Nutritionally Dense Berries

From Ancient Cultures: Nutritionally-Dense Exotic Berries

How marvelous that some of the most nutritionally dense foods are being "discovered" in remote corners of the world. They're right there for the picking. Hopefully their growing popularity will provide benefits for both first world consuming countries and second and third world producing countries.

From the Himalayas: Goji Berries

In his book, Goji The Himalayan Health Secret, author, Dr. Earl Mindell, says "many of the world's longest living people consume regular daily helpings of a tiny red fruit that just happens to be the world's most powerful anti-aging food: the Goji Berry.

Earl Mindell, R.Ph., M.H., Ph.D., is generally recognized as the world's leading nutritional authority.

He is the bestselling author of over 50 books, including the New Vitamin Bible and the New Herb Bible.

The first written record of the health benefits of goji berries dates back to 800 A.D. It is the story of a well - surrounded by goji vines. People who drank the enriched water flavored by fallen goji berries aged more slowly than those who didn't. They retained all their teeth and full heads of dark hair into their 80's.

From the Amazon: Açaí Berries

Açaí (pronounced "ah-sigh-ee") is an all-natural energy fruit from Amazon cabbage palm berries.

The berries are wild harvested in the rain forests of Brazil. Açaí fruit have a rich berry flavor with just a hint of chocolate.

They contain twice the antioxidants of blueberries, as well as Omega 6 and 9 essential fatty acids, amino acids, and trace minerals such as calcium and iron. Some of the antioxidants in açaí berries are anthocyanins - the same as are found in red wine. However açaí berries contain ten to thirty times the volume of anthocyanins as red wine!

Anti-aging skin guru, Dr. Nicholas Perricone, highly recommends açaí products to his patients.

Dr. Perricone is the author of best-selling books, The Wrinkle Cure, The Perricone Promise and The Perricone Prescription, among many others.

Read more about Açaí.

This article is for informational purposes only. It does not purport to offer medical advice.