What's In Your Expensive Acai Bowl? Superfood Or Sugary Junk Food?
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Acai berries are widely touted as a superfood rich in antioxidants. Claims about its health benefits: weight loss, lower cholesterol level, better skin and prevention of heart diseases. Are these facts or pure marketing hype?
We get experts to tell you the truth.
0:00 Is acai a miracle fruit?
0:24 Acai fruit facts
0:54 Why are acai bowls so sweet?
1:14 How to tell the difference between sweetened and unsweetened acai pulp
1:50 How much sugar is there in acai sorbet and ice cream?
2:14 How to get healthier acai bowls?
2:58 Why are acai berries so expensive?
3:04 How are acai berries processed?
4:00 How did acai become a health craze?
4:27 Health benefits of acai
4:39 What are antioxidants? Do we need them?
5:38 Beware! Not all acai products are actually made of acai
6:33 These other fruits are also rich in antioxidants
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Hats off to Ms Jacqueline for being so upfront
Yaaa, shes very pragmatic, i like that!
we stan a honest business owner
Near heard of this fruit. I will check it out.
In today social media, it might be better off being truthful, as over promoting might serve no extra hype if not having to deal with more unwanted attention.
Honesty and Truth lives on her
Ms Jacqueline must be commended, she's an honest business person. I would still have my açai bowl every now and then. I enjoy it.
She's good, doesn't treat the viewers and customers as fools.
As a brazilian I can say that açai has made its way within Brazil in the past 10 to 15 years. Nowadays it is spread all over the country. And I think the popularity here is the same as bubble tea in Asia. Before açaí, ice cream shops were very popular. But nowadays most of them have changed to only sell all types of açaí bowls you can imagine. The most common places are really cheap and offer the sweetened one. Other fancier places offer 100% organic açai.
Uhm maybe in some parts of Brazil, I'm from Rio and although açai is not native to here it's definitely been popular for much longer than 15 years. Maybe because there are a lot of people that moved here from the northeast. It is very dessert like most often than not but there are some more traditional açai shops with unsweetened açai and tapioca balls as the only topping.
@@phosphenevision não era muito popular em muitos lugares, pelo menos no sul não era.
No sudeste costuma-se consumir muito mais o açaí de jussara do que do açaizeiro. O jussara é nativo da mata atlantica, sendo nativo do Rio sim.
@@phosphenevision it’s been around Rio since the 1980s
I always thought of acai bowls as just a thicker form of smoothie with toppings.
The closest thing that I consume to Acai is Asahi beer
As a brazilian I normally see people eating açai as a treat, like a desert, not as breakfast or anything like it.
Sopa du macaco kkkkkkk
As a Brazilian from Belém, in the Amazon forest, I can tell you that my breakfast is fresh açaí. It’s not so common, but there are people like me. Some people have it as their lunch (with fish, jerked beef, shrimp etc) or like a desert(with sugar).
@@egessinger Yeah, but that's fresh açaí, right? Not the frozen kind filled with sugar, guaraná and I don't even know what else. I live in Porto Alegre (in the south) and here açaí tastes really sweet and people normally eat it with fruit, condensed milk and/or leite ninho. that's desert for me hehehe
ps: tão bizarro falar com alguém do Brasil em inglês kkkkk
@@pswinck Exactly. But I what I see when I go to others places in Brazil is açaí ice cream and not açaí (even if frozen, because the industry adds other things, sometimes even avocado, so those who don't know the fruit don't notice the difference).
Falando em inglês pros gringos entenderem.😅
Mas eu sempre digo que tomar sorvete de morango não é consumir morango, mas eu entendo que é mais fácil resumir a o sorvete a açaí, já que fora da região amazônica esse é o único jeito de consumi-lo.
A gente aqui se incomoda porque se alguém convidar um gaúcho pra comer churrasco e oferecer um hambúrguer a la USA na brasa, no mínimo há uma decepção. Aqui é o mesmo com o açaí. A galera tem um treco! Eu tomo de boa quando saio de Belém.
