Fiber acts like a sponge and soaks up sugar in the foods you eat, and releases it slowly, helping control blood sugar levels. It also reduces cholesterol absorption and excretion, therefore reducing blood cholesterol. But that's not all. Foods that are high in fiber expand in the stomach and intestine like a sponge, to help you feel full, and these foods tend to be those low in energy. These foods are said to have low energy density. If you compare to a bag of candy, there is no fiber in it and they are very high in energy, and candy does not act like a sponge and expand in your stomach to help you feel full and stop eating!

CAOH® Acai berries can help you bulk up your diet with fiber, and therefore decrease its energy density. This way you!ll be eating less energy for the same weight of food and therefore help in weight management. CAOH® organic freeze dried Acai has a fiber content of 1.35g (per 5g serve) compared with an apple (1.8g) or a weetbix (1.8g). In an Acai berry smoothie with 3 scoops of organic freeze dried All the information on acai berries. powder, you get around 4g of dietary fiber! The recommended intake is  suggested to be 30g of fiber per day.

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A heart friendly diet not only protects us from dangerous health related conditions. One of the key aspects of a heart friendly diet is the inclusion of fruits and vegetables and the replacement of saturated fat in the diet by unsaturated fats. One way that antioxidants guard against health conditions is by protecting the LDL, or bad cholesterol from oxidizing – which is what forms plaque in our arteries and hence cause atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.

CAOH® Acai is cholesterol-free. It is naturally cholesterol-free since cholesterol only comes from animal products! Why do we want to lower our cholesterol? This is because it is linked to heart disease. CAOH® Acaí berries are not only cholesterol-free, but low in the heart-clogging saturated fat and high in the heart-friendly unsaturated fats and fiber. Together, these nutrients help reduce cholesterol.

Let!s take a look at the types of fat in CAOH® Acaí. There are three types of fats found in our foods. Saturated fat, polyunsaturated fay, and monounsaturated fat. Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats tend to be liquid at room temperature (your vegetable oils, with the exception of coconut and palm which are mainly saturated). Acai berries are low in saturated fats. These are the fats that increase your cholesterol and clog up your arteries. The Acai berry contains the unsaturated fats omega-6 and omega-9 (a classification of the type of unsaturated fats), which reduce LDL-cholesterol levels (think L = Low, so we want them to be low in our blood) when they replace saturated fats in our diet.

Acai is richer in monounsaturated fats than polyunsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats maintain the good HDL-cholesterol levels (think H = healthy, or you want it to be high) in our blood. Monounsaturated fats are less susceptible to oxidation than polyunsaturated oils. This makes monounsaturated fats a heart-healthy choice.

Recall that CAOH® Acai is a good source of dietary fiber. Dietary fiber helps lower cholesterol and maintains sugar levels in our body.

CAOH® Acai is a true heart-friendly fruit!

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CAOH® Acai is a unique fruit, because it contains a wide variety of these essential vitamins and minerals. Acai is packed with vitamin E, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium!

Let's take a look at what CAOH® Acai offers:

Vitamin E

Acai is rich in vitamin E. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin which has antioxidant properties. Vitamin E protects our cells, especially their membranes from oxidation, or “destruction”. It also helps prevent the healthy unsaturated fats from being oxidized.

Iron

Iron is needed by our body!s red blood cells to carry oxygen and so it literally helps our cells to make energy. This is one of the reasons why Acai is so energetic! Like other plant derived iron, the iron in Acai berries is not absorbed very well in our bodies. One way to change this is to ensure you have Vitamin C with it. Vitamin C is found in citrus foods and juices. So by mixing CAOH® Acai berries with juice, it helps boost your iron intake!

Calcium

We need calcium for our bones and teeth to develop properly, for their maintenance, and for our muscles and heart to function. Calcium is deposited in our bones and teeth, making them strong. If we do not consume enough calcium in our diet, our bones become more and more porous, which means that a slight fall may break your bones! That is why it is so important to maintain an adequate calcium intake throughout our lives. The new Australian and New Zealand recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) states that we need 1000mg of Calcium per day. CAOH® organic freeze dried Acai provides you with 51.9mg with every 3 scoops.

Magnesium

Magnesium is a mineral needed for our bodies to produce energy. It also helps our bodies in regulating potassium and calcium. It is important in bone formation and muscles.

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is another important mineral. It is part of our DNA, cell membranes and enzymes, is needed to maintain our bones and teeth strong, and in our body's energy metabolism.

Potassium

Potassium is also a mineral. it is invovled in muscle contraction, maintaining a proper fluid balance in our cells, and blood pressure control.

Next time you reach for your CAOH® Acai, keep in mind the guilt-free goodness inside that packet of fruit!

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What does this exotic fruit have that gives you sustained energy throughout the day? Carbohydrates and fiber. But not all carbohydrates give you sustained energy. Carbohydrates, when digested, release glucose, or sugar into our blood. The measure of the extent of the sugar rise caused after a food is eaten is called the Glycemic Index (or GI). The lower the GI of a food, the slower the food is digested and absorbed, producing a gradual rise in blood sugar levels. Foods such as white bread or jelly beans, when eaten, cause your blood sugar to rise very quickly. A blood sugar that is too high or too low is dangerous for our bodies. So when sugar rises, it stimulates the pancreas to release insulin into the blood. Insulin tells all our cells to open up their “gates” and let sugar in. This then causes the blood sugar level to drop again. When we consume foods that release sugar quickly, our bodies tend to release too much insulin.

Too much insulin means that too much sugar is taken up by our cells, and causes our sugar level to drop to under normal levels. This is the low that you usually feel after a sugar “rush”. It does not give you sustained energy and tends to make you feel tired and fatigued. CAOH® Acai berry pulp has a glycemic load of 0.5. The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to determine the impact of carbohydrate in our blood. It gives a fuller picture than GI alone, since it considers the amount of carbohydrate consumed. A GL of 10 or less is considered low, therefore helping control blood sugar levels.

CAOH® Acai has a glycemic load of 0.5, meaning that it provides sustained energy for today’ss busy lifestyle. The dietary fiber in Acai acts like a sponge, mixes with all the digestive juices in our bodies binding to the good we have eaten, and helps to slow down digestion. Instead of getting a sugar rush after a meal, the sugar is released slowly, giving you sustained energy! This also helps control appetite and delays hunger, which may help in a diet program.

Unlike most juices, most of the Acai berries kilo joules come not from sugar but from the healthy unsaturated omega-6 and omega-9 fats. This is one juice you can fell good about drinking! It will fill you up due to its fiber content and at the same time give you sustained energy, unlike other fruit juices! The Acai berry is usually mixed with apple juice, which has a low GI- to give you the same sustained energy as a CAOH® Acai smoothie. So next time that you are looking for a pick-me-up, look for CAOH® Acai at your local health food store.

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Betty

A: Betty,

Thank you for the question. The % of seed in our Absolute Acai is “0.00%, none, zero, nada.” It is 100% organic freeze dried acai flesh and skins.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc