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  • Published on April 09, 2025
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Balancing Nutrition, Mental Health and Exercise

In Juliana Gonzalez’s new dance class at Rees Elementary School, students sit, twirl, jerk, and strike poses, their jagged movements reflected in the floor-to-ceiling mirror in front of them.

With buzzwords like “adaptogens” and more sources of antioxidants and protein than you ever knew existed floating around, it can be hard to keep it all straight.

What if you had a clear-cut, skimmable glossary to help you figure out what exactly you’re looking for and consuming? Good news—we made one!

Is it evidence-based?

Along with definitions, we’ve also included a quick guide to let you know whether each ingredient is evidence-based—in other words, it does what all the buzz says it does.


We’ve noted where the evidence is confirmed, mixed, emerging, or limited in scope, as well as when a specific additive is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Acai

Evidence-based: Nutritional value is confirmed. Research on additional benefits in emerging. Acai berries are native to Central and South America. People generally describe the taste of acai berries as a mix of blackberries and unsweetened chocolate. Hailed a Brazilian superfruit, acai berries get their deep purple color from anthocyanins, antioxidants that are also concentrated in blueberries. It comes in multiple forms, like powders, juice, supplements, and whole berries.


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