Buy maca root powder online. Peruvian-grown Lepidium meyenii in all three color varieties.
lepidium meyenii — root of the andes
Maca is a cruciferous root vegetable cultivated in the high Peruvian Andes, one of the few food crops that thrives at that altitude. We carry the root harvested, dried, and finely ground — yellow, red, and black — in sizes from 1 oz to 8 oz.
Best selling
the three colors
Yellow, red, and black maca.
most common
Yellow maca
The most abundant variety, making up the majority of every Andean harvest. Mild, earthy, slightly nutty — the classic maca flavor and the usual starting point.
middle harvest
Red maca
Rarer than yellow, with a rose-tinged root and a slightly sweeter, softer taste. Red roots are sorted by hand from the same high-altitude fields.
rarest
Black maca
The scarcest color, only a small fraction of each harvest. Darker root, more assertive, earthier flavor than yellow or red.
about maca
A root vegetable from the roof of the Andes.
Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a member of the brassica family — a cousin of radish and turnip — cultivated for thousands of years on the high plateaus of Peru, at elevations where almost nothing else grows. The root is harvested, sun-dried, and ground into a fine powder.
As a food, the powder has a malty, earthy taste that folds easily into smoothies, oatmeal, coffee, and baking. Traditional Andean preparation cooks the root; our powder is dried and ground root, sold by weight from 1 oz to 8 oz.
All three of our color varieties come from Peruvian growers — yellow for the classic flavor, red and black for the rarer, hand-sorted harvests.
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