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To access the plantations, harvesters are not always able to go in mechanical transport. In rugged areas, they must go on foot, along paths in the jungle or navigating down the Amazon River, transporting it later to the plantations where the product is processed.
In both the more developed areas of cultivation and in the more difficult accessible areas, the harvesters climb the palm trees, cut the fruit laden branches with machetes and throw them down to people who gather them at the foot of the palms.
Transport is normally by truck, once received at the pulp weighing area. But to get to this point, a long hike along trails and by canoe is necessary if they come from the middle of the jungle, or by transport such as mechanical wheelbarrows if the plantation is very steep. This, it goes without saying, increases the price of the product.
The extraction of açai pulp, once received at the plantations, is carried out first through the manual selection of the product, as with the grapes of high quality wines, and later through semi mechanical means, pressing the fruit to extract the pulp and discarding the stone. The pulp is then moved to stainless steel packaging machine hoppers, for its subsequent storage.
The freezing of the product, in large freezing cold rooms, must be carried out within 7 hours from the beginning (harvesting) to the end (packaging) due to the extremely high antioxidant content contained in this super fruit.
The Manaus zone is a busy area at the road transport level, due to the great success of this super fruit. Hundreds of refrigerated trucks transport them across the country and to shipping ports and airports, for further processing, as is our case, in our factories for distribution to large retail chains in the country.
There are several types and classes of açai, so called Quality A up to Quality D. Açaí do Brasil® buys all of its products in regions using a documented monitoring and traceability plan. Our açai is “Class A”, the biggest in the market and our bananas and strawberry pulp are organic.
