Acai berry reviews are important animals. If you’re going to be taking any supplement which has an unknown (to you at least) effect, then you should really do some research before making a final decision. Unfortunately for us, finding reliable acai berry reviews is like finding the proverbial needle in the proverbial haystack. There are of course good, honest reviews to be found, but you will have to wade through a whole heap of dross before you find them.

What’s The Problem With Most Acai Berry Reviews?
The problem with most acai berry reviews is that they are written by the same people who want you to spend money on their product. Selling acai is very much a game played by Internet savvy marketers who know how to force a good word around. The key to finding reliable reviews is to 1) know where to look; and 2) know how to spot a faked review.

So Where Should I Look For Acai Berry Reviews?
Certainly you should avoid any of the product sites themselves, that much is obvious. Any site that compares and contrasts different versions of acai berry products would be a vastly better start. AcaiBerrySite.com is one such site: there is a level of honesty there – about the acai products available and about the industry as a whole – that seems unmatched across the web.

Another good place to look is in those rare places where the customers get to have their say. Customers have no affiliations to any particular acai products, and they have absolutely no reason to want to promote one over another. Again, I refer to the Acai Berry Site, and I direct you towards their active forums.

It’s Due Dilligence Time: Make Up Your Own Mind!
Acai berry reviews can help you decide which acai berry products to purchase, but if you are going to take advice from strangers on the Internet, then make sure it’s the best advice you can find. Use your common sense and you’ll do just fine. Acai berry is definitely worth a little bit of work.

Acai berries. Now there’s something that everyone knows about. Mostly everyone has either heard of acai being mentioned in the same breath as Superfood or Scam. Which is it really? Well it’s definitely a superfood, and in some limited cases it is also linked to a scam, too. I say ‘linked to a scam’, because I want to make it quite clear that the acai berry itself is not a scam, but the Free Trial Offers that offer customers cheap acai most definitely are. Read on and hopefully I can explain myself a little better.

Superfood?
Acai berries contain a lot of nutrients, amino acids, antioxidants and dietary goodness. One of the the reasons that it is so highly revered is that it contains much more bang per unit weight than any other known food. It helps in a wide variety of circumstances, too: from improved skin condition to reduction of cholesterol levels; from improved digestion to increased energy levels. It follows from this that even though adding acai products to your diet increases your calorie intake, the collateral benefits outweigh this small disadvantage enormously.

Superscam?
So if acai berries are so good, where does the ’scam’ part come in? Well, as I mentioned it’s not the berry itself that is responsible, rather it is those that sell it to the unaware consumers.

The most common scam that we hear of is the Acai Berry Free Trial Offer. This ‘free’ offer isn’t really free at all. The scam lures you in by offering a free trial in return for you paying the shipping charges, but to pay the shipping charges you’re going to have to hand over your credit card details. Once they’ve got these they just will Not. Let. Go.

There have been many horror stories of people having to cancel credit cards just to stop these scam companies from charging them. Is it legal? Probably not, but who knows. Is it avoidable? Definitely, just don’t go for any free trial offers!

This scam is, fortunately, starting to become so widely known that people are slowly beginning to avoid it. Unfortunately the scam becoming common knowledge has meant that all acai products, sellers and distributors are getting tarred with the same brush and all acai is associated with dubious selling practices.

Acai Berry Does Not Equal Scam

Acai berries and their associated products are not necessarily scams. That some people choose to use acai as a basis for their scamming ways cannot be helped, but it is unfortunate that they take the majority of legitimate acai sellers with them. Acai is a superfood with super potential; avoid the scams and you’ll get on just fine.

The acai berry diet is more than just a fad diet, it’s a way of life for some people; it can change your life permanently for the better. There’s little left to be said about the acai berry that hasn’t already been said, but in case you need a little refresher (or in case you have been living under a very dark rock for the past year or so), here is a brief rundown of the berry itself and of the diet that is so closely linked to it.

