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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Marcus Sims and Patagonia Maqui Company are getting ready for the Supplyside East food ingredients show next week, April 26-28, 2010. Maqui berry comes from the Patagonia regions of Chile and Argentina. This antioxidant rich berry has been used by Mapuche Indians in Chile for hundreds of years for ceremonial and medicinal purposes. Maqui is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the many benefits to living in the Patagonia region of Chile is eating fresh maqui berries every summer season from January through March. In fact, the Mapuche Indians have been eating them for hundreds of years for a variety of medicinal purposes. Maqui thrives in the Patagonia region and is a wild harvested berry [...]