瑪卡是秘魯安地斯山脈的超級食物，此產品由馬卡根磨成粉，有助消除疲勞和緊張，並幫助穩定血糖與膽固醇，保護細胞和心血管健康。

成份：有機原生瑪卡粉

出產地：秘魯

建議食用方法：每日1-1.5茶匙（3-5克），可混入水、咖啡、朱古力或果仁飲料等，亦可加入smoothie、布緯食療的鮮芝士與冷榨亞麻籽油組合，或燕麥小米粥等穀物早餐。製作甜品麵包或烘焙食物時可隨意加入馬卡粉增加營養和美味。若能與玉桂粉或原生可可粉同時食用會有更大協同效應。瑪卡粉不含咖啡因沒有刺激性，早晚都可以食用。

營養參考資料：瑪卡有被譽為秘魯人參，和印度人參一樣屬「適應原」(adaptogen) ，特性是並不針對個別器官而整體性地增強身體應付壓力、創傷、焦慮和疲勞的能力，有持久的扶正作用，對所有身體機能都有活化平衡的效益。

瑪卡富含鈣、磷、鎂、鉀、鋅、錳和鐡質；維他命B1、B2、C、B3；纖維素和木酚素；轉化為奧米加三脂肪酸的亞麻酸和含奧米加九的亞油酸；並提升體內抗氧化物質如谷胱甘太和抗氧化酵素SOD (肝蛋白)的正常活動。瑪卡的含鈣量比相等份量的牛奶更高。

Maca is a precious superfood grown in the Peruvian Andean mountains.  Maca powder is made from grinding maca roots.  It has a distinguishing strong flavour, almost like a peanut butter taste, is easy to digest and absorb, can boost energy, calm nerves, stabilise blood sugar and cholesterol, and protect heart and blood vessel health.

Ingredients: Organic Maca Powder

Origin: Peru

Use suggestions: 1-1.5 teaspoon a day (3-5g).  Can mix with water and stir to drink, or mix in coffee, hot chocolate, nut milks, smoothies, or add to the fresh cheese and flaxseed oil combination of Budwig Diet, or to oatmeal, millet porridge and other cereals, or use in the making of desserts, bread and all baked products.  Best taken together with cinnamon powder or cocoa powder for synergistic effects.  Maca powder does not contain any caffeine and can be taken day or night. 

Nutrition pointers:  Some have called maca root the "Peruvian ginseng".  Like ginseng and ashwaghanda, it is an "adaptogen" that, instead of targeting any particular organ, it provides energy and beneficial effects to the whole system, helping the body to fight or adapt to stresses, anxieties and fatigue.  
 
Maca root is rich is calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, potassium, zinc, manganese and iron; Vitamins B1, B2, C, B3; insoluble fibres and lignin; and linolenic acid and oleic acids. Its calcium amount is higher than in a comparable quantity of milk.  And it is found to boost glutathione effect and also activity of the crucial enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) in blood and liver.