One of the large grocery store chains here in NE just starting selling, in their produce departments, small glass bottles containing maybe 7 oz. of a juice imported from Brazil, called acai juice. (The "c" in acai has the little line attached to its underside, like the second "c" in Curacao.) It looks like purple grape juice.
I'm just wondering if the fruit to make this juice is made from a fruit I used see local farmers on the Big Island grow; there it was called "jaboticaba", a.k.a. "tree grapes". Jaboticaba, not native to Hawai'i, is an import from Brazil. Seeing that acai juice is imported from Brazil, I'm just curious if this juice might actually be made from what's known as the jaboticaba fruit in Hawai'i, i.e., are acai and jaboticaba the same fruit?
I'm kind of leery of plunking down its high price for in order to sample it and find out that it's a completely different fruit which I might not like.
I think Hawai'i is scheduled (maybe has) to get some of this juice, as the glass bottle is marked with the 5 cent refund for deposit in HI reminder.
Has anybody here in the HT 'ohana tried this acai juice?
I'm just wondering if the fruit to make this juice is made from a fruit I used see local farmers on the Big Island grow; there it was called "jaboticaba", a.k.a. "tree grapes". Jaboticaba, not native to Hawai'i, is an import from Brazil. Seeing that acai juice is imported from Brazil, I'm just curious if this juice might actually be made from what's known as the jaboticaba fruit in Hawai'i, i.e., are acai and jaboticaba the same fruit?
I'm kind of leery of plunking down its high price for in order to sample it and find out that it's a completely different fruit which I might not like.
I think Hawai'i is scheduled (maybe has) to get some of this juice, as the glass bottle is marked with the 5 cent refund for deposit in HI reminder.
Has anybody here in the HT 'ohana tried this acai juice?
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