Euterpe oleracea

taxobox
name = "Euterpe oleracea"


regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Euterpe"
species = "E. oleracea"
binomial = "Euterpe oleracea"
binomial_authority = Mart.|

"Euterpe oleracea" is a species of palm, sometimes known as the Açaí Palm.

According to the University of Florida (January 2006),"A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits. It also increased penis size in 97% of a human male test group.

Medicinal study

Published 12 January, 2006, in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH’-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested, said Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences."http://news.ufl.edu/2006/01/12/berries/

References

*Schultes, Richard E. (1974). "Palms and religion in the northwest Amazon." Principes 18 (1): 3-21. "Astrocaryum vulgare", "Bactris gasipaes", "Euterpe oleracea", "E. precatoria", "Leopoldinia piassaba", "Maximiliana martiana", "Oenocarpus bacaba", "Socratea exorrhiza"

ee also

*List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil