After contacting Gisele, my favourite person from Brazil, the home of the Acai Berry, I?m happy to say I now can teach you how to make an acai bowl – original style.
I bet not even the hippest California Sunshine Breakfast House can serve any better. Açaí na tigela, man!
But first let?s answer a couple of important questions on acai berries and then dive into how to make a proper acai bowl.

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What is Acai"
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What is acai"
Left photo by Forest Starr and Kim Starr, right photo by Eli Duke
Acai is a dark purple berry that tastes like a combination of wild berries, chocolate and soil, yep soil. The berry is not sweet and you can?t just munch them like blueberries, because about 90% of it is the stone!
The berries grow on the acai palm tree, natively around the Amazon river in South America (1).
Since these trees need rainforest conditions, Brazil and surrounding countries are pretty much the only places where acai berries are cultivated.
Oh and Açaí is pronounced: ?ah-sigh-EE?

Health benefits of acai berries
You probably want to make an acai bowl, because you heard of the amazing health benefits this so-called superfruit brings along"
Well, here is what they do for you:
Acai berries are a rich in antioxidants (like other berries too). That?s great, because a diet rich in antioxidants has been linked to contribute against the eff...