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You may have heard of the acai berry — if you haven’t then you must have been living under a rock — and have heard all about how good it is for us. Some people just accept that a certain food is good for us if we are told that is the case by a book or even the TV. Others — hopefully the people reading this — want to find out why a particular food is good, what benefits it provides, and whether we should start to introduce the food into our family’s diet.

The acai berry is good for a number of reasons, but mainly because of the massive amounts of antioxidants and anthocyanins that the berry contains. Other good sources of these essential nutrients include red grapes and, as a comparison, the acai berry contains as much as 10 times the amount of antioxidants and 30 times the anthocyanins. Impressive already! Antioxidants and anthocyanins are essential for our bodies to function, but may actually fight diseases such as cancer and diabetes, as well as combating bacterial infections.

Also in the acai berry are an abundance of healthy mono unsaturated fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols which all help your digestion and improve the effectiveness with which red blood cells can carry oxygen to the rest of the body.