Acai berries grow wild on palm trees in the Amazon rainforest in South America. Superfruit’s Acai capsules consists of 100% freeze-dried acai powder. Acai is a concentrated source of polyphenol antioxidants.
Acai capsules are a simple and convenient dietary supplement for those who do not like to mix the powder into drinks. Acai contains 30 times more polyphenols than red wine and 3-6 times as many polyphenols as blueberries. Fresh acai has an ORAC (oxygen-radical absorbance capacity) value of 184 μmolTE/g compared with cultivated blueberries at 32 and wild blueberries at 61 μmolTE/g.
The energy of acai comes from essential fatty acids. Acai powder contains polyunsaturated omega 6 (3%) and mono-unsaturated omega 9 (13%). Most of the carbohydrate intake (67% overall) from consumption of Acai powder is fiber (62.5%) of which 59% is insoluble fiber.
Acai powder contains almost no sugar and has a GI <1, making it suitable for sugar free diets. From the daily dose you also get 21% of the RDA of iron. Superfruit’s capsules contain no fillers. The capsule itself is made of vegetable cellulose and is therefore 100% Vegetarian.
Organic freeze-dried Açaí berry powder (Euterpe oleracea Mart.). The fruit comes from Brazil. Vegetable capsules: cellulose.
2 capsules daily with meals.Recommended dose should not be exceeded.
This product should not be taken by people who know they are hypersensitive to Açaí fruit.Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied diet.
