Friday, February 11, 2011

FRUITS OF BRAZIL - Jabuticaba

In yesterday's post about summer flavors of ice cream in Brazil, I mentioned a flavor of ice cream called jabuticaba. I'm sure that the word meant nothing to most readers of Flavors of Brazil - all except those who might have run into the jabuticaba in it's home territory, which is Brazil and more particularly the state of Minas Gerais. Although the jabuticaba (from a Tupi word meaning "place where turtles are found") grows in most regions of Brazil, it's association with Minas Gerais is so strong that the jabuticaba tree appears on the coat of arms of the city of Contagem, and another city in Minas Gerais, Sabará, hosts a jabuticaba festival annually.

Jabuticaba grows on a large deciduous tree, which can reach 8-10 meters (25-25 feet) in height. The fruit grows directly from the trunk and branches of the tree, which gives the jabuticaba tree a very unusual appearance when in fruit. The fruit itsel is a small and round, about the size of a table grape. It has a single seed, a thick skin and a dark, deep purple color. During jabuticaba season in Minas Gerais when thousands of street vendors sell fresh jabuticaba in small net bags, the sidewalks and streets are stained the same deep purple by discarded jabuticaba skins.

The bulk of the jabuticaba crop is eaten fresh, but the fruit has many culinary and medicinal uses as well. Culinarily it is turned into jelly, juice, liqueurs and vinegar. The fruit is high in beneficial antioxidants, and has high levels of iron. In traditional indigenous medicine, jabuticaba juice is given to pregnant women, which aids them because of its high iron content. Also a tea made from the dried skins of jabuticaba is used in traditional medicine as a treatment for asthma, diarrhea and is gargled to alleviate sore throats.

Because of these potent medicinal properties, jabuticaba is considered a prime candidate to follow guaraná and açaí to the markets of North America and Europe as the next "super-fruit." At the moment the market for this fruit and for its products in almost entirely domestic, but that situation might change dramatically in the near future.

9 comments:

  1. que saudades de Minas e Jabuticaba!!

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  2. Espero que puder matar a saudade um pouco ao ler Flavors of Brazil!
    JAMES

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  3. Jabuticaba want to get the fruit and seed. Could you help me?

    homeros99@gmail.com

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  6. Dear Editor, Author, or persons authorized to give copyright permission.

    I am writing to you to get the permission to use your articles in my book The Foodpedia Fresh Fruits and Vegetables books series and other books will follow, on the history of other items in the food world. That will help the people of the world to eat and stay Healthier.

    I care and I hope you care about passing on to the new generation to stay Healthier.

    (REMEMBER SHARING IS CARING ! )

    I am writing these books to “give back” my knowledge to the next generation of people, all over this world. I am writing these books to educate the people about the advantages of eating “Fresh Fruits” and “Fresh Vegetables” and how they can help themselves to have a healthier body, and the foods that are not good for a healthy body.

    I got your name from the website. On the Fruit you wrote about. I have your name on the information that I used, so that you will get all the credit on it. I do not want the credit for your works. You’re the one that did all the research on the food items. I have to rely on you for all this knowledge and your researchers.

    I praise you for this, that is why I want you to get all the credit you put in to these articles.
    I have to rely on your help to teach and training our next generation to live healthier. Then living on all this junk food and all the chemical’s they put into the foods we eat today.
    That is why we are the product of this generation of obesity etc. We have to help our new generation to eat and stay healthier so they can have a better life, then being sick and overweight all the time.
    The world is changing and we have to change with it NOW for our kid’s sake.

    This is the 21st Century NOW, and we have to do something about it NOW!
    I am on a movement (mission) of caring and share to help, not to make the same mistake this generation and our pass generations has made, to help them live healthier lives better then we did.

    But I need your help to get this mission (movement) going. I need your permission to let this happen, to use your research in food, to train and educate the people of the world to eat healthier.

    Remember the people will go to your website for more updates. Because you are always updating it, that I cannot do.
    Can you please e-mail the permission letter to authorize me to use your articles in my books (The History of Fresh Fruits. { Foodpedia The History of Fresh Fruit }) I have about 130 chapters of some of the fresh fruit used around the world, with over 5,000 color pictures, and about 5,000 pages).
    Can you please email {foodpediapjh@gmail.com } with your permission to use your articles so we can help the this and the next generation to live and be healthier.

