Acai Juice: The Process of Acai Berry Juice Making
The Acai Berry Fruit is from a slim palm tree and not only natives in the Brazilian tropical rain forest feel affection for the Acai Berry Juice which is made of the pulp of its Acai fruits. Making it all by hands is a difficult task, but it´s also amusing and a good physical work out. Well, the exercise task is climbing the Acai palm trees to collect the infructescence, i.e. all those small black Acai berry fruits grow on a cluster of long branches that are tight jointly on a short trunk. The complicated part, after climbing up the Acai berry tree with the blade in your hand is then to cut the stem of the infructescence in a way that it will become lose enough to be shredded-off by hand. If you hit it too hard, it will drop down and most of the Acai berries will leave the branches when it hits the ground.
About 95% of the Acai berry fruits are seed and skin and only a very thin layer of Acai berry pulp lies between a hard skin and the seed. In order to detach the pulp from the seed, you first have to soak it in mid hot water for about half an hour. Then you take the Acai berries, put them into a basket and crush them with a wooded piece or a glass bottle, adding up a very small amount of water. This will mash the Acai fruit skin and loosen the pulp from the seed.
Then you put in a little more water to wash the Acai pulp and the crushed skin away from the seeds and finally filter the mixture to separate pulp from the skin parts.
Doing it all alone by a non-Brazilian can take them half a day to produce 5-6 liters of the tasty Acai juice. The native Amazonian do it this for enjoyment, but to earn living as Acai berry import has become the major source of their living.