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| - Most Acai Bowl places sell you the illusion of health. They advertise, fresh, wholesome, etc, but their ingredients are all-conventional and therefore loaded with toxic pesticides. Berry Divine started with the promise of being different - that is all-organic and that's why I instantly loved them when they appeared in Sedona a few years ago.
In fact, the promise of all-organic is still on their website : "Our promise is to always provide the purest Açaí and freshest all-organic fruit."
When I ate there today, I noticed that their bowls are now all conventional by default. Only somewhere in a corner, and easy to miss, does it say that you can get 100% organic, at an unspecified surcharge. That's just wrong. What they're doing is trying to trick you into thinking you're buying organic, and accepting the high prices that go along with it, and then giving you conventional, which has only a fraction of the ingredient cost.
Another problem I have with that new philosophy is that organic is a matter of trust. You're paying a lot more money for it, and you can never know for certain that you're actually getting organic. This is especially true in a restaurant. I trust restaurants that are all-organic, but I can't trust a place that tries to deceive me and sell me conventional as organic.
I'm really disappointed and I don't think I'll be eating at Berry Divine anymore.
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