What Ethnicity Is an Acai Bowl? Tracing Its Brazilian Roots
                                
                                
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                                Native to the Amazon rainforest, the acai berry has been a vital food source for indigenous Brazilians for centuries. The modern acai bowl, however, is a more recent culinary innovation with distinctly Brazilian city roots, rather than an ethnicity, a term applied to people, not food.