Acai puree or acai juices are one of the more popular ways to consume acai berries. If you visit the Amazon rain forest or happen to live there, you may have fresh acai berries as a apart of your every day meals. Otherwise, if you live anywhere else in the world, you will have to drink acai juice or buy acai puree to make your own acai juice or smoothie. The reason for this is simple: acai berries ripen very rapidly. And once harvested, the ripening process continues, still with rapid speed. Even with today's more advanced processing techniques, we can not keep the acai berries from rotting before they reach foreign markets.
Therefore, acai juice concentrates are produced in South American and shipped all over the world. If you want to enjoy the benefits of acai berries along with the natural taste, you will have to purchase it as a juice or puree. These are packaged as the berries are pureed and freeze-dried as soon as they are harvested.
Acai juice is mixed with anything you can imagine to make a delicious and refreshing drink. You can blend the acai juices with ice cream, yogurt, mild, ice, or any other juice to make a nutritionally powerful health drink.
Acai juice and puree both have a unique taste. If you have ever eaten any tropical fruit, you know they tend to have a strong taste, each uniquely its own. Therefore, it is difficult to describe the taste of acai juice. All the more reason to give it a try!
Some acai juices you buy in your local market may already be mixed with other juices. It may be marketed as "acai juice" even if other juices are mixed in, so you will want to read the label before you buy in order to know if the juice is pure acai juice or a blend.
Acai puree on the other hand, is usually pure acai berry pureed for easier packaging and shipping. Of course, you should always check the label to be sure. Acai puree is more pulpy and therefore a thicker substance than acai juice. Some people simply do not like the consistency of acai puree and would rather use acai juices to make their healthy shakes and smoothies.
Both acai juices and acai purees contain the same nutritionally packed ingredients. Either will give you the benefits of the acai berries which continue to amaze the health industry. Which you choose is solely dependent on your own personal choice as you will not be better off with one or the other. Both the juices and the purees will give you a tremendous nutritional boost.