HOW AÇAI IS MADE IN THE AMAZON (THIS IS CRAZY!) BRAZIL | PARÁ STATE
these are the acai palms the peconia is made with the leaf of the acai i'm climbing up the tree right now first of all good morning from bellam we are gonna see how acai is gathered and how they make it and hopefully we will even be a part of that process we're gonna get deep into acai like we've never like we've never gone before so all of these palm trees that you're seeing right here there are acai palm trees and that is what we'll be discovering in a different way today do okay we're here can hang on this that is how it's done okay we just arrived this is where we're gonna see how acai is harvested and made this is the part of the trip we have been really looking forward to we eat tons of acai but we don't really know how they collect it from these tall trees so let's go find out so these trees that we're going through right now these are the acai palms so acai comes from palm trees but a specific variety and that's what all of these are so this guy's gonna climb up and show us how it's done from the moment we arrived in brazil i was hoping that we would get to see where acai comes from and we had no idea that we would actually get to see this so this 28 years old living in the island all of his families lives in here contempt more than a hundred years old his family lives in here has life in the island has lived in the island with the community of the combo island and the pacific river and now he's going to show demonstrate for us how to climb the acai palm tree to do that you're going to have to use this tool in here normally the peconia is made with the leaf of the assay but boa and other producers in here they discovered that the peconia made with a plastic bag is more reliable than the ones that you can make with the leaf this is used to chop the palm tree or the fruit of assay the brazilian for it is balayo okay but translating is a basket so this one is used with wood and with plastic so it will last way longer than the ones made just with wood and in here is where we put the acai that we retrieve from the from the tree he's going to put on the feet the peculiar prepare the hands and just go up okay i won't lie this is crazy he's so high up there sometimes in the jungle they have to go from one to one another like that to climb more of a sail so wow so now we're going to climb the tree and you use this little thing here you put your feet inside of it and it helps you to kind of grasp the tree you have to jump and kind of pull your feet around the trunk of the tree and then you don't hold yourself up by your arms you hold yourself up more by the force of your feet and your legs going forward against the tree so first you put your feet in yes of course i'm sure he made it look a lot easier than it actually is open up a little bit of your feet it has to be very tight okay then your hands you gotta go like this one in here and another in here careful don't break your toes this will open your legs and stash both feet like this i can't do that no that's not happening how does he do that it is a workout no it's a two three yep yep now pull back up okay okay because if you can do like this you're like if you do like this it's going to be more neutral i feel like it doesn't want to pull me this way there you go go back up yep just hold the strength is on your leg so to collect the acai berries you have to go up manually so he uses this plastic tie around his feet and he uses that to get leverage and climb all the way up and then he has a machete to actually get the berries so it's not as easy as you may think to get these berries they don't use machines he just goes up on his own hops from tree to tree and collects these berries and puts them in a basket as you can see we were not very successful with this i think it would take a bit of practice it seems like it requires a little bit of strength but mostly technique wow even she can do it i guess without them whoa without it wow good job alex is determined to get this took his shirt off that means serious business all right so you step into this nice little feet ring i'm going to try to break my record i think i've gotten to about here oh look at that i feel confident that if we ever got stuck in the amazon alex could retrieve acai berries for me and this acai is made with a machete basket and a man climbing up a woman too who's been climbing up look at this i'm climbing up the tree right now for samasai i have to say as we've learned about the acai production and the chocolate production it makes you appreciate the food that much more we already love both of those items chocolate and acai but now when i eat it i'm gonna think about all the work that goes into it and appreciate it that much more i think everyone should learn a little bit more about where their food comes from catch my breath because like lindsay said it makes you appreciate it more a lot of people don't know where their food comes from at all you kind of turn a blind eye to where it's coming from and the whole process behind it how difficult it is to get something you just go to a grocery store and buy borrowed chocolate or an acai bowl but there's someone behind the scenes who's climbing