E. oleracea, as the most widely distributed species in Amazon, is also the most intensively researched and the highly commercialized species of genus Euterpe. The fruit of E. oleracea, also known as Açaí berry, has received considerable attention worldwide as it exhibited extraordinary antioxidant power in the researches reported, and therefore was regarded as a "super fruit". E. oleracea is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients, as well as a high concentration of bioactive phenolic compounds, such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, anthocyanins, and proanthocyanidins. Among all these nutrients and bioactive compounds, total fatty acids, linoleic acid, ferulic acid, quercetin, protocatechuic acid, and protocatechuic acid Me ester were reported to have skin whitening effects. In vitro and in vivo experiments on E. oleracea have found that its pulp extracts exhibit potential skin whitening effects such as tyrosinase inhibiting activity and protecting skin cells against oxidative stress caused by UV irradiation For future studies, it is recommended that the skin-whitening ingredients of Euterpe oleracea could be further excavated, and the whitening efficacy is encouraged to be verified through further animal experiments and clin. trials.