Desculpa a resposta longa.
Um abraço.
@@egessinger Bah, eu nunca tinha visto dessa forma, aqui a gente come sorvete de açaí, não o açaí de verdade. Claro que aqui é sobremesa. Seria que nem eu dizer que já comi a fruta guaraná porque já tomei Antártica. Certamente não é a mesma coisa.
i really respect her honesty.
As a Brazilian, I can say we consume açaí as a treat, just like having ice cream on a hot day. However, I prefer açaí over ice cream cause it has a very distinct taste and it mixes well with different toppings. Of course you can find healthier versions around here, but it's not the rule.
Sopa du macaco kkkkkkk
oh wow here i am eating it as my breakfast with 3 tablespoons of hemp seeds and oats to fill me up
Best food to eat are always local regional and seasonally grown. This trend of marketing exotic foods as healthy for all helps companies not people who eat it.
I love Jacqueline. She's funny and straight forward.
I would get the unsweetened acai pulp if possible. But those at shops usually use the sweetened one and quite exp, I just treat it more like dessert. So just get the packets unsweetened ones and add your own fruits to blend if you want healthier options
An honest boss is the kind of boss I want to work for.
The fact that shes honest i like it
The customer who complained about the acai not having a taste can go and have ice cream, or even yoghurt. Leave our acai alone without sugar!
açai in brazil is more like a treat than what it´s sold outside of our country. they use sugar syrup, some like adding bunch of topics like condensed milk, nuts, paçoca, chocolate, banana etc.... it can be a healthy treat if u do it urself or ask at the lunch bar to not add any syrup and just mix it with banana
It's illegal to use the term "superfood" in Canada.
Supahfood is ok?
Antioxidant are also found in red wine lol .
A Great bust !
The super food smoothie are smothered in sugar & the toppings are often sweet too
I’m from Belém, in the Amazon fosrest, and I’m blessed because I can have fresh açaí every day.
I never believed its still full of antioxidant because real antioxidant are very fragile. Light, air or heat can degrade it.
I eat it for taste and I love the color. In fact I view it as unhealthy food cos of the sugar. Sadly I haven't have access to unsweeten version before. I only ate 5 times my whole life and its all at restaurants.
Consuming sugar in low or moderate amounts won't kill you. A little sugar won't harm. However, excessive amounts of sugar consumption can do a lot of damage if unmitigated. It all goes down to balancing how much you eat, as well as paying attention to the quality of what you eat.
@@henryford2950 I agree with you. 👍
Not all sugars are made equal. The 11g of sugar in sweetened acai is refined and an absolute shitshow for your health. It is not the same a ls fructose and sucrose contained within high-fiber whole fruits. Refined sugar does and will harm you
Very informative yet short video! Love it!
me working at an acai shop watching this 👁👄👁
Sameee lol
Never had this before but found the video in my recommendations and it seemed interesting.
I love how real Ms. Jacqueline was !!!! Her sales will go thru the roof due to her honesty. As a consumer I want to be able to trust the company I’m purchasing from.
I'm from Rio and the Açaí here is very different from the original one tho. In the cities at the Amazon they have açaí with fish manioc powder.
In Rio we are used to the suggary one but the fruit itself it's very healthy to, it's a powerfull source in of energy and can help growing muscles.
I am Brazilian and I was born in Cerrado area, where there is not açaí palms. I've learned to eat açaí with a roommate that came to Brasilia to have a masters degree, she is from Pará, one of the states in Amazon area. I learned with her to eat açaí with tapioca, as dinner. It was pure açaí with tapioca flakes. I eat like this since, and love it, but I don't eat every day. In some very hot days I eat frozen açaí with bananas, as an iced treat. There are many ways to eat açaí, and this way as a sweet bowl started in Bahia, a northwest state in Brazil, where the açaí pulp was taken frozen and blended whith guaraná syrup. It was a treat to releave the heat and to gain energy to workout. After this the açaí bowl was everywhere in Brazil like a summer sweet treat and a pre workout meal and started to gain aditons like Granola and condensed milk.
