Acai Recipes

These delicious acai recipes make it easy to add more acai into your daily diet. Enjoy acai berry daily in these acai recipes for tremendous health benefits.

I am a huge believer in buying organic foods so I highly encourage you to use organic or wild grown whenever possible.

Acai Smoothie

Combine in blender. Pulse blender to break up ice and blend for an additional 15 to 30 seconds.

Benefits: You get all the nutrition and goodness of the acai berry.

Oranges provide vitamin C which is one of the premier antioxidants on the planet, as well as 170 cancer fighting polyphenols, and 60 flavinoids which are plant compounds with antioxidant, anticancer, and antiallergy properties.

Bananas provide 3 to 4 grams of fiber, 422 mg of potassium (low potassium is often associated with muscle cramps), and fructoogliosaccarides. Fructo-what??? You've probably heard of "good bacteria" and "live active cultures" found in yogurt. Well these good bacteria that live in your digestive system need food to eat too. Fructoogliosaccarides are the food that they like best and it keeps them alive and healthy. Good gut bacteria equals good digestion and good health!!

Acai Bowl

Toppings:

Granola
Banana slices
Honey (raw, organic, unfiltered if you want healthy honey)

Combine in blender and blend until smooth. Pour into bowl and top with sliced banana, granola and optional honey.

Delicious and filling for a snack anytime or a healthy breakfast or lunch!

Benefits: You get all the nutrition and goodness of the acai berry.

Apples provide a whole lot of phytochemicals and flavinoids including quercitin, catechin, phloridzin, and chlorogenic acid. This means strong antioxidant power to help your body reduce oxidative stress and increase cancer fighting ability.

Bananas provide 3 to 4 grams of fiber, 422 mg of potassium (low potassium is often associated with muscle cramps), and fructoogliosaccarides. Fructo-what??? You've probably heard of "good bacteria" and "live active cultures" found in yogurt. Well these good bacteria that live in your digestive system need food to eat too. Fructoogliosaccarides are the food that they like best and it keeps them alive and healthy. Good gut bacteria equals good digestion and good health!!

Raw Organic Honey Honey is known for its anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal properties. Okay, let's face it, the benefits of honey can fill a whole book! It has large amount of good bacteria, it is high in antioxidants, it possesses healing powers for everything from relieving a sore throat, to allergies, to healing wounds, and more. We'll leave it at that but you can do a Google search and find volumes on the health benefits of honey. Just remember that the supermarket honey that comes in the cute little bear does not contain these benefits!

Tropical Acai Smoothie for 2

Combine in blender. Pulse blender to break up chunks and blend for an additional 15 to 30 seconds. This acai recipe may even make enough for 3!

Benefits: You get all the nutrition and goodness of the acai berry.

Bananas provide 3 to 4 grams of fiber, 422 mg of potassium (low potassium is often associated with muscle cramps), and fructoogliosaccarides. Fructo-what??? You've probably heard of "good bacteria" and "live active cultures" found in yogurt. Well these good bacteria that live in your digestive system need food to eat too. Fructoogliosaccarides are the food that they like best and it keeps them alive and healthy. Good gut bacteria equals good digestion and good health!!

Mangoes are known as the "king of fruit". They contain a lot of potassium (323 mg), vitamin A and beta carotene, plus they have some vitamin C, vitamin K, calcuim, phosphorus, magnesium and folate as well as several other nutrients. They are a rich source of enzymes and one mango contains 3 1/2 grams of fiber.

Papaya is one of the best sources of digestive enzymes. It contains papain, which is a proteolytic enzyme that helps to break down and digest protein and may have anti-inflammatory properties. A cup of cubed papaya has 360 mg of potassium, 34 mg of calcium, 2.5 grams of fiber, 87 mg of vitamin C, 53 mcg of folate, 1500 IU's of vitamin A, 386 mcg of beta-carotene, and 105 mcg of the eye protective carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. Vitamin A and vitamin C are both essential for proper immune functioning.

Acai juice and Acai smoothies can be a healthful part of a whole body or colon cleanse and detoxification program.

These smoothie makers can be a useful tool in the kitchen if you're a smoothie lover like I am!

More acai recipes to come....

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