Acai Health Drink

The Acai berry has been a normal food for the local folk of Brazil for loads of years and has been around perhaps for thousands. The berry is also a vital personality in their folklore and a very important part of their legend culture too. There had been an Amazon girl named Iaca who was the child of the tribal chief. The clan started to run out of food and the chief had to declare that all of the babies born would need to be finished to keep the remainder of the clan alive.

Iaca was going to have a kid and her child was also to be included in the death toll. She mourned her kid for a couple of days and when she suspected she heard a baby crying and went out of the tent she found a tree growing and she laid down under the tree and died from grief. The clan found her body under the tree and the fruit of the tree satisfied the hunger they had felt for so long and helped them regain their strength.

The decree to kill all of the youngsters was lifted and the tree was named after his girl Iaca (Acai is Iaca spelled backwards ). This is where the tradition of the Acai tree and berries comes from.