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A sour Amazonian berry packing more vitamin C than nature usually bothers to.
means A small, intensely sour reddish-purple berry from a shrubby Amazonian tree, prized as one of the richest natural sources of vitamin C and sold mostly as a tart powder or supplement.
from The name comes from a language of the Peruvian Amazon — most often traced to Indigenous terms in the region (the plant is widely known by its scientific name Myrciaria dubia). The doubled, drumbeat repetition 'camu camu' is typical of Amazonian plant and animal names, where reduplication is common, though the precise root meaning is not securely recorded.
- vitamin c
- Up to 60 times more than an orange
- too sour
- Rarely eaten raw, too acidic to enjoy
- river dweller
- Grows in Amazon floodplains, survives months underwater
- slow fame
- Ignored locally until supplement hype arrived