Liberal Amazon #25 - Açaí and its multiple possibilities
Description
Internationally known, açaí is a fruit with rich nutritional values, such as vitamins, antioxidants, fats and proteins. Consumed as food both outside and inside Brazil, the plant extraction in the country is entirely concentrated on the açaí plantations within the Legal Amazon area, which totaled more than 220,000 tons in 2020, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
In addition to being part of the food culture in the Northern region, açaí serves as a source of income for many families, from extractivism to pulp sales points in cities. Given its importance, scientists have discovered other possibilities to take more advantages of the fruit versatility, with potential to be turned into other products for the food industry, such as powder, oil, animal feed, as well as production of some kind of paper and even use applied to generate bioenergy.
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