Maqui Berries 101

There are hundreds of different types of popular foods that people push as miracle 
foods for your health, but there are a much smaller number of foods that usually seem 
to go relatively unnoticed. If you’ve never heard of the maqui berry, that’s probably 
because it’s a somewhat rare fruit from south America. For hundreds of years, the 
Mapuche people have used the berry for it’s amazing effects. Today, maqui berries are 
also sold in other forms like pills and powders for use as supplements. The following 
article will be exploring some of the ways it can help people. 

The maqui berry is extremely high in antioxidants called anthocyanins, which means 
that it can be very beneficial to consume. Antioxidants can help you to stay young, 
protect from cancer, and can relieve certain types of stresses on the body, which allows 
it to heal. It even can protect you on a cellular level, because it protects the body from 
damage to DNA, which is essential because your body needs to be able to read correct 
DNA information to know how to build your newly created cells properly. Poorly built 
cells lead to premature aging and skin disorders. 

How to Use Maqui 

This wonderful fruit can be used in a variety of ways. You can add maqui to your 
smoothies to beef up on the antioxidant power of your breakfast, or you can choose to 
buy it in a powdered form so you can add it to all sorts of blended delights like breakfast 
cereals and meal replacement shakes. If you want to get extra ambitious, you can even 
use it to sweeten certain sauces without changing the flavor majorly. One things can be 
for certain is that you will be doing yourself a huge favor by making maqui part of your 
diet.  

You will get a more detailed explanation of ways to use maqui berry below.

Small Concerns

While maqui is entirely natural and there are very few things that can be done to make it 
dangerous, it should be noted that taking maqui with certain types of medications like 
diabetes medications can lower your blood sugar to the point where the body could 
experience some ill effects. It would be best to consult a medical professional about 
maqui, and have them monitor your reactions and changes in your blood. A small 
amount of preparation and care will make sure that your experience with maqui stay 
safe and beneficial. 

1. Health Benefits of Maqui Berry

You’ve probably heard the term, superfood thrown around in large amounts over the 
last decade or so. People everywhere are looking for a magic bullet, or a magic cure 
that they can ingest that will bring them health, and prosperity, but do food like that 
really exist? Science has shown people that while these superfoods can’t cure 
everything instantly, they do possess unique and powerful benefits that can save lives, 
fend off disease, or give you relief from the troublesome symptoms of a lifelong 
disorder. The next few paragraphs will be exploring the health benefits of maqui berry. 

Blood Sugar Control

For people who suffer from diabetes, controlling the blood sugar is a serious and 
important issue.  When people eat some foods, they can cause the blood sugar levels 
to rise or fall very rapidly. These major and sudden changes can contribute heavily to 
damage and stress on various organs of the body. These sudden changes can also 
affect the brain, and cause different types of malfunctions that can cause coma, or even 
death. Maqui berries help the body to stabilize these changes and make sure that they 
are more gradual and controlled. 

It Fights Inflammation

Swelling or inflammation of the organs, muscles, or joints can be a major issue for many 
people. There are a surprising number of illnesses that stem from inflammation, or are 
exacerbated by inflammation, so it stands to reason that making efforts to reduce 
inflammation can take the teeth away from some conditions. Maqui berry is a very 
powerful antioxidant. In the past, indigenous people used it to reduce swelling and 
soothe conditions like arthritis effects and symptoms related to inflammation.  

Lowers Cholesterol 

Cholesterol is really a more specific term for the fat that floats freely in the blood stream. 
This cholesterol is made up of whatever kind of fats that you’ve been ingesting. When 
there is a heavy concentration of bad fats in the bloodstream, this can cause blockages 
that leads to serious events like strokes of heart attacks. Maqui berry and other berries 
like it have the ability to attract and carry these fats away to disposal sites in the body 
through the lymph system. When this type of fat is banned from the body, arteries are 
free to function more efficiently, which ensures that organs like the heart and brains will 
be fed appropriately with nutrients. 

