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Açaí • Cupuaçu • Yerba Maté
Rainforest Superfoods Glow in the Media Spotlight
"5 Things That You Never Heard of That Could
Change Your Life"
Andrew Zimmern as interviewed by Meredith Viera
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Watch the video on NBC |
| #3 |
Açaí BerriesThis one has 10 times the antioxidants that grapes have and twice of blueberries and pomegranates, which are famously the ones that everyone holds up as the Superfood when it comes to fruit. Loaded with vitamins, it increases circulation, and of course most importantly lowers inflammation so it is sort of like aspirin of the jungle." |
| #4 |
Yerba Maté"It aids in digestion and helps your skin . . . It has the fatigue fighting benefits of coffee, but it doesn’t stress your central nervous system and doesn't stress your muscles. So, you can drink it before your workout, you can mix it with different juices, and it doesn’t take away from healthful benefits of other foods the way coffee does and in some cases the way tea does." |
| #5 |
Cupuaçu"Now this is the one nobody really knows about that I think is going to take the country by storm over the next couple of years. Cupuaçu is known in the Amazon Rainforest as a ‘pharmacy in a fruit’. It is similar to the Cacao tree. It has the taste sort of like a cross between chocolate, passion fruit, and bananas . . . It is really a phenomenal food . . . Now this stuff, it destroys free radicals and is so high in antioxidants. This can literally help anything that ails you – from improving the texture of your skin to cleaning out your GI tract . . . This is the next great Superfood." |