Health Benefits of Acerola

What are the health benefits and vitamins in Acerola?

Vitamins in Acerola

→ Acerola or Barbados Cherry is a small sized sweet fruit cultivated in caribbean origins.
→ It is rich source of Vitamin C, thus it helps in preventing heart diseases, blood clots and cancer.

→ Traditionally its been used in treating the dysentery, diarrhea, fever, liver disorders and also used as astringent.
→ It helps in diabetics management by lowering the sugar level in the blood stream and regulating the insulin level.

Here you can view the detailed vitamin sources of Acerola or Barbados Cherry.

Vitamins	Unit	Value per 100g
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	1677.6
Thiamin	mg	0.020
Riboflavin	mg	0.060
Niacin	mg	0.400
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.009
Folate, DFE	µg	14
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.00
Vitamin A, RAE	µg	38
Vitamin A, IU	IU	767

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