Camu Camu: More Vitamin C Than Any Other Food Source On Earth

Camu camu is a shrub that grows low to the ground and is found throughout the rain forests of the Amazon within Brazil, Columbia, and Peru. It produces a lemon sized, purplish red to light orange fruit that contains a yellowish pulp. This fruit boasts more natural vitamin C than any other food source recorded anywhere on Earth, in addition to potassium, beta-carotene, iron, calcium, niacin, protein, phosphorus,serine, leucine, thiamin, and valine. These powerful amino acids and phytochemicals have a surprising range of therapeutic effects. Camu camu has antioxidant, astringent, anti-inflammatory, nutritional and emollient properties.

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