Why Is Acai Always Linked To Diets?
The phrase Acai berry diet can often cause confusion, and is certainly a little misleading. The phrase conjures up a mealtime regime where you sit down to eat an acai berry… clearly this isn’t intended to be the case! All acai berry diet means is that you start to introduce some acai berry into your diet on a regular basis. Sound easy? Yeah, it is.

The acai berry diet works because acai contains loads of antioxidants, nutrients, amino acids and fiber. Your body needs all of these in abundance, and the acai berry provides more per unit weight than any other food that we know. All this and it occurs completely naturally.

What The Acai Berry Diet Involves
The acai berry diet is quite simply the use of one or more acai berry products with a healthy, balanced intake of food. Exercise helps, too. It’s not a ‘diet’ as such, in fact if you’re eating healthily already then you would actually be adding food into your routine.

There are many good sound medical reasons why you should not undertake one of the many fad diets around. Fad diets are not healthy and although it could help you lose weight in the short term, the long term effects will not be as effective. A much better route is to make a change in your lifestyle. All acai berry does is to make this transition a much easier one to undertake.

Does that mean that it’s not a miracle food then?
Spot on! It’s not at all, and anyone that claims it is one is misguided (or, more likely, is trying to make you buy some of their products). Acai berry is just a fruit; it a wholly nutritious fruit with plenty of valuable nutrients and antioxidants, but it is a fruit nonetheless.

What’s the Oprah reference in the title?
Oprah gave the acai berry a decent helping hand by showing it on her prime time show. She had experts on the show testifying that the berry was the latest and greatest super food. Mass media is a very powerful thing, and soon sales of acai products soared. People heard that ‘Oprah said it would make them thin’, and much of the confusion over the power of acai berry was borne.

Since this initial introduction to the world, Oprah has started to sue the many acai sellers that used her apparent endorsement of the berry to peddle their wares. Was this a surprising outcome? Not at all.

Be sensible with your acai berry diet and in a few months you will start to notice the difference. In a year you will be a different person, and in two years you will have completely forgotten how you used to live the way you did.

Acai berry information is an essential commodity for anyone wanting to buy or use acai berry. Where to buy from? How much to take? How to take it? Should you wait a day between supplements? A week? Should you buy pills or juices or puree…? The list of queries is long. But where should you get this information from?

Acai berry information is pretty difficult to come by. Difficult, that is, if you’re looking for information that is accurate; there is more than enough rumor, hearsay and outright lies to go around! If you are looking for the real thing then there are a few sources you should head to. Read on.

There is Acai berry information galore at AcaiBerrySite.com. Not only does the site run through nutritional information, side effects, the benefits of acai and all that goodstuff, but the it also provides some startlingly honest facts on acai scams. The acai berry scam is becoming increasingly well known, but there is still a vast proportion of the population that does not heed warnings and insists on ordering free trials. Please, go to the Free Trial Offers at AcaiBerrySite.com before you consider doing this. As of the end of September there were literally hundreds of reports by acai customers that had been scammed on many different sites. The site is accredited by the BBB, and there are no registered complaints on file. There is piece of mind there, at least.

Acai berry information is usually biased. This is a natural by-product of the fact that the people who are writing the information are also the ones that intend to sell it to you. You can’t blame those people, but at the same time it’s difficult to trust the information that they provide. The best way to get a real opinion about acai berry is to ask people like you who use it every day. The public forums at AcaiBerrySite.com do just that.

Acai berry information from the people who use it, people that have no affiliation with any acai berry product or seller, are naturally going to be those whose opinion you can rely on most. These people have nothing to gain in spreading rumors and incorrect information.

Use your judgment when you see acai berry information on line. Does it look genuine or is it basically an advertisement for a particular product? Ask yourself these questions and use commonsense before you follow any advice you find.

