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 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 [...]
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 [...]
First off, I love the name Fruitology. It sure sounds like the study of superfruit doesn’t it? Maqui berry boasts one of the highest ORAC ratings of all fruits including the superfruit variety. It will be nice to walk into my neighborhood store and purchase maqui berry superfruit when I feel the need to improve [...]
It is nice to see people quoting actual science from reputable companies like Brunswick Labs. As you can see from this website, we give alot of weight to their maqui berry studies and ORAC scores as an indicator of antioxidant power of this botanical. We will be reporting more about the anthocyanin makeup of the [...]
Maqui Berry, the new superfood with an ORAC value twice as high as Acai Berry, already has a strong following in the US. HealthSpark, the leading UK supplements supplier, is the first to market with a UK manufactured product. The new product is pure freeze dried Patagonian Maqui Berry, and is available in HealthSpark approved [...]