Açai contains valuable phytosterols

Sterols are components of plant cell membranes providing numerous benefits to the human body, namely the reduction of blood plasma cholesterol. Sterols are currently being used to treat symptoms associated with BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia). Preliminary evidence suggests that beta-sitosterol (the predominant sterol in Açai) may help prevent immune weakness resulting from severe physical stress.

Historically, while Brazilians have used Açai berries to treat digestive disorders and many other conditions for hundreds of years, Açai was virtually unknown in the rest of the world until the mid 1990’s. Today, that has all changed, and the amount of new medical and scientific research being conducted is rapidly increasing. One such study was conducted at the University of Florida: UF News About Açai

Açai is one of the 16 nutritional fruits in SenSatiaFruit.

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Truly an incredible food and the best part is the Goji Berry in juice form, or dried, tastes great! Sweet and delicious somewhat like a cranberry or a cherry!

Goji is the premier “brain tonic” in Asia. It contains betaine, which is converted in the body into choline, a substance that enhances memory and recall ability
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The dark, purple rind (the Pericarp) of the Mangosteen can be dried and ground, then used to ward off infections both internal and external. Poultices of the Mangosteen fruit were used to treat parasitic skin infections. An extract from the pulp of the fruit was used to control fever.

Mangosteen is packed full of xanthones, polysaccharides, catechins, polyphenols, minerals and vitamins.

Today Mangosteen is available to the world, and most of the scientific research on this fruit involves about a half dozen of the two dozen known xanthones in this fruit.

Pharmaceutical drug companies would love to isolate, synthesize and then patent these substances. Then they could charge consumers their normal 50,000% markup on the resulting drugs.

Xanthones are a class of polyphenolic compounds that commonly occur in plants and have been shown to have extensive biological and pharmacological activities. Recently, the pharmacological properties of xanthones in the cardiovascular system have attracted great interest.

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Since the Sixties, the American public has been brainwashed into accepting biochemically altered food and medicine produced by the food, chemical and pharmaceutical drug industries. The 50’s boasted through the new media phenomenon - Television - “Better Living Through Chemicals”. We believed, and we bought, swallowed and injected and are still consuming them in massive quantities.

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Human beings and animals alike have been so intimately connected to plants for all of our existences we cannot live without them. We connect with plants and exchange with plants right down to our cells and smallest molecules. As an example: Plants give off oxygen as a waste product which we need to breathe, and we in turn expel carbon-dioxide as a waste which plants need to grow.

The same synergistic arrangement occurs when we consume a plant. Plants convert minerals from the soil into soluble minerals that are “bio-available” - our bodies know what to do with plant-based minerals. Plants contain phyto-nutrients to heal us like nothing else can. Our reliance on plants has been part of every human society. Plants and human beings harmonize on levels that we still don’t understand. Why do we grow flowers, or trees that bear no fruit? It’s because we like to look at them and interact with them on some kind of metaphysical plane!
Quality of Food Equals Quality of Life

It really doesn’t matter what your beliefs are about how we came into existence on this planet. Continue Reading »

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