Many people order acai on-line thinking that it is the cheap and inferior (albeit much more convenient) method by which to source acai products. Acai products in the stores, so their reasoning goes, is higher quality and, although it is more expensive, is better value for money. After all who would think for a minute that mega-stores like Whole Foods could provide inferior goods to their customers?

However, if you order acai from an on-line store, then you’ve got much more chance of getting a high quality product than if you had purchased from a local store, and that’s a fact. This article attempts to answer the obvious question of ‘why’ this is case. It will also put straight some of the misconceptions surrounding the ordering of acai on-line vs in a store.

When you order Acai on-line you will be more likely to receive a fresh product that has been processed a lot less than the store varieties. Acai degrades very quickly, an in fact far too quickly for it to be any good once it goes through the store’s lengthy delivery, storage and shelving processes. To get around this rapid degradation, stores use a drum drying method on the acai once it is harvested. Drum dried acai has a lot of the goodness burnt away, but it lasts longer because it is a completely dehydrated powder. Not only can this powder be used in acai supplements and pills, but if you add some water it becomes a kind of acai juice again; the juices you buy in Whole Foods and the like will all have come from this powdered start.

If you order acai and want quality, then on-line stores can do a better job. Because acai supplements and purees ordered on-line are basically sent from the harvesting site to your door, there is no long traveling or standing time. The worry about the product degrading by the time it gets to you is substantially less, and so different processes can be used to package the acai.

Better acai supplements and pills will contain freeze dried rather than drum dried powders. The freeze drying process is not as harsh on the acai as drum drying, and it retains the antioxidants and nutrients that are most likely the main reason for you buying the product for in the first place. This means that acai juices and purees can be made from pure crushed acai berries. Acai purees have a much thicker, stodgy, texture to them which makes the liquid almost chewy. When you first try acai puree you will see a huge different compared to juice, and if you are looking for a healthy diet supplement then there is no competition: puree wins hands-down every time.

The acai that you buy from a store is not bad, per se, it’s just that the quality is always going to be limited by factors outside the control of the store. If all you are seeking is a tasty and refreshing drink that tastes great, then acai from high street stores might be just fine. If you’re looking for something to help add essential nutrients into your diets, then order acai on-line. There are exceptions to this guidance, of course, and some on-line stores simply repackage the inferior product you find in the supermarkets. Choose correctly, though, and you will get more out of your purchase.

Acai berry fruit is harvested deep in the Brazilian rain forest, growing on the top of the lofty acai palm in bunches of between 500 and 900 fruits. The berry itself very similar in appearance to a grape, but contains a large seed that makes up a proportion of the middle of the fruit. The locals eat a lot of acai (in fact it makes up 42% of their food intake, according to reports); combine this local reliance on the berry with the fact that the worldwide demand for acai is soaring, and you’ve suddenly got a very valuable crop growing right in the Amazon Basin.

The acai berry fruit sits at the top of its acai palm in very much the same way as it sits on top of the metaphorical tree of health foods and supplements. The feature of acai on prime time shows like Oprah have pushed the berry to the very forefront of the minds of millions of viewers. Oprah has since claimed that she didn’t endorse the product in the way that many acai sellers have claimed she did, but the damage – or the massive help, depending on which way you look at it – has already been done.

Acai berry fruit has benefited from people other than Oprah Winfrey, of course, and it would be unfair to rest all of the credit for the berry’s ascension with her. In fact that would take away some of the credit that the berry itself so richly deserves. Acai is an excellent supplement, full of nutrition, antioxidants, amino acids and other goodness, so most of the work in marketing such a product is done already. The berry sells itself.

Acai berry fruit may sell itself, but it is its appearance on Oprah et al that lent it much needed credibility. Without this apparent endorsement the so-called Acai Berry Free Trial Scam would not have got as far as it has. Quickly put, this scam works by asking people for their credit card details for a ‘free trial’. The free trial quickly changes into a full-blown monthly subscription which is either very difficult or impossible to cancel. Read the small print, folks! People are so eager to rush out and buy the acai berry that commonsense is lost somewhat, and many thousands of people have been stung with charges they could not afford.

