04.30.06
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04.22.06
Posted in Acai, Acai Berry, Antioxidant, Brazil, Food & Beverage, Fruit, MangoXan, Noni Juice, Palms, Peru, South America, Super Fruits, Tahitian Noni, Tahitians, USA, Xango, blueberries, cranberries, exotic fruit, mangosteen, pomegranate at 8:24 pm by robertvelarde
Berry is ‘world’s healthiest fruit’
ALASTAIR JAMIESON CONSUMER AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
FIRST it was beetroot, then pomegranate, now a Brazilian berry believed to be the healthiest fruit of all has become the latest must-have nutritional ingredient.
Acai, a purple wonder-berry which has twice the cancer-beating antioxidants of blueberries, is already a fashionable food in the United States, where scientists recently found it destroyed four-fifths of cancer cells.
It has already built up a band of celebrity fans, including Oprah Winfrey, the Formula 1 racing driver Rubens Barrichello, tennis star Andre Agassi, the singer Sting and former model Gisele Bundchen.
Pronounced ah-sah-ee, the grape-sized berries will hit Scottish supermarket shelves in June when Waitrose opens its first stores north of the Border.
Currently, it is available only in freeze-dried form at specialist shops such as Brazilian Sensation in Edinburgh, which claims to be Britain’s largest mail-order supplier of the wonder-berry.
“Acai is at the same point as coffee was ten years ago - just about to become really big,” said John Falconer, the owner of Brazilian Sensation. “The number of orders is increasing daily as word spreads about the health benefits.”
Acai berries also have the health-giving omega 6 and omega 9 fatty acids, rarely found in fruit, are low in calories and contain fibre, calcium and vitamins. Doctors say they help to fight leukaemia and premature ageing and the berries are even believed to increase libido. A study by the University of Florida showed that extracts from the berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 per cent of cultured leukaemia cells tested.
Greenpeace and other environmental groups are fans of the fruit, because it is providing an alternative industry to the tree-clearing activities of logging and forestry in its native Brazil.
The first bottled juice version, made by a firm called Happy Monkey, will be sold by Waitrose from June - the month it opens two stores in Edinburgh.
Hamish McCall, the managing director of Happy Monkey, created the drink after a holiday in Rio de Janeiro, where he spotted locals drinking a “weird purple, gloopy” concoction.
Although it has become a mainstay of small and trendy juice bars, the Waitrose deal will see it transformed into a nationally available drink to health-conscious shoppers.
In the US, acai juice is now a £2.5 million-a-year industry, after being sold for the first time just over five years ago.
Mr McCall explained: “The acai is arguably the single most nutritionally beneficial fruit on earth.
“People are becoming increasingly aware of what they are putting into their bodies.
“There are some hurdles to overcome,” he admitted. “No-one has heard of the acai berry - and people can’t even pronounce its name - but it has a really distinctive taste which will appeal to a lot of people.”
Mr Falconer added that the freeze-dried version sold in his Edinburgh store could be used as an ingredient in everything from milk-shakes and sorbets to puddings and sauces. “It is very versatile,” he said.
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http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=604372006
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04.01.06
Posted in Acai, Acai Berry, Antioxidant, Brazil, Food & Beverage, Fruit, MangoXan, Noni Juice, Palms, Peru, South America, Super Fruits, Tahitian Noni, Tahitians, USA, Xango, blueberries, cranberries, exotic fruit, mangosteen, pomegranate at 12:18 pm by robertvelarde
Source: http://www.foodnavigator.com
Breaking News on Food & Beverage Development - Europe
31/03/2006- So-called super fruits could prove to be the success story of 2006, according to Innova Market Insights.
Super fruits set to dominate flavour market
The analyst says that the increasing popularity of berries and berry flavours in recent years is now extending to other less well-known super fruits, such as pomegranate, mangosteen, acai and noni, which are all being marketed on their antioxidant content and associated health benefits.
This could have a knock-on effect into other sectors. Datamonitor recently said that in Europe, the increased popularity of exotic fruit contributed significantly to a growth rate of 26 per cent for the European organic food industry between 2001 and 2004. The US market looks to be following suit.
Innova said that berry flavours have been popular for a number of years, with initial interest in summer fruits, such as strawberries and raspberries. This has gradually given way to fruits marketed more strongly on a health platform, such as cranberries and blueberries.
