Açai Study Ranks 2nd among " Top 10 Medical Studies of 2006 "

After a review of more than 300 research reports on berries in 2006, The Berry Doctors ranked a study on the açai berry in its freeze-dried form (the same form used in MonaVie brand products) 2nd among the Top 10 Medical Studies of 2006. The study, conducted by Drs. Schauss (recipient of the Linus Pauling Lecture Award), Wu (leading antioxidant specialist at the USDA), Prior (inventor of the ORAC assay), et al., is titled "Antioxidant capacity and other bioactivities of the freeze-dried Amazonian palm berry, Euterpe oleraceae mart. (açai) "and was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (J Agric Food Chem. 2006 Nov 1;54(22):8604-10).

Here's an excerpt from the article: "açai fruit from the South American tropics has the strongest antioxidant properties yet observed and has high promise for entering first-world markets as a functional food ingredient.... "