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Top 10 Brazilian
Juices
!
Açai
This purple Amazonian
palm berry drink has been
popular with locals for
thousands of years and is
packed with vitamins.
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Cupuaçu
This pod-like fruit is
related to cocoa and has a
sweet and pungent juice. The
taste is unusual but can be
strangely addictive.
A surfing enthusiast at Arpoador beach
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Camu-Camu
&
Arpoador
This Amazonian fruit
grows by seasonally flooded
rivers and has a very high
vitamin C content.
This beach around the rocky
headland at the southern end of
Copacabana features cafés,
coconut stalls, and juice bars
where Cariocas hang out. Strong
waves make it popular with
surfers but the rocks are unsafe
after dark.
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Map P6
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Recreio dos Bandeirantes
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Taperebá
A refreshing Amazonian
fruit juice high in vitamin C.
It is also supposed to have
antibiotic properties.
%
Acerola
Also known as West
Indian cherry juice, this is a
refreshing thirst-quencher.
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Graviola
Despite being very built up,
Recreio dos Bandeirantes is a
peaceful suburb. The long,
straight beach here is pounded
by powerful waves, making it a
good surf spot.
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Map A6
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Botafogo
A sweet white juice made
from a relative of the custard
apple and
caju
.
&
Caju
The juice of the
Amazonian cashew-nut fruit,
which is also famous the
world over for its nuts.
The Sugar Loaf
(see pp12-
13)
sits at the southern end of
this perfectly rounded cove, which
lies between Copacabana and
Centro, at the mouth of the bay. It
was a popular bathing spot until
the 1960s, when pollution made
swimming inadvisable.
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Map S1
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Flamengo
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Jabuticaba
A tart, berry-like fruit juice
popular in the state of Minas
Gerais. The fruit grows directly
on tree trunks.
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Umbu
A sweet fruit juice that
comes from a pulpy berry.
It is particularly popular in
the state of Bahia.
This stretch of pearl-white
sand is the prettiest of all the
Guanabara Bay beaches and
affords wonderful views of the
bay and the Sugar Loaf. The
water is now far too dirty for
swimming and the beach itself
is unsafe after dark.
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Map Y6
)
Seriguela
This refreshing juice
comes from Brazil's woodland
savanna, the
cerrado
.
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