The Mona-Vie Acai Berry

The Mona-Vie Acai berry drink is developed to set a high standard and quality to the acai fruit juice industry. The Mona-Vie name come from the Amazonian term for the tree in which the acai berry grows and for their word meaning life. So together the drink carries the name Mona-Vie meaning the tree of life, signifying all that this powerful beverage has to offer the human body. In the Amazon rainforest grows a palm by the name of the acai palm reaching heights of fifteen to thirty meters, or forty-nine to ninety-eight feet tall. At the top of this palm grows berries, dark purple in color and about one inch in size, in groups or bunches called the acai berry. The acai berry is pronounced, “Ah-sigh-E”, and is scientifically combined with other compounds in Mona-Vie products to deliver essential components to the body in various forms.

The acai berry alone carries a long list of beneficial features including superior levels of antioxidants, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids, amino acids, complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and trace minerals. All in this small berry that is placed foremost in Mona-Vie products and is considered their “crown jewel” in their blends of top regarded fruit juices. Mona-Vie like most manufacturers attain their acai berry in a freeze-dried state, in powder form. The freeze-dried acai powder is considered the best procedure for capturing the most effective and concentrated elements found in acai fruit. Mona-Vie states that their beverage contains all the nutrients and antioxidants of the world’s most nutritious fruits in just two to four ounces in one day.

Mona-Vie is a specially chosen blend of twenty of the world’s most nutritional juices for their unique and nutritional properties - acai berry, apricot, aronia, acerola, purple grape, passion fruit, camu camu, banana, lychee fruit, apple, kiwi, pomegranate, prune, wolfberry, pear, bilberry, cranberry, blueberry and white grape make up the blend. Mona-Vie’s newer beverage product includes plant-originating glucosamine for all the benefits of the original Mona-Vie but adds another element for providing a structural component of cartilage and flexibility. Mona-Vie has recently marketed Mona-Vie gel packs either in original or in the active formulas for a convenient way to take in the daily dosage of antioxidants, nutrients, etc. The Mona-Vie are not cheap but items that are very carefully produced with the very best of ingredients usually are not on the affordable side of cost. In concern for the effects on the rainforest, the harvesting of acai berries has actually reduced illegal poaching of palm trees by providing a revenue on the sale of acai berries, a fruit that will continue to grow again. Each week, thousands of palm trees are illegally hacked to obtain a twelve-inch section of the tree known as palmito in order to produce the “heart of palm”. When this is done the whole tree dies, but in the case of the acai berry harvesting is it merely like picking apples, a person picks the fruit and leaves the tree intact for another growing season. So the acai berry manufacturing is helping the rainforest to stay alive and allowing the peoples of the area income while providing the world invaluable health benefits.