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Acai Berry Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

What are acai berries?
A: Acai berries are the fruit from acai palm tree.

What does an acai berry look like?
A: A small, round berry about 25 mm (1 in) in circumference.

What color is the skin of the ripe fruit?
A: A deep purple color, or green, depending on the kind of açaí and its maturity.

What is the flesh like?
A: Pulpy and thin, with a consistent thickness of 0.04 in or less.

It surrounds the what?
A: Voluminous and hard endocarp, which contains a single large seed about 0.3–0.4 in. in diameter.

The seed makes up about what percentage of the fruit?
A: 60-80%.

The acai palm bears fruit year round but the berry cannot be harvested during what period?
A: The rainy season.

 
The acai palm is cultivated mainly for what reason?
A: For the fruit.

What are açaí palms like?
A: They are tall, slender trees growing to more than 82 ft. tall, with leaves up to 9.8 ft. long.

The fruit may be sold as a what?
A: A frozen fruit puree or bottled juice drink with added sugar.

The closely related palm species is the primary source of what?
A: Hearts of palm.

The common name comes from the Portuguese adaptation of what Tupian word?
A: The Tupian word ïwaca'i, meaning "fruit that cries or expels water".

Where is the acai fruit a staple food?
A: In the Amazon River delta.

The fruit, is produced in branched panicles of how many fruits?
A: 500 to 900 fruits.

 
There are two harvests: one is normally between January and June, while the other is when?
A: Between August and December.

Which one is more important?
A: The last harvest is the most important.

Branco' is a rare variety of acai palm local to where?
A: The Amazon estuary.

With this variety the berries do not what?
A: Change color, but remain green when ripe.

This is believed to be due to a what?
A: A recessive gene.

It has less iron and fewer antioxidants, but more what?
A: Oil and many believe it to have a superior taste and digestibility to purple açaí.

BRS-Para Dwarf is a variety that was developed by whom?
A: The Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency.

 
It grows much shorter, to how tall?
A: 16 to 23 ft.

It fruits sooner (3 years from seed), and produces a what?
A: A larger seed yielding 25% more fruit pulp than wild açaí.

A powdered preparation of freeze-dried açaí fruit pulp and skin was reported to contain what? (per 100 g of dry powder)
A: 533.9 calories, 52.2 g carbohydrates, 8.1 g protein, and 32.5 g total fat.

The carbohydrate portion included how much dietary fiber?
A: 44.2 g.

The fat content of açaí consists of what?
A: Oleic acid (56.2% of total fats), palmitic acid (24.1%), and linoleic acid (12.5%).

Açaí also contains what percentage of phytosterols?
A: 0.05%

A comparative analysis from in vitro studies reported that açaí has intermediate polyphenol content relative to 11 varieties of frozen juice pulps, scoring lower than what?
A: Acerola, mango, strawberry, and grapes.

 
The medical watchdog website Quackwatch said that "açaí juice has what?
A: Only middling levels of antioxidants.

It had less than what?
A: Concord grape, blueberry, and black cherry juices, but more than cranberry, orange, and apple juices.

In the 1980s, the Brazilian Gracie family marketed açaí as a what?
A: As an energy drink or as crushed fruit served with granola and bananas.

In the early 2000s, Ryan and Jeremy Black started what, to import açaí into the US?
A: Sambazon.

In the early 2000s, many companies flooded the internet with açaí advertising, many of them with what?
A: Counterfeit testimonials and products.

In 2009, açaí scams were ranked “what” on the US FTC's "scams and rip-offs" list?
A: #1.

Açaí was promoted heavily for it’s what?
A: Antioxidants and many false claims were and are made.

 
According to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest thousands of consumers have had what?
A: Trouble stopping recurrent charges on their credit cards when they cancel free trials of some açai-based products.

By 2011, Ralph Carson, the formulator of MonaVie, cautioned the public that the product was in fact nothing more than what?
A: "Expensive flavored water” and that any claims made about it were “purely hypothetical, unsubstantiated and, quite frankly, bogus".

The FTC handed down an $80 million judgment in January 2012 against five companies that were marketing açaí berry supplements with fraudulent claims that their products did what?
A: Promoted weight loss and prevented colon cancer.

One company, Central Coast Nutraceuticals, was ordered to pay a fine of how much?
A: A $1.5 million settlement.

The oil is suitable for cooking or as a salad dressing, but is mainly used in what?
A: Cosmetics as shampoos, soaps or skin moisturizers.

There remains no substantial evidence that açaí polyphenols have any what?
A: Effect in humans.

Açaí oil is green in color, has a bland aroma, and is high in what?
A: Oleic and palmitic fatty acids

 
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