Cupuaçu butter

Cupuaçu, Theobroma grandiflorum, is an abundant, uncultivated food crop of the Amazon basin. Related to cacao, the tree thrives in poor soil and tosses its fruit to the ground when they’re ready to harvest.

In Brazil, the fruit eaten in confections and desserts. The fats from the seed are rich enough to be whipped into ice creams and are rich in bioactive polyphenols (plant chemicals that activate your body’s chemicals).

Cupuaçu butter is derived from the often discarded, edible seed. It’s an easy to absorb collection of skin supporting fatty acids with a high oleic acid (omega-9) content. Oleic acid slips into the skin’s intercellular pathways and providing anti-inflammatory benefits beneath the surface.

In a clinical study, Cupuaçu butter sped healing time in elders.