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Acai Berry has a special place in my heart: until very recently I was ABSOLUTELY dead against anything to do with it. The problem was that like so many other people who had tried to get acai supplements on a ‘free trial’, I got stung. I was convinced that I would just pay the shipping, try the supplements, and just go from there. Simple? Of course not.

Mine is a familiar story. You’ve all heard about the ’scam’ with these so-called acai berry Free Trial Offers; my first adventure into acai berry was, unfortunately, absolutely no different. To cut a long story short I had to cancel my credit card because the company that sold me the acai product were unreachable and definitely not too eager to perform any customer service. Great. It wasn’t even like the supplements they sent me were that good, and they were undoubtedly way overpriced.

After this little disappointment I went on a bit of a mission to try and find a legit company that would provide me with real acai, and not blatantly steal my hard-earned cash.

I found Acai Berry Ultra-Slim and it looked just fine – don’t they always? – mainly because it promised to suppress hunger: apparently acai does this just fine anyway, but Acai Berry Ultra-Slim actually emphasizes this benefit with the addition of something called Essentra Slim. On top of this you get all the usual benefits of acai berry. So far so good. The site was called Acai Berry Site.

Of course, the astute reader will know that this was just acai berry marketing pitch at its finest. The last company that I ordered from impressed me with their sales pitch, too, and look what happened there! A little more research was required, and I checked out the company that sold Ultra-Slim as well as those that manufactured it. I also read the Terms and Conditions very, very carefully and, thankfully, there was no indication that there would be any re-bills at all.

I decided to bite the bullet and go for it.

I’m on my third bottle of acai berry puree now, and I’m convinced I’m better for it. I’m also absolutely thrilled that, for once, this acai supplier does not feel the need to steal money from my card! Ultra-Slim was a the right choice.

The benefits of acai berry supplements are quickly gaining a foothold in many households where people want the benefits of acai without the hassle of having to integrate acai purees or acai preserves into their diets. Maybe people don’t like the taste of acai but still want the benefits: this is where acai supplements play their role, too.

The acai is a wonderful little fruit — often referred to as a berry but actually a drupe — that grows on the top of the acai palm in the Brazilian rain forest The acai grows in large bunches of between 900 and 700 berries, and is harvested by the local population. The local population know the value of acai and eat tremendous amounts of it: up to 42% of their total food intake by weight consists of acai.

Acai has a high fat content — that’s mono unsaturated fat: ‘good fat’ — and this means that it degrades very quickly one it has been picked. Getting an acai berry out of Brazil intact is a challenge in itself. To counter this problem distributors make great products like acai berry supplements. Acai supplements have the benefits, and are not only easy to transport across the world, but are also incredibly convenient for those using them once they get there.

One of the easiest ways to get acai goodness into the daily routine of a busy family is through the introduction of acai supplements. One of the benefits of acai berry supplements contain all the nutrients and valuable antioxidants that you would find in the raw berry itself. Unfortunately you are unlikely ever to be able to make that comparison, since you are unlikely to ever see a ‘real’ acai berry before it has degraded beyond recognition: the fruit degrades extremely quickly in even the most favorable circumstances.

The fruit of the acai palm is not, in fact, a berry. It is a drupe. The drupe is about 25mm in diameter with a seed inside that takes up around 80% of the fruit’s volume. It looks a lot like a grape but, by virtue of the much larger seed, has a good deal less flesh on the fruit. The similarities with grapes continue: acai berries grow in large bunches of between 700 and 900 on the acai palm.

Acai berries have a high fat content and it is because of this that the berry doesn’t last long away from the tree. Acai supplements, juices and preserves are the only way to allow the goodness of the acai to travel properly; of these, the benefits of acai berry supplements are perhaps the most convenient.