trees taking it down planting seeds doing a whole process that takes a week or two like in the case of chocolate so yeah we're definitely guilty of that just going through the motions eating the food without much thought but this is teaching us a new perspective all right after climbing those trees and gathering acai we're going to shower in the river or at least our feet we're just showering in the river after gathering that up right feels so good it's so warm okay let's get into the next step of the acai making process we have a machine here and we're going to learn how they do the rest of it and then we're going to eat them so after they retrieve the berries from the tree they wash them with water and they soak them in warm water to soften the skin once it's softened then they can put it in this machine to separate the skin from the pulp so he adds the berries and water into this machine depending on how much water he adds that's going to make it more thick or less thick so obviously the more water you add the more thinning consistency it's going to be oh yeah that is pure gold purple gold oh the color of that acai is amazing it looks so good that purple it's a rich purple color and it just makes you want to eat all of it right now so the bucket of acai berries that he has will produce around four liters of acai which is quite a bit okay now the seeds are gonna come out they're just gonna pop right out of here so what this machine is used for is to separate the pulp or the skin of the acai berry from the seed which is really most of it actually it's just a little bit of skin and pulp to mostly seed i have a visual for you so this is the acai berry this is the seed so only five percent of the acai berry is the pulp which is what you eat you just throw away about 95 of the food oh okay so now i must warn you this is fresher how i'm blessed to live in my state yes you are i'm so sorry for you now all right this is the freshest acai we will ever try in our whole entire life amazing so this is how you eat it here so we have the acai a big bowl that's the way to do it and then we have a little bit of sugar and then we have a little bit of sugar here if you want it but we're going to try that after we try it without the sugar then we have the tapioca and we have the mangoka first we're going to try it without ice so it's not cold because sometimes when things are cold it can change the flavor it's good even warm wow and you know it's good when it coats your teeth purple did it yeah you know it's pure mmm so creamy that is a such a good consistency perfect i do prefer it cold so i'm going to add some ice i have a little ice too like alex said you know it's a good oxide when it coats your teeth purple and your lips are purple too how is it oh man this is delicious is it pure yes very pure very delicious and pure do you need to brush your teeth okay so i just put some ice and a little bit of sugar in it because we are used to it being really sweet but if you just put a little sugar into it to make it just a tiny bit sweet that is how it's best so that is phenomenal you have flavors in this that are lost when you get in other places this bowl and today has really shown us how much flavor can be lost in the process so in the process of shipping preservatives time just the whole process of getting food from its origin to your table you can lose a lot and in this bowl there are a lot of extra flavors that we haven't had before and that is just because it came so fresh straight from the source we're losing nothing you can almost taste the tree hey it's lunchtime this is a tambaki fish we call it tambaki okay where he's inside with what we call piran okay it's a mix with mania flour and tutuppi sauce this is jambu all right here we have fried bananas fried potatoes sheeps uh carrots and this is all for us we have a salad we have sauce and we have the paradise rice with mango on it the mother's beans it was his mother who actually does that and this guy's this is the best that we can offer this is the best of home cooking all right we are about to have a home cooked meal we've been eating a lot of food in belem from restaurants but this is cooked inside of their home the mom cooks it and it looks incredible look at the teeth on this thing it's so handy this is fried banana this looks so crispy where do we even begin the fish caught in the river here they served it in its entirety so this is a pot of a bunch of beans some meat it looks like a beef some bacon a vegetable or two this one i can't remember the name of i don't know if we've had it yet looks amazing let's that perfect beans this is what too much food and acai will do to you can't really see him but he's taking a nap so as you guys know we put out videos on youtube we put out as much content as we can but we can't put out everything on youtube we also have shorter video clips and photos that we can't put here so if you want to see more follow us on instagram lindsay travel bum and alexander travel bomb hey guys thanks for watching this video if you want to see more videos like this one click one of these and subscribe right here because we're traveling all around the world and we're sharing the whole thing with you
2021-03-18 23:30
