19/01/2022
🍇Acai Berry Benefits:
Very High in Antioxidants & Nutrients
No doubt about it, there’s quite a long list of health benefits that are attributed to acai berries. Most of the benefits you’ll get from eating acai berry are due to the berry’s extremely high antioxidant content, which is why it’s said to have a high ‘ORAC score’.
🍇ORAC stands for ‘Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity’, which is a scale that measures the antioxidant properties of foods. ORAC values are used to classify foods by how many antioxidants they contain based on weight. Acai berry high on the list!
🍇Purple acai berries actually get their distinct colour due to high concentrations of the pigmented nutrients they contain, especially anthocyanins, which are found in many reddish-purple berry species. The concentration of antioxidants in acai is believed to be 10 times higher those in red grapes, and acai is estimated to have 10 to 30 times the amount of anthocyanins than red wine!
🍇Antioxidants including anthocyanin contribute to the anti-inflammatory, anti-ageing benefits of acai berries. That’s because antioxidants are ‘free radical scavengers’, which means they help slow the process of free radical damage (also called ‘oxidative stress’) that causes the body to deteriorate and develop ailments over time.
🍇Free radicals are responsible for the ‘wear and tear’ we attribute to ageing and they enter the body through things like a poor diet, chemical exposure, environmental pollution and high amounts of UV light exposure. Not only does free radical damage make us look older faster, by damaging our skin – it also contributes to joint, skeletal and muscular pains.
🍇By helping the body remain more resilient to the effects of free radicals, acai is beneficial for nearly every bodily system: cardiovascular, endocrine, digestive, neurological, immune, etc. Plus when it comes to acai’s anti-ageing effects – good things come in small packages! Studies show antioxidants in acai are able to enter the cells in a fully functional form and to perform oxygen quenching functions even at very low doses.
