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Maqui berries growing on a maqui bush.

Maqui Berry is fast becoming a new flavor in the beverage world as Honest Tea rolls out their Passion Fruit Green Tea with Maqui Berry. The combination of these two flavors along with the new sugar substitute Stevia makes this product bold, innovative and cutting edge. The combination of antioxidants from this maqui blend makes it one of the beverage world’s most unique at this stage of antioxidant awareness in the marketplace as well as its acceptance as a long term health benefits that reduces age related diseases. The fact that you can now buy Maqui Berry in the form of a tea blend once again reinforces the flavor and health benefit acceptance into the marketplace of the beverage industry. At Patagonia Maqui Company, we are happy to see this progression into the marketplace and expect more and more maqui innovations, flavors, blends as well as overall additive to the food ingredients industry.

MAQUI Story:

Maqui Berries grows in the Patagonia region of the most famous region of Chile, the Patagonia. The  Patagonia offers all the dramatic landscape one would expect from the world’s ultimate land’s end. Here the South American continent falls away in a dazzling explosion of islands, glaciers, icebergs and mountains. It is truly one of Mother Nature’s grand finales.

The Mapuches Indians, native to this rugged landscape are champions of survival. They are one of the few tribes who have survived almost totally unchanged in their traditions. One of their traditions is the Maqui. Maqui is a small black to purple berry growing the mountains of the Patagonian region.

Maqui berries have nearly twice the antioxidant value as that of Acai. However Maqui lacks the omega oils that are so rich in the Acai. Maqui is being compared to Brazilian Acai juice because of its antioxidant capacity and even though they both are rich in anthocyanins neither one is better than the other. The savvy consumer will see the benefits of both and look to take advantage of both.

ACAI vs. Maqui Berry (Total ORAC)

MAQUI Science:

Maqui Berries contain a unique blend of polyphenols and are rich in antioxidant power.

Patagonia Maqui has taken the time and money to scientifically research maqui berries in coordination with some of the food industries leading research groups including Brunswick Labs, Bell Advisory Services (now Bell Ventures) & Texas A&M Horticultural Science Facilities. As such, we have conducted multiple research studies on the maqui berry including Total ORAC, Glycation Inhibition, ORAC and lipid tests on the maqui seeds, and advanced broad spectrum chromatography tests to identify polyphenol compounds.

Aristotelia Chilensis (Maqui or Chilean Wineberry)  is a species of the Elaeocarpaceae family that grows wild in Chile and Argentina. The Maqui bush which reaches a height of up to 4m-5m (12-15 feet) and has dark green leaves that grow opposite and oval. The flowers are unisexual, green colored and large. The purple maqui berry fruits are 4 to 6 mm in diameter (smaller than a blueberry), and contain 4 to 8 angular seeds. There is also a white variety of the maqui berry which grows in the Patagonia region in far less volumes than its purple counterpart.

KNOWN ANTHOCYANIDINS: (Delfinidin-3-sambubioside-5-glucoside), (Delfinidin 3,5-diglucoside), (Cyanidin 3-sambubioside-5-glucoside), (Cyanidin 3, 5-diglucoside), (Delphinidin 3-sambubioside), (Delphinidin 3-glucoside), (Cyanidin 3-sambubioside), (Cyanidin 3-glucoside)

For more information and/or to buy Maqui Berry direct from the manufacturer, call us at 214-717-4914 or visit us online at www.patagoniamaqui.com.