About
This delicious, healthy blend of maca and hojicha is your childhood favourite, chocolate milk, all grown up. It's the closest you'll get to that flavour without any actual chocolate.
Recommendations:
We highly recommend expressing this in an oat milk latte, hot or iced. Trust the experts. Thank us later.
Ingredients
Organic hojicha, organic maca powder
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More on Maca
Latin name: Lepidium meyenii
Maca, sometimes called ‘Peruvian ginseng’, is a native plant of the Andean highlands, growing mostly at altitudes over 4000m above sea level. In recent years, maca achieved super-stardom in North America, boosted by reviews from influencers like David Asprey (Hack your Sex Drive with Maca Root | ) and Men’s Health Magazine (Can Maca Powder Boost Your Energy and Sex Drive? Here's What You Should Know
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Why should you include it in your diet? Quoting Health Canada on benefits that have been solidly established:
- Source of/Provides antioxidants.
- Helps to support emotional aspects of sexual health.
- Helps to support healthy mood balance during menopause.
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And for scholarly geeks, we recommend the following articles:
- Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology of Lepidium meyenii (Maca), a Plant from the Peruvian Highlands
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Hormone-Balancing Effect of Pre-Gelatinized Organic Maca (Lepidium peruvianum Chacon): (I) Biochemical and Pharmacodynamic Study on Maca using Clinical Laboratory Model on Ovariectomized Rats
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Preservation of Cognitive Function by Lepidium meyenii (Maca) Is Associated with Improvement of Mitochondrial Activity and Upregulation of Autophagy-Related Proteins in Middle-Aged Mouse Cortex
