7 tips for choosing your acai supplier

acai berry

Hailing from the Amazon, açai is traditionally eaten with cassava flour as a sauce over meat or fish, but today, it's in the form of açaí bowl that it's best known. This Brazilian dish made with açai berries is served as a thick smoothie in a bowl and topped with granola, fruit, guaraná syrup and more.

With its many health benefits, acai is increasingly consumed in the United States and Europe.

You don't want to miss out on this superfruit, and you're right! 

But how do you choose the right acai supplier?

 

Here are 7 tips to help you select your acai supplier 

Guaranteed quality açai

It's important to take several factors into account to ensure product quality, from harvest to processing. When choosing a supplier, favor those who use high-quality fresh fruit, to preserve as much of its flavor and nutritional properties as possible.

At Nossa, we guarantee the finest açai by adhering to strict specifications. We carry out microbiological, organoleptic and physico-chemical tests on each batch before approval.

 

Acai berry

 Our approach

  • Brazilian subsidiary since 2020
  • Hand-picked, fully ripe fruit
  • Certified organic acai grown in agroforestry
  • Processing guaranteed within 48 hours of harvest
  • Systematic pasteurization and rapid freezing
  • French food-safety oversight with the strictest specifications on the market
  • Systematic organoleptic, microbiological and physico-chemical testing of all batches before shipment

Ordering our acai means offering your customers a high-quality, responsible product!

...and the certifications to prove it!

In the food sector in particular, it is essential to select a supplier who complies with all the regulations and certifications required to ensure food safety and quality.

Our açaí is organic and Fair for Life certified, and our products meet the ISO FSSC 22000 standard.

Our certifications

A strong reputation 

An acai supplier's reputation can tell you a lot about the quality of its products and the level of customer service it offers. 

Nous travaillons avec des grands noms de l'hôtellerie et de la restauration tels que le Four Seasons, Le W, Poke House ou encore Mango Tree...

 

 Our açai's origin, fully transparent

Our acai is exclusively grown in certified organic agroforestry, without any fertilizers or pesticides, and its harvesting provides resources to local people while preserving ecosystem biodiversity.

In our case, all harvesting is done by hand, so production emits no greenhouse gases. On the contrary, growing acai helps to limit deforestation and thus store carbon in the forest. Moreover, we work through short supply chains with harvesting communities under fair trade principles (Nossa is Fair for Life certified), so as to guarantee pickers better incomes and greater autonomy..

 

When you offer one of our delicious acai products to your customers, you're not only promoting better, healthier eating habits, you're also helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest and improve the quality of life of local communities!

 The variety of available products

As experts in acai, we offer it in various forms, so that you can find the product that suits you and meets your needs.

Our range of products for the hotel-café-restaurant trade includes : 

  • The "Acai as in Brazil" sorbet in individual servings and 2L formats
  • The Acai,intense acai andguaraná acai pulps in the following formats:
    • 100g pods
    • 8g pebbles
    • 5kg bags
  • Organic machine mix
  • 4 ready-to-blend frozen smoothies


We're the only ones to offer you acai pulp with dry matter percentages ranging from 10 to 14% so you can meet every need and optimize your margin.

Please note that the percentage of dry matter does not affect taste or color, but rather the açai concentration. So, if you've been serving açai for a long time to a regular clientele and enjoy it pure, we recommend the 14% concentrated pulp.

If you're launching your açai bowl offer to a new audience and adding fruit and sugar, go with the 10% option.

Try a blind test and see for yourself!

 Values aligned with yours

All our development at Nossa is guided by our 5 core values:

  • Transparency regarding our products and actions
  • Benevolence among employees and with our partners
  • Sustainability: our actions and products help preserve the planet and improve people's lives
  • Demanding product quality and service reliability
  • Fun: we want to spread Brazilian joy of living

 

The Nossa team

 Listening to our customers

Answering your questions promptly, providing all the information you need, staying responsive and supporting you before, during and after your order... We make it a priority to be there for you!

Pour recevoir notre catalogue CHR ou pour plus de renseignements sur nos produits à destination des professionnels, appelez-nous au 09 67 07 07 74 ou contactez-nous sur [email protected]!

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