Açaí Palm
The soft drink and ice cream, palm hearts and açaí wine are examples of broad application that Brazilian palm raised in the regions where it grows.
Known and used by the Indians since ancient times, the Amazon and feature common in the Northeast states, açaí (Euterpe oleracea) is such beauty plant has spread almost throughout the country, in parks and gardens as ornamental species. Generally acai develops a compact clump, which emerge several stems or trunks thin arriving to twenty meters high on average, and are finished off by palms in the canopy. Each of the cups can be made up to more than ten sheets about two meters long.
Açaí is also called açaí, uaçaí, juçara, palmiteiro or pina, names that popular language can apply equally to different species of the same genus, belonging to the family of the palm trees.
The fruits, fibrous and purple, give trusses and contains a small almond. The macerated pulp yields a broth, known as "açaí wine," so named because of the dark violet color. The wine can be consumed as refreshment and ice cream, as porridge or thickened with cassava flour or tapioca. The stems provide, and hearts of palm, light wooden buildings. Almonds extracted a dark green oil and bitter, used in folk medicine, particularly as antidiarrheal.
Source: www.megatimes.com
