It has a spherical fruit of 10 to 32 mm of diameter, pink color that varies to dark red. It is soft. In wild state Camu Camu grows in the bank of the rivers, part of the trunk submurged in water to a height of 30 to 40%, of its total length. The season for its crop is in the months of December to March.

Composition and chemical analysis of Camu Camu 

(Content of 100 gms., eatable part was of 2,634 mg )

Mayor Components ( gms )    Minerals ( mgs )

Calories                                     : 16

Calcium                                     : 28

Water                                         : 93.2

Phosphurus                               : 15

Proteines                                   : 0.5

Iron                                            : 0.5

Fats                                           : 0.0

Carbohydrates                           : 4.0

Fiber                                          : 0.5

Ashes                                        : 0.2

Vitamines ( mgs )

Carotene: 0.00

Thiamine: 0.01

Riboflavine: 0.04

Niacin: 0.61

Reduced Ascorbic Acid: 2089.0 ( * )

Therapeutic use:

As Natural Vitamin C, favors the formation of the collagen, protein that sustains many corporal structures and forms bones, teeth, gums, blood vessels and skin. It can stimulate natural defenses of the organism and intervenes in the absorption of the iron from vegetable foods. Scurvy is the classic manifestation of serious lack of ascorbic acid or Vitamin C.

Uses

Food supplement. anti-oxidant . It increases the defenses of the organism. Stimulates Inmune system and antibacterial.

It prevents infections and prevents scurvy.

Intervenes in the formation of teeth, bones and conjunctive tissues. Capillar fragility, hemorrhage, malformation of bones and teeth.

Helps avoid fatigue, important for the formation of muscles, tendons and ligaments.

Essential for the absorption of iron Prevents Sportsman's Anemia

Exerts a preventive and therapeutic action of the cellular aggression due to oxidation by radicals, in ocular illnesses as macular degeneration related to age and cataract.

Diets with good amount of Vitamin C is important for children, pregnant women or women that are breast geeding