Healthy Raw Food Recipes : Health Benefits of Maca or Peruvian Ginseng Raw Foods

Learn about the health benefits of maca, aka Peruvian ginseng, in this free instructional video on raw food cooking and recipes.

Expert: Rachel Karr
Contact: www.greathealinggetways.com
Bio: Rachel Karr is a raw food chef at Cru Restaurant in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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[Platewarp]

Maca powder is good stuff for sure.

[AK47ENT]

thats cuz abyssquick is a salesmen or women.

[abyssquick]

The "freeze dried juice" is probably the best "raw" maca product if people insist on taking it "raw" - but bear in mind all raw maca has loads of goitrogens.

Getting people to eat raw maca flour is disingenuous marketing - companies which advocate this are making huge profit margins off a cheap provincial baking ingredent.

[abyssquick]

"Gelatinized" maca is the type intended for therapeutic use. It is the type used in most clinical studies, and was developed specifically to address maca's very dense fiber matrix (quite difficult to digest). "Raw" maca flours also contain lots of goitrogens, which can actually interfere with hormones negatively.

Always use cooked maca (gelitinized, toasted). If you use the raw flour (powder), you should cook/bake with it. Only eat it raw if you respond well to it - many people do not.

[abyssquick]

It's important to get pre-cooked maca. In Peru, maca is always cooked, it is never eaten raw. Maca is usually toased and ground to make powder for those energy shakes you get in major cities.

Only companies in the USA try to market the raw powder (flour) as "eaten raw" - that's because they pay $3/kg and mark it up to $50/kg.

Raw maca flour (harina de maca) is baking flour. It is foor breads, cakes, etc, not for "therapeutic use."

[apatte4975]

thanks

[abyssquick]

Maca makes some people hungry. It does a good job of regulating hormones in most people.

Use gelatinized macas unless you have a good strong digestive system. The raw stuff has lots of goitrogens (cruciferous vegetable). Gelatinized is stronger, more versatile, and has no goitrogens.

"Peruvian ginseng" is a comparative marketing term, not a legitimate term for the plant. It's effects are different than ginseng. Maca = lepidium peruvianum.

[biomaca]

wikipedia (dot)org

[iquix]

wow!

where can i get it?

[Cselestyna]

wow that girl is a great sale person. lol, i learned more from this video in 30 secs than i did on the internet