Super-excited about super food

By STU CLAMPITT
news@readthereporter.com

As soon as The Hamilton County Reporter learned that Monday, April 6 is National Açaí Bowl Day, we reached out to Pure Green, 8594 E. 116th St., Fishers, to find out what that business is doing to mark the occasion and how Fishers has treated a new business focused on healthy eating.

Fishers Pure Green Owner Chasten Harmon held a ribbon cutting for her store on Oct. 16, 2025, which you can read about at this link.

Almost six months later, Harmon has seen great success with her store and told The Reporter Fishers has been very welcoming.

“It’s been pretty great,” Harmon said. “We have had consistent growth all throughout the winter, which has been really nice because winter is a tough time for restaurants – and smoothies specifically. We are very happy with how things have been going for the first six months, definitely. We just had our best performing month this past March, so we’re really excited to head into spring.”

Pure Green is a family business for Harmon, who owns the store with her sister, brother-in-law, and both her parents. When not in the store taking care of customers, Harmon can be found throughout the city helping local organizations and spreading the word about healthy eating.

“We’ve done countless amounts of community events all over Fishers in the past six months,” Harmon said. “I’m definitely making my way through the ZIP codes for sure. We’ve probably done 40 to 50 different events in the past six months. We’ve done work with a couple local nonprofits. We did a partnership all winter with the Fishers Youth Initiative. We did a coloring sheet collaboration with the Fishers Art Center. We’ve got a partnership with Indy Ignite. We’re literally just making our way around town trying to make a lot of noise and let people know that we’re here and we’re a healthy option. It’s definitely been fun.”

On Monday, April 6, Harmon will be in the store helping the entire Pure Green corporation promote National Açaí Bowl Day.

“We’re celebrating it together company-wide, so I know that they’ll be doing their own kind of Açaí Day, but in our store, we’re going to be doing buy one, get one free for açaí bowls,” Harmon said. “I mean, I literally am, at this point in time, obsessed with açaí. The more I learn about it, the more I love it. So I’m excited about National Açaí Day because me and açaí, we’ve gotten very close in the past six months.”

Harmon described açaí as being like a blueberry, but smaller, packed with more antioxidants, and with less sugar.

“It’s something you can literally eat every day for health benefits because it’s high in antioxidants, it’s low sugar, it’s good for heart health, brain health, and it’s really, really great for keeping the digestive system moving and regular,” Harmon said.

Harmon told The Reporter that Pure Green’s açaí offerings are different than you will find if you go to other companies. Pure Green uses an organic açaí that arrives at her store pre-frozen, pureed, and prepared in individual packages.

“It’s super low in sugar and it’s organic,” Harmon said. “Then we take these packages and we literally just blend them with açaí or coconut water, and a piece or two of strawberry or banana. That’s it for our bases, which I think is why a lot of people come to us as opposed to other stores. Other stores are putting maybe half a pack of açaí, and the rest is frozen fruit. You’re not even getting the full serving of açaí.”

At Pure Green, you will get two packs of açaí and nothing else other than a few pieces of banana, for instance.

“Ours is the purest açaí that you can get,” Harmon said. “At other stores it is going to be diluted with fruits. And in some other stores it’s going to be even worse, which is the scoopable sorbet açaí that has sugars, gums, fillers, preservatives. It’s filled with so much stuff the ingredient list is a paragraph long. I think a lot of people come to taste our açaí bowls because it’s the most açaí and the purest açaí that you can get in town. And I love açaí bowls. I’m a patron of all the smoothie shops that don’t have the sorbet, and I prefer ours just because the açaí ratio is the highest.”

If you prefer a smoothie to a bowl, Pure Green has you covered.

“I recommend the Blue Banana if you’re going to try a smoothie,” Harmon said. “We also do have a mocha cold brew smoothie if you want your caffeine fix, but the Blue Banana is our best seller by far. It’s literally just bananas, almond milk, cashew butter, coconut butter, blue spirulina, and a little bit of açaí. That blue spirulina doesn’t really have a taste, but it’s so good for you. And there’s something about whatever taste it does have that just makes this smoothie amazing. I love to watch people take their first sips because they’re always like, ‘Ooh, that’s good!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I know.’”

With the buy one, get one free option, you should bring a friend when you stop by Pure Green, 8594 E. 116th St., Fishers, to celebrate National Açaí Bowl Day.

Either that, or just get two bowls for yourself because you deserve a little extra.