Maca is an indispensable food material for Peruvians. Maca is also known as Andean ginseng. According to the record, maca has been 2000 years ago in the natural environment of the Andean plateau began to plant. After the arrival of the Peruvian maca, through the Inca Empire, as the most valuable food materials carefully planted, passed down to this day.

Maca is the only species in the genus Solanum that bears a thick hypocotyl. The hypocotyl fuses with the root to form a rough, inverted pear-shaped tuber. Maca roots vary greatly in shape and size, being triangular, elliptical, or rectangular. The hypocotyl of maca may be golden or yellowish, red, purple, blue, black or green, with black being recognized as the most effective maca.

Black maca from Lijiang is darker in color compared to black maca from Peru. Each plant is considered a unique genetic variety, and special traits (mainly the color of the root) are bred by special artificial selection based on its different nutritional and therapeutic properties.

Extended information:

1, relieve female menopause syndrome

Female menopause syndrome is a necessary symptom for women of a certain age, it is the process of gradual decline of female ovarian function until it disappears completely. The macaene and maca amide in the curry can equalize the hormone secretion of human glands by regulating the pituitary gland, so as to purify the internal environment.

2, antioxidant, anti-aging

People get older, the human body will produce a decline in function, the function of various organs will appear different degrees of decline, this is the normal physiological stage, but the human body is a natural ecosystem.

The root cause is summarized: the human body is controlled by various types of hormones secreted by the glands, hormone secretion is a cause of human aging, so if you can increase hormone secretion by regulating the glands in a timely manner, then the aging can be slowed down, maca contains maca-ene and mocamides have this effect.

3, maca can improve the state of sub-health.

Because of the widespread use of computers, whether it is work or play, in front of the computer time becomes more and more, so most people are really less exercise, and sub-healthy state comes from this.

Generally referred to those weak immunity, weak resistance to disease, this group of people are not sick, but the disease, bacteria and other resistance is very poor, in the climate change, temperature changes in the time will be sick, usually the body will not appear what big problems. Maca is rich in a variety of nutrients, minerals, 20 kinds of amino acids, etc., can ensure the supply of nutrients to the human body at the same time, regulate the environment within the human body, so that people return to a healthy state.

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