As the most highly effective and versatile nutraceutical on today’s natural and organic health products market, Açaí in its many available forms is currently the number one super food. From its start as a powerful and versatile healing agent first used by ancient herbal practitioners in Brazil’s beautiful Amazon Rainforests, Amazon Thunder acai has prevailed to become the present-day ultra mega-vitamin and celebrity health supplement. Since the whole Acai berry becomes perishable 24 hours after it is harvested, the great bulk of acai on the popular market is in juice, puree or pulp form. Although acai berries can be freeze-dried for convenient transport to destinations quite distant from the Amazon regions of its origins and current most lucrative crops, acai is most often sold as acai juice, or in combination with other natural or organic ingredients in natural health products currently available on the natural health products market. Acai in its varied forms is usually available as acai juice, or combined with other natural or organic components in natural health products now on the market, even though it is possible to freeze-dry acai berries for easy shipping to distant destinations from the Amazon where it originates and continues to grow for harvest.

Currently, there are other nutrient enriched fruit products for sale by the natural and organic health supplements industry—for example, noni juice, harvested for commercial use mainly in Tahiti and Hawaii. Employed from the early practice of folk medicine as an extremely effective and diverse remedy, noni juice is from the noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia). Historically, it has been documented as aiding in the treatment of myriad health disorders, diseases and conditions. Improving its attractiveness as a nutrient-rich natural product, most sources of today’s commercially grown noni fruit are harvested in areas reporting low levels of pollution. Another currently popular natural fruit is the mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), still grown mainly in Southeast Asia. The importance of mangosteen as a highly effective overall health-enhancer and healing aid was first noted by Southeast Asian scribes in 600 AD. Although Queen Victoria dubbed the exotic and flavorful mangosteen the “Queen of Fruits”, neither it nor the popular noni fruit contain the unique blend of complex and completely essential vitamins, minerals and myriad enriching nutrients which combine to form the acai berry.

The acai berry has traditionally been harvested from a variety of Amazon palm tree found in Brazil’s lush Rainforests, while the majority of today’s top quality mega-foods are hydroponically grown (cultivated in water). For its first place rating as the present star super food and ultimate whole food mega-vitamin, this may be partially responsible. With its abundance of super-powered antioxidants and highest levels of vitamins, minerals and concentrated organic nutrients, the acai berry, Açaí juice, acai puree and acai pulp are the most highly effective single-food health product available today for promoting robust total physical and mental health; and cleansing, detoxifying and completely revitalizing the human being as a whole.