ABOUT ACAI BERRY

The Acai Berry fruit, a small, round, black-purple fruit is about 1 inch in diameter, kind of like a grape and grows on a very tall palm tree ony found deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Two crops of fruit are pare grown per year. The Acai berry fruit has a single large seed that takes up a lot of the berry. The skin of a ripe berry is a deep purple colour, or green, depending on the kind of Acai that it is.
For hundreds of years, the locals have harvested the berries as food. The Acai palm is incredibly important as it makes up a lot of the diet for the people in the area and is the biggest cash crop for it’s area of Brazil.