Brazil's president Luiz Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, speaks to members of the media during the Cop30 Leaders Summit. Photographer: Dado Galdeiri/Bloomberg
If you want to make an Amazonian wince, tell them how you eat acai berries.
“They are not berries,” says Victor Lima, shaking his head in mock indignation as he points to the clusters of roundness hanging far up in an acai palm. “They are seeds.” And they are not, despite the hype in the nutrition and wellness world, a newly discovered superfood.
“We have eaten acai forever,” he says.
“And you add sugar, banana, chocolate – no, no, no. Acai is not sweet. We make a juice and we fry fish, shrimp, jerky beef and chicken in it. It’s savoury. That’s the way we do it in Para.
“Unless ... ice cream. It’s okay you sweeten it for ice cream.
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