Camu camu

Myrciaria dubia

Camu camu is one of the world’s most abundant sources of natural vitamin
C. It can provide up to 60 times more vitamin C than an orange. Its a
powerful antioxidant. This fruit from the Amazon rainforest is dried at low
temperature to protect its nutritional qualities. It raises the spirits and
strengthens the immune and nervous system. It helps to maintain healthy
eyes and skin, also healthy levels of white blood cells. It helps you to have a
good health. Main Actions: antioxidant, nutritive, astringent
Main Uses:
for its natural high vitamin C content
for colds/flu (for its vitamin C content)
for skin care/anti-aging (for its antioxidant, mineral, and vitamin content).

Camu camu is a superfruit from the Amazon rainforest that is the richest source of vitamin C on the planet. However, as this book will explain, camu camu is so much more than just this one vital vitamin. Camu camu not only provides a full complement of vitamins, minerals, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and a therapeutic amount of potassium but also contains an exorbitant amount of natural plant compounds called polyphenols that naturally occur in many fruits and vegetables.

The natural health industry has been promoting various superfruits, fruit extract supplements, and fruit powders for many years for the many health benefits they provide—the majority of which come from their polyphenol content. North American and temperate-climate fruits that fall into the superfruit category include cranberries, goji berries, blueberries, grapes, pomegranates, mulberries, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries. These fruits are all showing up in functional foods and beverages. However, there’s a widely popular and growing market for tropical superfruit products. Tropical fruits such as camu camu, acai, noni, maqui, acerola, graviola, cherimoya, cupuacu, passion fruit, guava, lucuma, and others contain many more polyphenols than temperate-climate fruits, and wild-harvested tropical fruits have the highest level of all.

One of the many benefits polyphenols deliver is to provide strong antioxidant actions, which offer a wide array of health and disease-prevention benefits. The important information revealed in this book is that camu camu provides higher vitamin C (which has strong antioxidant actions) and more antioxidant polyphenols than any other known fruit in North or South America. New research also indicates that camu camu provides better antioxidant actions than all other fruits as well. No other fruit compares to the combination of very high vitamin C with very high polyphenol levels that camu camu delivers.

This information is gathered directly from:
https://rain-tree.com/camu.htm