Acai Berry: for Healthy Nutrition

Acai berry is one of the highly nutritious foods we have on this planet. The nutrition quality and quantity of acai berry is unmatched with any other food available to us for routine consumption and also as food supplementation. Acai berry is also called a super-food because of its unique and high quality (as well as quantity) nutrition contents. The most important health benefits of acai berry comes from the high amount of antioxidants it has in it, which no other food can come near to acai berry in it.

Nutritional contents of acai berry are very high. Some of the nutritional values of acai berry are given here. To most of us acai berry is available in powder form after freeze-drying acai fruit pulp and skin. 100 gram of this freeze-dried acai fruit pulp and skin contain 534 kcal of energy, 8.1 gram proteins (more than 7.5% of total dry weight is amino acids), 52.2 gram (out of 52.2 g of carbohydrate, 42.2 gram is fiber content and can not be assimilated) carbohydrates and 32.5 gram fat. 100 gram of freeze-dried acai fruit pulp and skin also contain calcium (260 mg), iron (4.4 mg), vitamin A (1000 IU), aspartic acid, glutamic acid etc. The fats of acai berry are mainly oleic acid (52.2% of total fat), palmitic acid (24.1% of total fat) and linoleic acid (12.5% of total fat).

The antioxidants of acai berry are anthocyanins (approximately 3.19 mg per gram of acai powder) and many other antioxidants. There are many nutrition blogs that are dedicated for the goodness of antioxidants of acai berry. But if you want to buy acai berry online you should select a good nutrition blog for learning about acai berry before buying it. Many blogs are mushrooming at present, but while selecting one, you should e careful and do some research on your own.

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