Camu Camu Powder

About Camu Camu

Also known as Myrciaria Dubia, Camucamu, cacari, or camocamo, this ingredient comes fromt eh Amazon rainforest in Peru and Brazil.  Camu camu berries are fruit from a shrub.

Nutrition Benefits of Camu Camu

Camu camu is best known for it’s vitamin C; having the highest amount of natural vitamin C of any plant in the world.  There are various different things that Camu Camu may benefit – including arthritis, asthma, cold sores, immune system, depression, eye health, energy, chronic fatigue syndrome, gum disease, headaches, herpes, shingles, and various other conditions.

Nutrition Facts

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Camu Camu Powder scores well for 7 health goals

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The Research

Inflammation: Score 94

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Human: Camu Camu is superior to ascorbic acid in its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties in smokers. It can contribute substantially to the management of inflammatory conditions.

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Asthma: Score 92

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Camu Camu is found in the Ancient Berry Superfood Mix.

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Contains Vitamin C, which is beneficial for children with asthma.

Look Younger: Score 92

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Human: Camu Camu is superior to ascorbic acid in its anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties in smokers. Animal: It was shown to possess antigenotoxic and antioxidant activities.

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Fat Loss: Score 90

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Animal: Camu Camu reduced fat tissue, glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol and insulin blood levels.

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Cholesterol: Score 88

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Camu Camu reduced the total cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin, glucose and fat weight in adipose tissue.

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Diabetes (Type 2): Score 88

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Animal: Camu Camu reduces white fat tissue, glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol and insulin blood levels.

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Thyroid: Score 87

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Camu Camu is found in the Ancient Berry Superfood Mix.

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Contains Vitamin C, which may play a role in the reduction of thyroid cancer.

How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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