Super Food: Maqui

Super Food: Maqui

Blessed with a stronger concentration of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial compounds than acai, maqui berries are fast becoming the super berry to add to your desserts, breakfasts and smoothies.

The Mapuche Indians of Chile and Argentina have been eating this dark purple for its medicinal and anti-aging benefits for centuries. This tart fruit is rich in vitamin C, calcium, iron, anthocyanins (which give it its colour) and polyphenols; and contains more than three times the antioxidant power of blueberries. In powder form, maqui offers a convenient and potent supplemental nutritional punch that can then easily be added to your juices, smoothies, drinks or breakfast cereals, doubling the nutritive potential of your meal. Dried maqui berries are also excellent sprinkled into granola, trail mix and salads or simply eaten straight out of the bag.

Organic maqui powder and dried maqui berries are available at SuperNature Forum.