The Amazing Food You've Never Heard of....

Here's an article about just ONE of the amazing ingredients that are harvest fresh and blended into Terra-bio Tech's Nectr trio:

Rainforest Superfoods: Camu Camu

Wild berries provide potent vitamin C options; and that is just the start.

By Brooke Holmgren

If you were to hold a camu camu berry in your hand, it would look like a large reddish grape. But don’t be fooled by this berry’s small size and familiar appearance; it holds an abundance of antioxidants, phytochemicals, and unrivaled vitamin C content. It also boasts medicinal properties, serving as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and emollient.
Like most superfoods, camu camu grows in the fertile South American rainforest region, mostly residing in lowland areas throughout Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru, where it thrives in areas prone to flooding, especially along riverbanks. On average, the Myrciaria dubia bush, both wild and cultivated, yields approximately 24 pounds of edible fruit once per year.
Environment and Harvest
During harvest, which is usually after the rainy season when the berries exhibit a deep red color denoting their high vitamin-C content, harvesters travel down rivers via boat, pick the berries directly off the bush, and place them directly into coolers or freezers.
Like açai, camu camu deteriorates both physically and nutritionally before it can reach its desired place of import. Therefore, camu camu must be kept cool on its way to be prepared for sale.
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With the rise in camu camu’s popularity comes the question of environmental exploitation and impact. Typically, the more popular a food becomes, the weaker its enforcement and regulation becomes. Since camu camu is a rainforest food, environmental integrity surrounding the growing process and harvest is a concern.
Thankfully, most of the world’s supply of camu camu is wild harvested, an agricultural practice that allows for both plant and animal biodiversity.

Nutrition

What makes camu camu so special is its extraordinary vitamin-C content of 2.4 to 3 grams per 100 grams of fruit—which doesn’t occur in any other fruit known to humankind. Such high doses of vitamin C are known to prevent cellular damage and thus prevent cancer, heart disease, common illness, as well as playing a vital role in collagen production. And while camu camu does contain less vitamin C than synthetically produced tablets, the quality of the natural vitamin C far surpasses that of laboratory versions.
Camu camu’s bioavailability is due to the whole blend of phytochemicals and antioxidants within the fruit.  If you take a whole-food source of vitamin C, such as camu camu, your body doesn’t have to pull from its reserves.”
Essentially, no other fruit bears as much vitamin C, and no form of synthetic vitamin C can deliver the vitamin as effectively as camu camu can; our ancestors didn’t walk into a field or forest and pick ascorbic acid supplements off trees. Camu camu has also been said to treat depression, but the claim is still being debated since little research exists on camu camu alleviating it's symptoms; only self-reported, indirect evidence supports this claim. Some people hypothesize that depression stems from a lack of nutritional support for the central nervous system. If this is so, camu camu nourishes and stimulates the nervous system, thus relieving symptoms of depression.
This sentiment is echoed by nutritionist Gary Null, PhD, author of the Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing, who found that camu camu does have mood-balancing properties due to its high nutritional content.

Regulation 
While still obscure in nature to most North Americans, the promise of unparalleled, whole, complex vitamin C promises that camu camu will be supplied to the public through Terra-bio Tech for  years to come!

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