If made in the way it should, the freeze dried acai powder is the best form of the acai berries that exists. Acai berries are packaged in other forms too, such as juice and pulp, but because these are ‘wet’ forms of the berries, there is always scope for dilution. The benefit of a powdered form is that all the water content is effectively reduced and so what you get is a completely pure and nutritionally rich form of the acai berry.

It is important that you buy the acai powder from a reputed company though. It is important that is freeze dried too, because other forms of drying such as steam drying or sun drying will effectively remove the nutritional value of the berries from the powder. A lesser company that does not know its methods might be culpable of afflicting such a monstrosity on the acai. At the same time, you must know that there are some unscrupulous acai packagers who actually add filers like corn, rice and other products to add to the bulk of the acai powder. Be careful of who you buy your acai berry powder from; make sure that the company knows what it is selling and has a good track record.

Now, having said all that, we are in a position to understand why the freeze dried powder form of the acai berry is the best. The fact that it is the most concentrated form devoid of all water content is already understood, but there are other advantages also.

The powder form can be easily stored. Juices and pulps are inconvenient to store and they need to be consumed soon because even with the preservatives added in them, there is a chance that they might degrade in their nutritional content. The same is not true about the freeze dried acai powder, because the water content has been completely removed from this form. If you can think about the longevity of tea powder on your shelf, you will get a good idea of the longevity of acai powder too. You can retain it for a long time without worrying whether or not it will lose its goodness.

Speaking of preservatives, that brings us to the other problem with the pulp and juice forms. These forms need a lot of preservatives, and not all packagers will take due care to use only natural preservatives. You might be saddled with a product that says acai on the label but has a high concentration of dangerous synthetic preservatives inside it. With freeze dried powders of acai, this possibility is highly reduced mainly because the powder form does not require as many preservatives to keep fresh.

It is better to consume too. With juice and pulp you will occasionally be hunting for good recipes. But with the acai powder, this problem does not exist, because you can have it directly. Since a teaspoonful of acai powder will pack as much punch as half a cup of pulp can, it is more convenient to have it in the powder form than any other.