This is similar on how Kelog market cereal as a healthy breakfast. As trend pick up most people consume cereal for their breakfast Eventhough Kelog lie almost everything about their cereal. Salute Ms. Jaculine
Yea, & how they market baby formulas & rusks as "healthy" alternatives
@@jedrashidul6952 Not baby formulas, but the mushy baby food. My mom never trusted those no matter what the label says, she blended up fruits and vegetables to make her own baby food. Cause the number one question is how much is the actual product, and how much is filler ingredients. 🤣
From what I’ve experienced in Brazil we use guaraná syrup to sweeten it still keeping it healthy and tastes delicious but that doesn’t mean that the syrup is healthy it’s a not so bad version of sugar
Antioxidants are not new. Decades ago related supplements already exist.
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lol every food with nutrient is super food
Perfect explanation
Loved the ending lmao
merci
Wow, what a cool business women! when do you ever see true honesty from someone selling that same product.
I’ve been eating açai bowls twice a week as my main course for dinner and have been losing weight. Thus far, I’ve shed 4kg.. after hearing this, I’m a little shaken haha.. it makes me question whether I’ve been doing the right thing?!
It’s just me loving açai hence treating it as my main meal!!
there can be (and probably have been) other variables that helped in your weight loss. one that I can think of is the difference in caloric intake between consuming your former main courses and your current açai shift. but be wary of what goes inside the bowls themselves though: some might not be so good for you (e.g., sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup).
juice it up and jamba juice two of the biggest juice related food companies in the world have açaí bowls are filled with sugar. they are not healthy. unless you’re making your own açaí bowls without added/processed sugars you’re most likely not being healthy.
If you replace a usual full meal to acai bowls, you most definitely consume less calories...
Yeah probably just less calories overall. Not the best meal in terms of macronutrients though especially protein.
Your previous meals probably were more dense in calories than the Açaí bowls, but that doesn't mean that's it's healthier
Acai bowl is just smoothie bowls.. can make them easily at home.. but people are getting lazier
Is Acai Powder a more concentrated and affordable way to buy it.
I like the unsweetened acai . I add protein to it like nuts and fruit as well. So yummy
Acia is very good for you,best to eat as a berry dried from health shops,dont mix it,people do everything to a health food to increase markets but really this is bad for you,keep it on it's own if you eat it like me.
I work for a company that makes sambazon açai pouches, sorbet bites, and those 3 gallon pails.
Açai bowl is a brazilian treasure just like yerba mate:
The state of Pará is the largest producer of the fruit, responsible for more than 90% of the world's production.
Bowl of sugar
Where to look and buy UNSWEETENED acai bowl?
As a Brazilian I am also saying "as a brazilian" because apparently brazilians like to let everyone on the internet knows they are Brazilians without anyone questioning it. Just like vegans 🤭
Your comment made me laugh
Lol
Porcelain cafe acai bowl legit the best!!!
Wow the frozen packs I use have 11g of sugar!
i want to see the plastic container video too!
Me and fried have realized that after eating acai bowl unsweetened ( from trader joe ) our BP goes down and it make us feel so calm , it is a superfood
I eat them as a breakfast with a protein drink
Basically a sugar bowl.
I only have this fruit when sick
No mention of caffeine being added?
It's better to eat it than not eat it. Balanced diet is what you need. One that suits your body. One that you enjoy. If I crave something I eat it. Just watch your portion's and keep it balanced. If you can fast one day a week even better. Plenty of fluid on that day.
I’ve heard of açai for as long as I’ve heard about Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Here in Brazil it's cheap, buying 1 liter of the best quality açaí for just 41 reais (8 dollars)
No wonder my stomach is still hurting two days later after my store bought açaí bowl 😩😩
Huh? Those palm trees and its fruits look very familiar... lol
Should avoid eating ice cream for the rest of your life, if you are health-conscious, they dump sugar in during making like no-one’s business
all fruit bowls are BOMB not just acai.
