100% Natural Organic Maca Root Extract Black Maca Extract Powder

Natural maca root extract powder is a kind of natural food. The botanist and medical experts long-term study found that Maca root extract contains 4 kinds of alkaloids and glucosinolates, vitamins such as protein, amino acids, polysaccharides, minerals and a variety of natural plant active ingredients.

Maca is typically dried to a powder or flour and used as a root vegetable or in traditional medicine. Its Spanish and Quechua names include Maca-maca, Maino, Ayak Chichira, and Ayak Willku. The major Maca cultivating provinces of China is Yunnan, Xizang, Xinjiang etc.

The average composition is 60-75% carbohydrates, 10-14% protein, 8.5% dietary fiber, and 2.2% fats. Maca is rich in the dietary minerals calcium and potassium (with low content of sodium), and contains the essential trace elements iron, iodine, copper, manganese, and zinc, as well as fatty acids including linolenic acid, palmitic acid, and oleic acids, and 19 amino acids.

Maca powder is a relatively inexpensive bulk commodity, much like wheat flour or potato flour. The supplement industry uses both the dry roots and maca flour for different types of processing and concentrated extracts.