The Amazon Acai Fruit Story

For centuries, the Amazon rain forest has been believed to have a plethora of medicines within plants and herbs that could cure most ailments known today.

Recently, this legend has become factual. Buried deep within the Amazon rain forest lies a berry that has been an Amazonian treasure for hundreds of years. The Acai fruit provides an answer to the myths of old.

The Acai fruit is actually pronounced Ah-sigh-ee and has been cultivated by the local people of the Brazilian rain forest for hundreds of years. It has proven to be a cure for everything from the common mumps to diabetes. New discoveries even have shown evidence that this tiny berry is properties to curing cancer.

The story of the discovery of the acai fruit is an amazing one indeed–There was a tribe that had been blessed for centuries but now faced the threat of famine. The situation was so dire that the leader of the tribe, a proud man by the name of Itaki, made a law that all children were to be sacrificed.

Unbeknown at the time to Itaki, declaration would even infiltrate his own family. He discovered that his own daughter, Laca, was about to give birth, so she to would have to sacrifice her firstborn child.

The starvation and thirst caused the tribal leaders daughter to imagine that she saw her child outside. with haste, she ran out side toward a palm tree that she imagined her child to be at

The next morning, the tribe descended to this palm tree and discovered the dead body of the tribal chiefs daughter. As they looked up at the palm tree, they noticed clumps of blue berries, which later became known as acai berries.

This single berry not only saved the tribe from hunger, but was instrumental in this tribe’s economic growth. The people of Belem — the state in Brazil where the Acai fruit is harvested — are said to be the descendants of this same tribe.

This fruit has proven to be a god send to the people as this tiny city still survives off of the mighty acai fruit of Brazil