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Where Have The Barbados Cherry Gone?
Where Have The Barbados Cherry Gone? Have you ever noticed how things become popular or important for a time and then seem to disappear. The Barbados Cherry better known as "Acerola" is such an item. I can remember back that the acerola was the rage. It was in every thing. Were did it go and why? The big rage for acerola started when a company that made baby juices decided that one drop of acerola juice was as good as one serving of orange juice. This was in the 1950's when research was just beginning to research plants as the acerola for a better source of vitamin C . Vitamin C is an essential metabolic nutrient that is needed to prevent scurvy (lack of correct collagen synthesis causing sores and loss of teeth). Scurvy is a preventable deficiency disease that is cured by taking any product that has ascorbic acid. Scurvy usually attacked people who where at sea for long periods of time without access to fresh fruits and foods that have vitamin C (crystalline ascorbic acid). Once the deficiency was understood the carrying of lemons and limes aboard ships on long voyages solved this issue. The British Navy had a perseverance or better access to limes so to this day when you say, "There's a "limey" you're referring to someone from the British Isles or British Navy. Acerola was "queen of the may" until it was found that synthetic ascorbic acid would work just as well as the natural plant acerola plus it was cheaper. This synthetic ascorbic acid discovery lead to the decrease of acerola plantations. The synthetic was more cost effective, and its quality did not vary. The acerola's vitamin C content varied depending on the greenness or ripeness of the fruit. This new information lead the Nutrilite Products Comany to abandon its large plantation in Hawaii. In addition, another nature source plant for vitamin C, the camu-camu, had been discovered; and it had additional nutritional values. It seems the great "Barbados Cherry" the acerola has been retired to being cultivated in China as a bonsai tree that is appreciated for the tiny cherry fruits produced from the "bonsaing" of the acerola plant. Research from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/barbados_cherry.html#Description
http://www.rain-tree.com/acerola.htm
http://www.rain-tree.com/camu.htm zzzzz |
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