{"id":284,"date":"2008-08-13T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:20:40","slug":"brazilian-fruit-series-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazilian-fruit-series-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Fruit Series: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this new series, we&#8217;re going to discuss different types of fruit that are native to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>cupua\u00e7u<\/b> fruit is native to the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, and is a cousin of the cacau plant. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon have eaten the fruit for generations, and its juice has been used to induce labor and to help abdominal pain.<\/p>\n<p>The large, brown fruit grows from dark red flowers on the branches of the tree, and when ripe, develops a hard, brown shell with a soft, gooey interior. The fruit can grow up to 25 centimeters long<\/p>\n<p>It is used to make juices, smoothies, ice cream, mousse, jelly, and filling for chocolates. The <b>bombom de cupua\u00e7u<\/b> is a popular chocolate treat sold throughout Brazil<\/p>\n<p>The cupua\u00e7u was at the heart of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdl.org.br\/article\/view\/1623\">biopiracy debate<\/a> in 2004 when the Brazilian government and Brazilian non-profit organizations forbid the Japanese company Asahi from owning the patent for the name &#8220;cupua\u00e7u&#8221; in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this new series, we&#8217;re going to discuss different types of fruit that are native to Brazil. The cupua\u00e7u fruit is native to the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, and is a cousin of the cacau plant. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon have eaten the fruit for generations, and its juice has been used to induce labor&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazilian-fruit-series-part-i\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2046],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cupuacu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}