This scam – along with some choice lawsuits and some rather unfortunate marketing decisions by a small minority of acai sellers – has turned the wheel on acai. It is now becoming seen as something of a sham, with people doubting all the claims they have heard, and disregarding acai products across the board.

When you assess the facts, though, this wholly negative attitude towards the innocent acai berry fruit is unfair and unwarranted. Acai is still the wonderful nutritionally rich fruit it was before some people took advantage; it still gets more antioxidants into your system than any other fruit, and it is still a great addition to your diet. Sure, it’s not the miracle cure or the panacea that it is claimed to be, but it is still well worth a place in your kitchen.

Acai berry gets a lot of attention. Why is this? The cynical readers will say it is due to some impressive marketing push effected by the acai bigwigs from their privileged position at the top of their ivory towers… others will (perhaps grudgingly) admit that there must be something behind all this fuss. As the saying goes: there isn’t any smoke without a fire.

Acai berry is like nothing else we have seen on the health food and supplement market; the benefits of adding the berry to a balanced diet are so many and so wide ranging that it is sometimes difficult to believe that one little fruit can do so much. And in fact this is where people start to get more than a little skeptical, especially when these benefits are being thrust down their throats by pushy sales tactics.

So here’s the thing: acai berry is pushed pretty hard by those who would sell it to you. In that respect it is absolutely no different to any other product that has been for sale; if you’re not pushing the plus points of your wares then you’re not going to be a very successful salesperson. Shoving the 15 different things that Acai is reportedly good for down the throats of potential customers, though, just sends them into a disbelieving mood. It starts to sound too good to be true.

Here’s another thing: acai berry isn’t a miracle worker. It cannot make you lose 30 pounds in 2 weeks. The only way to do that is to chop off a limb. People read the fantastical claims touted by the acai berry “hard sellers” and they take them to heart: even if it’s pretty obvious that the effects are not going to come in a few days, and even if it is clearly implied that you need to stop eating so much pie all day… people don’t see it that way. Naturally acai gets the blame, and the complainers move off to look for some other miracle cure to their problems.

To sum up: acai berry is a great product that helps the body in oh so many different ways. Unfortunately some of the hard sell that goes on misleads people into thinking that it’s something it isn’t. Be realistic in your expectations and use acai as the aid to a healthier lifestyle that it promises to be. Follow these simple guidelines and your friendship with acai will be a long and lasting one!

The best acai juice is the one which fits your needs; not the needs of the people trying to sell it to you. Are you looking for something that’s going to taste nice for the kids? Or are you looking for a full-bodied acai puree picked days ago from the palm on which the seeds were growing?

The best acai juice for those wanting a tasty beverage is basically the supermarket brands. These are easy to get hold of and some really do taste great. Unfortunately they are little more than reconstituted fruit juice – indeed most of them contain more fruit juice than acai juice, so you’re paying a premium for very little acai at all – and they are unlikely to do you much good from a health standpoint.

The best acai juice for anyone wanting to get the full benefits of acai into their diet is undoubtedly the acai purees that you will only see sold on the web. Why are they only sold here? Because the high street stores can’t get this puree – and this is as natural an acai product as you are going to get – to your house quick enough. All that sitting around on supermarket shelves quickly takes its toll on the delicate acai berry, and it degrades sufficiently to make the product nasty and worthless. Buying on line means the product can be shipped to you almost directly from the place of harvest. How’s that for ultimate convenience?

The best acai juice from the health standpoint is that which has retained most – or all – of the goodness of the original acai berry. You are buying the berry because of the nutrients in it, after all, and it simply does not make sense to then take those nutrients out of the product just because you can’t look after it properly. Again, this is what a large chain of stores is likely to do with all of their acai products, and this is why the best bet is to find a supplier online. Best of luck for whichever route you decide on!