Frozen Açaí bowl
Good looks and popularity aside, are these bowls always healthy?The answer is: “it’s complicated”; there is no standard recipe to make them so they differ significantly.
The one thing they do have in common is the acai itself, a fruit sourced from South American rainforests. It’s full of antioxidants and low in sugar when compared to other fruits.
The secret is that since plain acai tastes bitter, we usually end up sweetening it – either in the powder mix we use, with artificial sugar & syrups or as a topping.
Hence, you can see how the seemingly super healthy meal can pretty quickly turn into a sugar bomb?
Fortunately, like most healthy food trends, there are ways to hack your acai bowl so it remains on the good-for-you end of the spectrum.