Jan 4th, 2017
Move Over Acai. Here Comes the Maqui Berry
There’s a new super food coming to juice cleanses near you. It’s called the maqui berry. Like its predecessors, the maqui berry has ridiculous amounts of antioxidants and lots of accompanying claims about its body-healing properties. It’s been farmed for centuries by the Mapuche Indians in southern Chile and is now naturally being commercialized and hawked all over the world. Ashlee Vance, the host of Hello World, took a recent trip to the wine country outside of Santiago to see how the maqui berry is being processed by SouthAm Freeze Dry – a local company that specializes in, you guessed it, freeze drying and exporting fruits and vegetables. (Source: Bloomberg)
