
Given the right conditions, the acai berry diet seed could be planted and grown. To understand this better though, acai grows in the forests of the Amazon where there is enough water, dampness and a generally tropical climate. When acai is grown by independent farmers, acai production will be multiplied that could benefit more consumers and the prices could go down as a result of the competition.
Prior to its popularity, acai was this berry that could be afforded by the natives along the Amazon. When it captured the worlds’ imagination, the humble berry gained an overnight popularity that demands shoot up spiking prices.
In places where it is grown, acai berry or acai pits are mostly thrown. What are consumed are the pulp and the skin. This is where the nutrition comes. What they do to the seed is spit it out or collect them as extenders for hog feed.
Acai berry is a small fruit that contains 80% seeds. Conversely the fruit and the pulp is only 20% in volume but 90% of the nutrients of acai comes from the skin and the pulp. The other nutrients that comprise the remaining 10% do not necessarily all come from the seed. The least that could be said of the acai berry seed is that it contains little but that is not yet conclusive. And so buyers are to be cautioned when purchasing acai health supplements and drinks.
Customers who buy acai berry preparation that are made mainly or even in part from the seed (that is being passed off as acai berry health supplement) will be in for frustration. Everything good that we hear about the berry concern only the pulp and the skin, it was never about the seed.
Acai berry like any other product in the marketplace is consumer-driven and is subject to market forces. When the demand exceeds the production, short cuts and augmentation to the product is sometimes taken. When buying acai preparations then, ask only for the preparations where you get most of the benefits for the buck that is shelled out.
Acai seeds are good only to the extent that they are cultivated and grown to produce acai berries. Other than that the seeds are mostly nothing.
Whatever benefit like colon cleansing, anti-aging, & losing weight that could be derived from it may not justify the price but is made and sold riding alone on the popularity of the berries.
Aside from making acai berry diet seeds as food extenders for their animals, the natives along the Amazon has another great use for the acai seed. They turn them into beads and trinkets, clearly suggesting that the original consumers of acai berry find that the seeds are never good as food.
MY Diva Diet Creator and Author — Ms. Fitness USA Finalist 1990



