Camu Camu is a fruit similar to a berry or a grape, with a size comparable to that of a cherry, with light bright-green and dark matte-red color. It has a very hard and thick skin and inside, a juicy sour and astringent pulp. The fruit is produced by a small shrub found throughout the Amazon rain forest of Peru and grows wild in swampy flooded areas in the shore line of the Amazon River and tributaries.
Its name comes from an old and extinct language that influenced the aboriginal people of the Amazon of Peru ... the name has a meaning on its own. In the aboriginal Amazonian language the word camu means lots of water, so camu camu means twice as much water, a name used to describe best the way this plant grows, underwater!
The extraordinarily high vitamin C content, in the order of 2-3% of fresh weight, and a large number of other nutrients, are the most important properties of the Camu Camu fruit and make it a one of a kind food.
In the 1930s, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi won the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying vitamin C and all its many health benefits. Although he successfully isolated the molecule ascorbic acid in his research, his studies clearly demonstrated the vastly superior benefits of consuming whole foods rich in vitamin C.
Camu Camu C++® is used for Immune Support as an antiviral. It is the best source of natural vitamin C, made from all natural and organic Camu Camu Berries from the Amazon of Peru, with the highest concentration in the market (30:1), 100% pure with no additives, excipients or fillers and with exceptional ORAC (Oxidative Radical Absorption Capacity – Antioxidant and Protective Capability) and Bioflavonoids content.
Highlights of our product:
• 30:1 Concentration
• Made with 100% select Certified Organic Camu Camu berries from the Amazon of Peru (only pulp and skin)
• Exclusive UHTCO's Cold Drying Process not used anywhere else in Peru
• Highest concentration of natural occurring vitamin C (16%~18% by weight) – No ascorbic acid spiking!
• ORAC 41,000 µmoleTE /gram
• 23mg/100g Bioflavonoids
• Active anti-viral properties (as per free radical testing made by Brunswick)
• Faster and prolonged bio-availability compared to synthetic compounds mimicking vit C - tested clinically in Belgium
• Stability vit C and ORAC for over 5 years
• No ascorbic acid added
• No citric acid found
• No additives, excipients or fillers added
Bioflavonoids have been used in alternative medicine as an aid to enhance the action of vitamin C, to support blood circulation, as an antioxidant, and to treat allergies, viruses, or arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.