Acai Berry: Harder Than You Might Think
Getting an acai berry into some sensible packing and onto your kitchen table is much more of a logistical nightmare than may first be imagined. It is not simply a case of picking a berry from a bush, popping it into and envelope and posting to your address.
First you’ve got to get those berries, and when they’re right at the top of a 30m high acai palm in middle of the tropical Amazonian basin then you’ve got immediate problems.
Once you’ve got the acai down from its lofty perch you need to do something with it. Producers don’t make the acai berry into a handy acai juice or into preserves just for the sheer hell of it; it’s not because the berries don’t look great in their natural state, either (they definitely do look great!). It’s just that the acai berry doesn’t react very well to being harvested, and quickly — I mean quickly — because to turn into a sticky mess.
Before the acai berry that you fought so hard to get turns into that sticky mess, you’d better bottle it, pulp it or freeze it to retain any goodness there is inside.
Consider these small obstacles next time you are buying your quality acai products.
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