Written by NFPT Staff Writer
From Central and South America, the home of exotic animals, music, and medicinal foodstuffs, comes yet another product to add to the “must try” list for anyone interested in nutrition: the acai berry (it even rhymes with “must try” – a bit) is actually the fruit of new world species of palm tree. Grown also to produce hearts of palm, it’s the fruit of the tree that’s getting most of the attention these days for its purported antioxidant properties.




