Recent research has pointed to the correlation between cancer fighting properties of the high powered antioxidant delphinidin. Delphinidin is one of the main antioxidants found in maqui berry that grows wild in the Patagonia region of Chile. Long used by the Mapuche Indians for its medicinal qualities, maqui berry is now starting to gain recognition [...]
A recent press release states, “Berry aficionados are already aware that berries that are dark red, blue and purple taste great. But what most of these people dont know is that these berries have a unique nutritional profile and contain a range of flavonoids that are known to benefit ones health in numerous ways.” “Among [...]
Image via Wikipedia At Patagonia Maqui Berry Company, we have recently received our NOP/EU Organic status for maqui berry freeze-dried powder. How important is organic status? Lets take a look and find out. Do we need organic certification for Maqui? The question being asked is do we need to have a system in place to [...]
This post is a re-print of the following original article about maqui berry and cancer research. The Mapuche Indians have long used the maqui in ceremonial and medicinal applications. The maqui has recently been discovered by the modern world to be a powerful antioxidant. More scientific information can be found on the website at the Patagonia [...]
The fruit of Aristotelia Chilensis, commonly known as maqui, has been demonstrated to exhibit significantly high antioxidant capacity in vitro, especially for singlet oxygen and peroxyl scavenging, and, therefore, may have possible health benefits. In this study, the antioxidant capacities of freezedried maqui fruit pulp/skin powder (Patagonia Maqui) were evaluated by different assays with various free radical [...]
The fruit of Aristotelia Chilensis, commonly known as maqui, has been demonstrated to exhibit significantly high antioxidant capacity in vitro, especially for superoxide and peroxyl scavenging, and, therefore, may have possible health benefits. Superoxide is biologically quite toxic and is deployed by the immune system to kill invading microorganisms. In this study, the antioxidant capacities [...]
The fruit of Aristotelia Chilensis, commonly known as maqui berry or Chilean Wineberry, has been demonstrated to exhibit significant high antioxidant capacity in vitro against peroxynitrite aka NORAC. In this study, the antioxidant capacities of freeze dried whole maqui berry were evaluated by Brunswick Labs using their patented new Total ORAC assay. Total ORAC not [...]
This is the second in a series of articles which explains the antioxidant dynamics of ORAC and more importantly Total ORAC and the maqui berry. Patagonia Maqui has gone to great lengths to substantiate scientific claims of the maqui. As part of this discovery process, we hired Brunswick Labs to conduct not only ORAC testing [...]
In this blog post, we will attempt to explain the nature between the Patagonia Maqui Berry and the antioxidant rating concept known as ORAC. ORAC is an abbreviation that stands for “oxygen radical absorbsion capacity”. The ORAC assay (test) has been the widely accepted standard in which to measure the antioxidant capacity of fruits and [...]
We hope to explain some of the common differences between anthocyanins and anthocyanidins in this brief tutorial. Maqui is a rich source of anthocyanidins. If you are relatively new to the nutraceutical arena like me, then it is very easy to get confused with the differences between antioxidants, polyphenols, anthocyanins and anthocyanidins to name a [...]