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Acai – Food Or Drug?

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So here's the dilemma: If it's produce, then the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to call it a food. If you use it to heal you in some way, then the FDA wants to call it a drug... There is a very fine line in most peoples' minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just totally erased.

If one plant serves two different needs, such as a root sold as produce that can be used as a healing agent, (Ginseng and Green tea leaves also comes to mind) then we have to be really careful. Naturally we'd want it to be regulated so we don't accidentally overdose on it... Although I have no idea if a ginseng or green tea overdose would be harmful or not.

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