Juice

One of the great pleasure of Brazil is fresh juice. Restaurants, always serve fresh juice - no boxed juices on offer - and there are many specialised juice bars that only sell snacks and juices. And there is an amazing variety of juices (and I guess some juices qualify more as smoothies) on offer. Apart from the obligatory orange (Brazil is the world's largest producer of orange juice), the other common juices are pineapple and mango. But most places also offer lemon (as lemonade), paw paw and granadilla. There are also a number of more local fruits on offer (from the Amazon region for example) while the two most interesting options are definitely Avocado (which is served as a smoothie really) and açaí (pronounced a-saa-ee) - which is a berry like fruit from the Amazon (looks a bit like blackberries imo), which is blended with some other fruits (usually banana and/or mango) with ice (to make it like a sorbet) and then usually eaten with granola.