Hmm….well, it definately does sound decent, although I need to do research on what Acai actually is.

I don’t dispute your account of the taste of raw acai berries. I’ve searched other sites and seen similar tales about the taste of the raw berry. I once went to a presentation by the marketing director of Ocean Spray. She had a small bottle of pure cranberry juice. Nothing added. She dared anyone to come up to the stage and drink it. She said that anyone who could stand drinking the cranberry juice would likely say it tastes like battery acid. Hence, Ocean Spray must sweeten its products in order to please consumers. I don’t think that necessarily diminishes the health benefits of the cranberry juice contained therein.

The AgroLabs product mentioned in my post is sweetened with other fruit and berry extracts. I know pear or white grape juice is widely used as sweeteners in many products. To me, that says the company is committed to making the product as nutritionally beneficial as possible. Unless I turn into a raw foods fanatic, that’s more than good enough for me. And I’ll bet you any dietitian would tell you that people who are in relatively good health can still benefit from healthy foods and beverages. Maybe that’s one reason they’re in good health to begin with.

The real deal as as drunk in South America and in raw health food stores, cafés and restaurants does not taste like red wine and chocolate! And that’s at it’s strongest flavour.

The real acai berry is very low in sugar, and on its own as a drink, would not be interesting to the American public’s palate accustomed to over-processed foods; which is why the food companies are including extra additives.

However, since so many are having beneficial effects from it’s inclusion in foods, even at partial nutritional strength, it shows how unhealthy they were to begin with.

So that alone is a big plus.

Who could resist that combination? Plus, you get tons of other health benefits too!