    Thank You Chef Paul J. Hintersteiner

    Enclosed is the website of the articles I need permission on
    http://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.com/2011/02/fruits-of-brazil-jabuticaba.html

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  7. I am very very sorry you will let not let me use your article(s) in my book, You have excellent information to pass on to our next generation the people will not know your knowledge of these fresh fruits. My book will go world wide and printed in all languages and be part of my quest into the 21st century. I am going were no man has going before.
    I am giving back my knowledge back because I cannot take it with me. But I can leave it for the next generation to lean from and to live a better and healthier life. It will help them to learn from our generation the mistakes we made. With the use of all the chemicals that poisoned our generation used on and in the food eat today.
    Your article(s) would have help in this quest to give knowledge and the mistakes we made in the past century. The good and the bad we have processed. My books will reach more people in this world than your website will. About 90 % will not now or take the time to search it and read your information. The generation now and the future generation wants it now right in their hand to read about. The people of to day and tomorrow are so busy that they will not take the time to research it. I took me over 5 years to get all this information, of all the fruits and vegetables (next Book) we eat to day.

    I am very very sorry you will not be joining me in the quest to save our next generation in the 21st century.

    (The of IBM back 1986 or about, Apple present IBM with the concept of a computer in every home and they laugh at him. Who would want a computer I there home? I do not have to say anymore.)

    I am very disappointed, your eyes and mind are closed and cannot see the future. To teach and help this and the next generation to get healthier, I am very sorry about that. I will DELETE you article(s) (knowledge) when I finish answering all my 325 request permission email I sent out.
    Chef Paul J. Hintersteiner

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  8. Dear Editor, Author, or persons authorized to give copyright permission.
    
I am writing to you to get the permission to use your articles in my book The Foodpedia Fresh Fruits and Vegetables books series and other books will follow, on the history of other items in the food world. That will help the people of the world to eat and stay Healthier. 
I care and I hope you care about passing on to the new generation to stay Healthier.


    (REMEMBER SHARING IS CARING!)
I am writing these books to “give back” my knowledge to the next generation of people, all over this world. I writing these books to educate the people about the advantages of eating “Fresh Fruits” and “Fresh Vegetables” and how they can help themselves to have a healthier body, and the foods that are not good for a healthy body.


    I got your name from the website. On the Fruit you wrote about. I have your name on the information that I used, so that you will get all the credit on it. I do not want the credit for your works.
    You’re the one that did all the research on the food items. I have to rely on you for all this knowledge and your researchers.
I praise you for this, that is why I want you to get all the credit you put in to these articles.
I have to rely on your help to teach and training our next generation to live healthier. Then living on all this junk food and all the chemical’s they put into the foods we eat today.
That is why we are the product of this generation of obesity etc. We have to help our new generation to eat and stay healthier so they can have a better life, then being sick and overweight all the time.
The world is changing and we have to change with it NOW for our kid’s sake.
This is the 21st Century NOW, and we have to do something about it NOW!

    I am on a movement (mission) of caring and share to help, not to make the same mistake this generation and our pass generations has made, to help them live healthier lives better then we did.
But I need your help to get this mission (movement) going. I need your permission to let this happen, to use your research in food, to train and educate the people of the world to eat healthier.
Remember the people will go to your website for more updates. Because you are always updating it, that I cannot do.
Can you please e-mail the permission letter to authorize me to use your articles in my books (The History of Fresh Fruits. { Foodpedia The History of Fresh Fruit }) I have about 166 chapters of some of the fresh fruit used around the world, with over 5,000 color and about 5,000 pages).

    Can you please email {foodpediapjh@gmail.com } with your permission to use your articles so we can help the this and the next generation to live and be healthier.
Thank You Chef Paul J. Hintersteiner 
Enclosed is the website of the articles I need permission on

    http://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.com/2011/02/fruits-of-brazil-jabuticaba.html

    

Hi This is the third time I am writing you to get permission to you your article(s) in my book The History of Fresh Fruit. From all over the world. Can you please send me the permission.
    Thank You Paul



    So I am not the only that believes in this Chef Paul

    I hope some one get this and pass it on to the right department . Thank You Chef Paul

    If I do not hear from you within 2 week I will put it in as public domain under the copyright law TX 6-17. Under Derivative work or compilation and Preexisting Material. SEE ATTACH FILE

    I do not want to do this. I want your permission (blessing) on this on this quest to save our next generation.

    I only using 1 of your articles. My book will go world wide, and the people will go back to your website for more information.
    We have to CARE FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION, WE MESSED UP OUR GENERATION SO WE HAVE TRY TO OUR NEXT GENERATION.
    SO WILL YOU PLEASE GRANT ME PERMISSION TO USE YOUR ARTICLES.
    THANK YOU CHEF PAUL J. HINTERSTEINER

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