The fruit is largely used in cooking recipes due to its sweet, sour, acid and bittersweet flavours by native Amazonian communities.
If you haven’t heard or lack information about cupuacu, try out innumerous options based on this healthy fruit! Due to its sweet-acid flavors, cupuacu is used in ice cream, juices, vitamins, creams, jellies, non-alcoholic wines, liquors, chocolate candies, cupulate (cupuacu chocolate) among other dishes were it can figure as a “side dish option” or “complementary ingredient”.
I is also used for cosmetic purposes. Cupuacu’s butter, extracted from its seeds, is a triglycerides with a balanced composition of saturated and unsaturated fat acids. It is mainly used as an emollient cream base in cosmetics, due to its soothing “touch properties”. Cupuacu is being used by the cosmetic industry to recover dried skins, treating dermatitis and skin healing process.
Since the year 2008, Cupuacu was recognized as a “typical and legitimate Brazilian fruit”. Asahi Foods lost its patent for Cupuacu.