MonaVie Featured on Mr. Food
PR Urgent - Sep 29, 2008
Mr. Food, a syndicated daily television news segment, ran a 90-second feature on the açai berry, calling it an “in” ingredient with an exotic flavor from …

New Studies Discuss the Effects of Key Ingredient in MonaVie Active
Business Wire (press release), CA - Sep 30, 2008
The two studies are important for the science behind MonaVie because they illustrate aspects of biological actions for both the acai berry and the whole …

Something new on the top shelf: Acai
Chicago Daily Herald, IL - Sep 30, 2008
Veev, supposedly made from the purple berry of the acai palm tree, has the clean mouthfeel of vodka, the slight citrus tang of fine tequila and a …

MonaVie names Devin D. Thorpe Chief Financial Officer
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 8 hours ago
2008-10-01 20:55:11 - MonaVie, maker of the premier blend of the Brazilian acai berry, announces today the appointment of Devin D. Thorpe as Chief Financial …

MonaVie juice and nutrition
KPNX-12, AZ - Oct 1, 2008
Some of those drinks include exotic ingredients like the acai berry which comes from the Amazon region of Brazil. One of the popular drinks, called MonaVie, …

Food and Drink in Brazil - The Land of Plenty
Gringoes.com, Brazil - Oct 3, 2008
Açai is a berry found in the Amazon and northern parts of Brazil. It is often enjoyed as a snack or a power booster for bodybuilders and athletes. …

Acai has gone from staple of the Amazon to global wonder-berry
Los Angeles Times, CA - Sep 21, 2008
The cargo is acai (pronounced ah-sigh-EE), the unassuming fruit of a jungle palm that has gone from Amazonian staple to global wonder-berry: a much-hyped …

MonaVie Names Devin D. Thorpe Chief Financial Officer
MarketWatch - Sep 22, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Sep 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MonaVie ( www.monavie.com), maker of the premier blend of the Brazilian acai berry, announces today the …

Chilly treats heat up in Provo
BYU Newsnet, UT - Sep 22, 2008
Opened July 24, Spoon Me offers three flavors: Natural, Green Tea and Acai. The Green Tea flavor is caffeine free, and Spoon Me is the only store in the …

Bud pulls a 180 with Blue Acai Energy
Examiner.com - Sep 23, 2008
This drink is filled with Acai (pronounced Ah-sigh-ee) berry juice, a small, dark, purple fruit from the palmberry tree. It usually grows in the wild …

Purple Beverage Signs Distribution Agreement With Eureka For Mixed …
RTT News, NY - Sep 24, 2008
Purple that was introduced in late 2007 is a unique and tasty blend of seven of the world’s most powerful antioxidant-rich fruits, including the exotic açai …

Navitas Naturals Announces Three New Organic Superfood Powders
NPIcenter (press release), Canada - Sep 24, 2008
Ani’s recipe for Acai Ketchup is presented below, and the three powders are also ideal recipe ingredients for drinks, yogurt and cereals, or can be baked …

The Drink: Sauza Mango Tequila
Globe and Mail, Canada - Sep 24, 2008
Sauza has launched Mango-flavoured tequila and Acai flavoured tequilas in Canada. But can the spicy beverage stand up to the proliferation likes of Mike’s …

Berries in the Spa
SkinInc.com, IL - Sep 25, 2008
The goji and açai berry have been two of the more popular berries included in supplements and skin-related products during the past few years, …

Flash freezing is fast becoming the most popular way to preserve food. When it comes to making sure your food stays fresh for long stretches, there are not too many options. It’s a well-known fact, however, that by freezing food, you can make sure that it stays fresher, for longer. Specifically, flash freezing isn’t just making food cold. It isn’t the same as putting fruit in a freezer for a later date. Flash freezing is a much more involved process that preserves the cellular/molecular structure of the açai berry. Flash freezing is especially important when dealing with all-important açai berries, which feature a high-octane combination of antioxidants.

Flash freezing simply involves taking all the heat out of something as quickly as possible. Flash freezing removes heat so quickly that it prevents the natural breakdown of foods. This is especially important when working with delicate foods, as those ice crystals are essential in protecting the food for the long haul. Açai is one of those foods that absolutely must be preserved through flash freezing. You can’t just hope to stick the food in the freezer and expect it to be flash frozen, though. You have to make sure that you use the right items to assist in removing the heat as quickly as humanly possible.

Why is it important to remove the heat quickly through flash freezing?

People have long been looking for a better way to freeze açai berries because of the fact that açai is such a powerful healing item. It has almost ten times as many antioxidants as other fruits, and because of that, it can do big things in healing all sorts of different ailments. For instance, antioxidants are important in stopping cancer and in helping heart issues. That, more than anything else, is why people insist on flash freezing açai berries. Flash freezing obviously is not the only way to preserve food, though it is the best way. More so than any other form of food preservation, flash freezing is the most effective way to preserve ALL that the açai berry offers.

The problem with lots of forms of food preservation is that they do not preserve all the good antioxidants in food. For instance, dehydrating food does not preserve the helpful phytochemicals and flavenoids. Heat drying will almost certainly kill these things, and in the end, that will leave you with a food that is all but useless.

Mona Vie contracts with those who harvest the açai berry to preserve the fruit as soon as it is picked. The flash freeze powder is then shipped to the United States and blended with 18 other fruits to provide the freshest, most nutrient-rich juice possible.

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Should kids pop statins?

Doctors prescribe the drug, statin, to young children (as early as 8 years old) if they have a history of heart disease in their family. Statin lowers the LDLs (bad) cholesterol.

Many pediatricians are questioning the use of prescriptions in children and are now promoting healthier lifestyles and diets. One of the primary changes is the addition of antioxidants into their diets. The açai berry is one of the highest antioxidant sources. Coffee is another high antioxidant source. While a contributor to this article suggests adding coffee to the childrens’ diet, we would hesitate. Why add the caffeine? The açai berry provides the added nutritional value to children’s diets without complicating their health with other addictive substances. (Health & Medicine section of the Houston Chronicle)

A Penn State student blogs about Açai

On her journeys through the Amazon jungle, a Penn State student blogs about her meals which include the açai berry.

A new water beverage hits the market with an açai flavor

There is no question, not only is the açai berry good for you, it is great tasting! A new water "Skinny Water" hits the market this week and includes an açai flavor.

Yogurt Goes Brazilian!

The açai berry is now an ingredient in a frozen yogurt shop in Utah.

Liquid Supplements are now the future!

No longer do you need to take 10 pills a day to get your supplements, you can drink them down in as little as 4 ounces! This article, which includes a funny anecdote of a woman chugging straight from her MonaVie bottle. She soon realized, her neighbors were watching

What does Beer and Açai have in common? The Anheuser-Bush label.

Recognizing the benefits of açai, Anheuser-Bush has unveiled a new bottled water product that includes the "Age Defying Açai."

• Antioxidants
• Fatty Acids (Omega 3, 6 & 9)
• Vitamins and Minerals
• Dietary Fiber
• Phytonutrients
• Amino Acids
• Complex Carbohydrates
• Trace Minerals

MonaVie capitalizes on the potency of the fruit by using the highly-concentrated freeze-dried Açai powder.