Maegan - 25 July 2010 01:50 PM

White people will buy anything.

I think it’s more like White Men Can’t Jump.

I guess this whole weight loss scam would be giving acai berries and goji berries a bad name. I’m sure like any edible fruit they would have a place in a healthy diet.

The bakery where I sometimes work started selling some iced fruit drinks a while ago.  One of the flavours of the fruit pur

Accipiter - 25 July 2010 11:34 PM

The bakery where I sometimes work started selling some iced fruit drinks a while ago.  One of the flavours of the fruit pur

Peter - 25 July 2010 11:41 PM

Did too many people find the taste of acai too hideous? I should seek acai out and actually try it for myself to see what it tastes like. I just don’t want to pay too high a price for one of these juices simply because it’s being marketed as a weight loss thang.

Actually, it didn’t seem to influence the flavour at all.  I think that the blueberry drowned it out.  And I’m not aware of anybody trying the blueberry and acai mix for the acai itself, either. . .most of them just ignored the acai part of it, or just wondered “What’s acai?”.

Save your money, Peter.  It’s not worth it.

6 or so months ago I was at the store and thirsty (without coffee) so I bought a bottle of acai/pomenganite/?raspberry? juice out of one of the coolers on the end of the checkout line.  It was hideous.  Tasted like rancid scope.   The flavor was sour/bitter/juniperberry-ish.  (Kind of like some of those “energy” drinks out there.  I don’t understand the appeal of those things either. After all, one could get more ‘pickup’ from an espresso or bottle of Mt Dew.  Those at least taste good!)

I think somebody somewhere discovered that if it tasted horrible, people would believe it must have some medicinal property or something.

I have purchased a acai berry based drink and it was great… It was like a red wine without the alcohol content.

A glass a day was all that was needed and after a short period of time I had a lot more energy and felt a lot better in myself.

The only draw back was the cost of each bottle. If it wasn’t so expensive I would still be drinking it now.

Someone previously mentioned autism (as a joke?) I personally know a couple with a autistic son and that acai drink I mentioned helped him heaps, it calmed him down, he slept better etc and he was only given about a cap fill a day.

I believe in that particular acai berry drink but have never had anything else.

Thank you for your valuable input… and yet you have a weightloss URL in your profile settings. Yeah, thank you so much..

Aww, Robin, you don’t think ol’ Ben there is pulling our leg, do you?

I found some juice at my local grocery store and tried it.  Oh man, it was terrible.  I agree with daveprime that it tasted rancid.  Also, after I drank it, I had an allergic reaction.  I broke out in hives. :( It freaked me out because I’ve never had an allergic reaction to food before.  Guess I’m allergic to the acai berry.

They’re a major food crop down in parts of Central and South America (about equal to wheat or corn in North America), but I don’t recall ever having just plain acai berries.  They were always mixed in with something else and cooked up.

Peter - 25 July 2010 10:34 AM

Has anybody on the MOH forums actually tried drinking Acai Berry juice? I keep wondering what it actually tastes like.

As for weight loss I dare say I get more benefit from eating un-toasted muesli in low fat milk for breakfast.

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