In total, 5,291 food and drinks launches featuring berries were tracked by Innova in 2005, making it the second most popular flavour overall, behind chocolate on 7,247 launches.
The analyst also said that more exotic and less well-known fruits are starting to come to the fore, with over 100 product launches containing pomegranate tracked over the year, for example.
Scientific research to date has centred on the antioxidant and related heart-health properties of pomegranate and pioneers include the Pom Wonderful juice brand, available in both the US and the UK, marketed on a clear health platform.
Launched in the US in 2003, it led the refrigerated juice category by the end of 2004, and is also available in the UK, where its unusual packaging, premium pricing and heart-health positioning have attracted considerable interest.
The Pomegreat ambient juice drink brand is also growing strongly in the UK, while the US has seen its first refrigerated organic pomegranate juice with the launch by Fruttzo’s.
Another new star on the super fruit horizon is acai, a purple berry from Brazil. It claims a long list of benefits, including greater energy and stamina, improved digestion, better mental focus and improved sleep, although with just 13 launches of products with acai tracked by Innova in 2005, it has some way to go to catch pomegranate.
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Asia’s so-called queen of fruits, the mangosteen, is also seeing an activity in the form of drinks, such as Xango and MangoXan, moving from an network marketing to traditional health food distribution in the US, an and from there perhaps to the mainstream market.
Meanwhile, noni, a tropical fruit found primarily in the South Pacific\nand traditionally used by Tahitians for its health benefits, is also an one to watch. It was first brought to the US market as Tahitian Noni\nJuice in 1996, and first gained approval for use in the EU by Tahitian Noni International in 2003 under Novel Foods legislation.
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Asia’s so-called queen of fruits, the mangosteen, is also seeing activity in the form of drinks, such as Xango and MangoXan, moving from network marketing to traditional health food distribution in the US, and from there perhaps to the mainstream market.
Meanwhile, noni, a tropical fruit found primarily in the South Pacific and traditionally used by Tahitians for its health benefits, is also one to watch. It was first brought to the US market as Tahitian Noni Juice in 1996, and first gained approval for use in the EU by Tahitian Noni International in 2003 under Novel Foods legislation.
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Definitions of acai on the Web:
Açaí Palm Euterpe is a genus of 25-30 species of palms native to tropical Central and South America, from Belize south to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly in floodplains and swamps. They are tall slender attractive palms growing to 15-30 m tall, with pinnate leaves up to 3 m long. The fruit is a very small, round, black-purple drupe, produced in branched panicles of 700-900 fruits. Its appearance is similar to that of a grape, but it has a smaller amount of pulp and a single large seed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acai
he genus is named after the muse Euterpe of Greek mythology. The vernacular name is also sometimes spelled Assai Palm in English.
Uses
Açaí are used (particularly Euterpe edulis) for their ‘palm heart‘ eaten as a steamed dish, and (particularly Euterpe oleracea) for their highly-prized fruits that are rich in B vitamins, minerals (particularly iron), fibre, proteins, Omega-3 fatty acids, and anthocyanin, a member of the flavonoid class of antioxidants. The extraction of the palm’s heart (the soft inner growing tip) involves the inevitable death of the palm as its growing tip is removed, and it cannot recover. Some species are self suckering, not single stem, and produce multiple stems, sometimes up to 40 on one plant, so harvesting palm heart is not such an environmental problem as the original stock plant can live on. Given that harvesting is still a costly and labour intensive task, palm heart dishes are regarded as a delicacy more than a staple diet - palm’s heart is sometimes called ‘Millionaire’s Salad’ due to the high price. The juice and pulp of açaí fruits are frequently used in various beverages and smoothies. In Brazil, it is very popular among surfers when prepared as a thick smoothie topped with granola. Acai fruits deteriorate rapidly after harvest, so outside its growing region it is generally only available as juice or frozen fruit pulp. The frozen fruit pulp is very deep purple and is reminiscent of a blueberry sorbet or ice cream with a hint of chocolate. It can also be eaten raw or used as a condiment, most commonly with shrimp or manioc. It is considered one of the most nutritious fruits of the Amazon, second perhaps to the Brazil Nut. The leaves of the tree are often used in weaving and basket making.
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