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Peru, Superfoods Territory

By Steve Wynne-Jones
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Peru, Superfoods Territory

Peru offers a range of nutritional products with excellent properties and exquisite taste. An inexhaustible larder of fruits, grains, vegetables, roots and fishes; exceptional for the body’s wellness.

Super Fruits: Peru’s native fruits have tasty exotic flavours and are ideal for diets rich in vitamins and antioxidants. The goldenberry, camu camu, cherimoya, and lucuma are found to prevent diseases.

Super Vegetables: Peru produces vegetables that meet the highest quality requirements of the international markets, including white and green asparagus,  as well as conserved artichoke, red pepper and paprika.

Super Grains: Peruvian quinoa, cañihua, sacha inchi, white giant corn are recognized because of their exceptional balance of proteins, fat, as well as their high amount of essential amino acids and nutraceutical properties.

Super Herbs: Herbs like muña and cat’s claw are used since pre-Columbian times and they have become the center of attention because of their medicinal virtues capable of treating complex diseases, from old age disorders to cancer.

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Super Roots: Foodstuff from Peru like mesquite, maca, purple corn, and yacon are source of proteins, carbs and amino acids.

Super Fish: Seafood has been a fundamental part of peruvian customary diet with high standards of quality and wide variety of fish.

Discover more at www.peru.info/en-us/superfoods

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