Monavie is a product made from Acai Berry
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Monavie is a product made from Acai Berry. MonaVie contains 100% fruit Juice, puree and preservatives. Acai Berry is a very nutritious fruit. It grows on the Acai Palm Trees commonly found in Amazon Rainforest of Brazil. It is a small sized grape like berry, dark purple in color. Major part (approximately 90%) consists of seed with little amount of pulp. Usually people use its pulp not the seed.
Nutritional Value:
- Acai Berry or Mona Vie contains highest amount of Antioxidants. It contains 10 times more antioxidant level of grapes and twice of blueberries level. It also contains large amount of Anthocyanins.
- Acai Berry is a rich source of Omega fats. Fat content of Acai is 50% where as 74% of this fat content is healthy unsaturated fats such as Omega 3, Omega 6 and Omega 9.
- Acai Berry or Mona Vie is also considered as a rich source of Proteins and Amino Acids. Protein content is of 7.59% of the total weight of Acai Pulp. Acai pulp has been found to contain 19 different amino acids. This nutritional fact means that there is 8 grams of good quality protein in 100 grams of Acai Berry.
- It is also known to contain plant sterols. These include B-Sitosterol, Campesterol and Sigmasterol. And as we already know that Photo sterols have number of health benefits which includes maintaining healthy heart and digestive functions. This all is true for Mona Vie too.
- Like all other fruits Acai Berry also contains number of vitamins, such as Vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C and E. Acai contains more Vitamin C as compared to Blueberries. It is also rich in Vitamin A. It also contains some minerals other than Vitamins these include potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper and zinc
- Another very important nutritional component it contains is the dietary fiber. Every 100 grams of freeze dried powder contains 14 grams of dietary fiber.
- Acai Berry does not possess excellent nutritional value only, it is a delicious tasting fruit as well. It has both berry and chocolate flavor. It is used in smoothies, deserts and eaten as fruit. (more…)