Absolutely sweet junk food. Probably healthier than cake but that's not good though. I used to have a job where I made them. There's so much sugar added in syrup form.
The dried fruit we used at our store was so expensive and it just taste like sugary something. People loved them though but we were just paying for the hype.
Sugaryyy
Wild Berries
I never had those "Açaí" bowls cuz once I tried the real deal that ish is nasty.
What about fructose and carbs. These things are sugar… natural sugars.
When it is processed, most of the fiber is gone, gone, gone.
As an Indonesian i'm confused what the deck acai is? Never heard of it.
I’ll answer in Indonesian since I happen to speak the language as well.
Jd itu semacam buah kyk beri gtu sih, dlu gue pertama nyobain pas tahun 2010 di Amerika, tp itu pun kyknya jg banyakan gulanya soalnya ada rasa manis walaupun rasa asamnya masih mendominasi.
Klo mau coba sendiri aja, cukup enak kok. Tp makanan begini emg ga bisa dianggap sbg superfood.
Funny you should say that. The one and only time I had an acai bowl was in Bali!
so when will a celebrity doctor claim that Borneo bananas are the next superfood? the kind we use in pisang goreng for example.
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What language youre speaking of?
@@harukrentz435 looks like Hmong
I had no clue what the hell Acai bowls were cuz I've never seen them in my life, but now I HATE THEM!!! SCREW ACAI BOWLS!!! ASDKFHASDFHAWEUFHASDUFHASDFKJASDHFASKJDLFH I AM SO MAD
Fasting gives more benefits than eating Acai berries lol, save your money folks, intermittent fast and when you do eat, you can eat healthy foods that contain all the nutrients that acai berries have without eating acai berries, also it limits the kids they use to farm for the berry, climbing tall palm tree's at young as 5 year olds are put to work to get it. Unbelievable what corporate companies would do for money. When I found this all out, I stopped buying acai berry and saved so much money in the process. People and kids have died trying to harvest these berries.
I gulp a protein acai smoothie everyday….with apple juice and banana …mega sugar….but God’s sugar…
til how to pronounce acai
just expensive n insta post-able food for insta babes who want to show they're upper class and eating 'healthy' food
Jacqueline looks like chungha 👀
It‘s the same as with anything else you just buy somewhere: it‘s high in calories and sugars. Wow, shocking … not. Make it at home, you can control what you put inside. Buy it and you have no control at all. The food industry will put anything inside, so it tastes as sweet as possible. Same goes for salads (loaded with greasy and sugary dressings) and poké bowls (again, high calorie sauce and toppings). I don’t know how people still live under such a big rock to not be aware of that.
Plus: It‘s unnecessary expensive. Mother Nature actually has a very intelligent system of what grows where and provides you all the nutritions you need by eating products from your region or country. Don’t know why people always want to change that …
Jacqueline is a baddie
Sugar is our number one health killer? Nah that goes to saturated/trans fats, sugar is second.
High in antioxidants DOES mean it will help you prevent and fight cancer....it will help you lose weight if you eat things like that instead pf ice cream etc!!!
Now compare acai to maqui.
Pure advertisement
Don’t need all these fancy food. Only gullible people will buy into this.
Junk sugar
Senior Japanese don't eat these fancy food, they're healthy. Our bodies can produce antioxidant. Watch BBC documentary instead.
Why WHO allows men eats more sugar than women? That's very misogynist
Men are generally bigger than women. It's not mysogenist at all, it's science. Men have a larger recommended calorie allowance etc. They have a bigger stature in general than women.
Wtf
Are you joking 💀
Junk food
OMG, at least get the pictures RIGHT. Most of the bowls you show are of PITAYA smoothies
The acai bowls aren't the problem in your diet 😂😂😂😂u probably eat things that are a lot worse