Brazil has declared açai a national fruit to shield the popular Amazon berry from so-called "biopiracy", the use of a country ...

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns grow about foreign companies staking claims to the Amazon's ...

FILE PHOTO: Baskets of acai berries are seen on a truck, to be taken to a market where they will be sold to the food processing industry and to the growing export market, in Abaetetuba, near the mouth ...

Clean Juice, a national juice bar franchise known for its fresh, high-quality ingredients and focus on overall health and wellness, is offering free Berry Acai Bowls at all participating locations ...

Acai berries are known for their striking deep purple hue. Their mild, not-sweet-at-all taste make them the perfect base for smoothie bowls topped with oats, coconut shavings, and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve heard of açai bowls before, and have probably even seen the ingredient featured in smoothies and the like...but what is ...

Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about biopiracy — the commercial exploitation of native species and traditional ...

In the tiny community of Ilha da Jussara, at the northern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, growing acai berries—a superfood known for its nutritional benefits—is a major source of income. Production has ...

The first time I ever tried acai (pronounced: ah-sah-yee) in 1997, the fruit was served to me as a thick drink by an Ipixuna Indian woman, when I was living on the Amazon River for a month. Acai, ...

It seems so long ago that I first tasted acai—a rich, purple palm fruit in the Amazon. I was living with Ipixuna indians on the Amazon river in Brazil, and some of the women in the family I was ...

At first, I was a major açai bowl skeptic. Quite simply, I didn't get the hype. What could be so great about a smoothie you eat from a bowl? But that's the thing: this seemingly minor change-up is ...

Scientists found that a commercially available acai berry product can lengthen the lives of fruit flies, when the flies' lives are made short through additional oxidative stress. Under certain ...