With a post title that might be more suited to a fairy tale than to a serious discussion of the benefits of taking more acai berry into your diet, you might be excused for thinking that ‘night vision’ isn’t really a serious benefit.
You’d be wrong.
The anthocyanins in acai berry help our bodies in a myriad of different ways. Of course, the acai berry is not the only fruit that have large amounts of anthocyanins in them. Another is the humble bilberry.
The story goes that in the Second World War, British pilots ate lots of bilberry jam just before dangerous missions into occupied territory. The pilots were all convinced that this bilberry actually helped greatly in improving their vision generally, and their night vision in particular.
It might be easy to write this off as superstition but then there is corroborating evidence from Japan, where bilberries are used to ease eye strain caused by too much staring at computer screens.
Scientists have managed to pinpoint exactly where these benefits come from, and they have found that the anthocyanins do help with vision, amongst other things. They also help in fighting off glaucoma and macular degeneration.
The acai berry contains more of these anthocyanins than the traditional bilberry ‘cure’. Worth considering.
