Our mission: to find the world's best acai energy drink.

There's a fruit called acai berry that's been in the news lately for its health benefits, and because Oprah likes it. The acai berry comes from a plant called the acai palm, from which we get hearts of palm, which you may have eaten in an expensive salad.

"Acai been berry, berry good to me"

The berry from the tree is even more rare: a small, round, black-purple fruit that is reputed to have a number of health benefits -- including weight loss, learning and memory retention, and increased energy.

We recently got a bottle of this Mistica Brazilian Acai here at ZUG headquarters, so we could try it ourselves. Acai has a dark berry taste, perhaps a cross between a cherry and a pomegranate. It's mildly sweet, with a red wine finish. We thought about shotgunning the entire bottle, then had a better idea...

Hold a contest for ZUG readers to invent the world's best Acai Berry Energy Drink.

We offered a $250.00 prize to the recipe that scored the highest on three criteria:

1) Health benefits. We allowed any fruits, vegetables, or supplements, as long as they could be easily found at a grocery or health food store. We wanted a drink that anyone could easily make at home.

2) Taste. We broke out the blender in the ZUG test kitchen, where our panel of three judges tried each recipe, rating them in terms of drinkability and lack of gag factor. We wanted a drink that tasted good.

3) Funny name. All recipes also needed to come with a funny name, preferably including the word "acai" (pronounced "asa-EE"). Hey, we're a comedy site.

From the delicious to the demonic, here's what we tasted.