Acai Berry vs. Supermarket Fruit

[LoriL]

Hi,

Where I live there are no stores that sell organic fruit. I've been told that supermarket fruits are picked before they are rippened and have their full nutrients, hence we are buying "empty" fruits. I just found about the acai berry from www.mymonavie.com/midwestmonavie and am supplimenting supermarket fruit with this. I heard about it being the perfect superfood with antioxidants, amino acids, etc. Not perfect but this is as good as I can do at the moment.

[Pierre]

There is no one perfect superfood ;) Each one is super in its own way. I have some camu-camu on order. AçaÃ* has vitamin C, but not nearly as much as camu-camu.

I first tasted açaÃ* in Brazil, and am addicted. One of these years I'd like to travel to Belém, the only city where you can get fresh açaÃ* (anywhere else, even Manaus, it has to be frozen for transport).

Here I can get (could, the season is winding down) organic vine-ripe tomatoes. They are uniformly deep red, as opposed to the ones in the regular grocery store, which have green patches. I can also get açaÃ*, but it's pasteurized. Why they pasteurize something that's shipped frozen, I don't know.

[rawnora]

It serves the interests of the people who sell these supposed 'super' foods to have us thinking the only way we can get all our nutrients is to eat them. The idea that we can somehow make up for eating underripe or otherwise inferior fruit, or replace it altogether with over-hyped, processed, exotic products is false. It is also false that health seekers need to eat only organic fruit. Organic is only one criterion, and not even the most important. More important are ripeness, quality and freshness. All things being equal, organic is better, of course, but if you live in an area where organic is hard to come by you'll have a hard time staying raw unless you open yourself up to conventionally grown produce.

Well wishes,
Nora
www.RawSchool.com