2. 3 Forms of Maqui Berry

The maqui berry is one of the newest in the recently discovered south American fruits. 
Due to research over the last few years, science has been able to establish the 
nutritional and even medicinal value of those mysterious fruit, with it now rivaling the 
discovery of previous superfruit known as acai. As the demand for maqui grows, 
innovations in how maqui is taken or added to food has changed massively. These new 
forms of maqui contribute heavily to the convenience of use, and the versatility of 
maqui, so the purpose of this article will be discussing the form in some detail. 

Pill Supplement 

It’s quite possible that the pill form is the most common and easily applied of the forms 
of maqui, especially because people have become accustomed to encountering pill 
supplements on a daily basis. This form is relatively self-explanatory, because taking a 
pill requires no effort at all unless obtain water is an issue in your area. Pill can be 
ordered online, and may be found in specialty stores on most areas. Price and content 
may vary, as supplements aren’t as heavily regulated, so you need to do some research 
to make sure that you have something that is an authentic and safe product. 

Powder

One very popular way to add some nutritional value is often in the powder form. Protein 
and nutrition shakes have employed the powder delivery system for several decades 
and remains a part of the popular consciousness. This can be a great option for people 
who would like to mix the maqui berry with other fruits and don’t have access to the 
fresh fruit. This make it accessible while keeping the company and consumer from 
experiencing the loss that would be inherent in trying to ship large amount of the fresh 
version of the fruit across water or land. 

Extract

Another old world and consistently reliable way to add some benefits to your food and 
drinks is through extracts. Extracts typically have a much longer shelf life and retain 
potency. They require smaller dosages and can bring massive amounts of health 
benefits to a variety of foods in many different ways, and all you need to do is open the 
container and pour it into whatever you are planning to ingest that day. The only thing is 
that heating can something degrade quality and potency so it is better to put it into raw 
foods. 

3. Ways to Use Maqui Berry

Maqui berry is a very old superfood that has been used for hundreds of years in 
ceremony, and to promote health. With the leaps and bounds made by modern science, 
we can now see the true benefit of these wonderful fruits from nature. Traditionally, 
most people will simply eat these fruits, but as time marches on, enterprising people 
have begun to engineer lots of ingenious ways to avail themselves of the richness in 
health that these berries provide. The next few paragraphs will be exploring a few ways 
to use maqui berries. 

Eating It

One of the best ways to get the benefits from a fruit is to simply eat it. This is usually the 
case because a whole fruit is likely to contain many of its best attributes when it’s eaten 
in total, including the skin and flesh. You can always make yourself a nice fruit salad 
and eat it with a spoon. Fruit salads are great and give you a fresh way to eat a group of 
awesome fruit together. It’s also never a bad idea to sneak some mild veggies into the 
mix, so if you want to really make it easy you can toss some awesome arrangement of 
healthy stuff into a blender with the maqui and you’ll have a power packed smoothie. 

Juicing It

Juicing has become a very popular way to eat the plant based foods that people eat. It 
gives a lot of people faster access to the benefits of their favorite fruits and vegetables, 
and can soften the distaste for certain vegetables. The only issue with juicing is that it’s 
very likely to waste some important parts of the vegetables and leave you with only a 
portion of the most beneficial 
Vitamins, so you may still have to use supplemental additions to your juice to make up 
for what was lost. 

Pill Forms 

In this modern day, many drugs and supplements now come in a pill form that can be 
taken very easily in nearly any situation. Pill forms of maqui berry can be found 
available in online stores, and you can choose from a wide variety of pills to suit your 
needs. Just be sure to do your due diligence to protect yourself from companies that 
use lots of fillers instead of the proper product. Look for certified organic products 
because they are more likely to be the real stuff. 

4. Maqui VS Acai Berry

Sometime in the late 1990s, a berry of exotic distinction became a buzzword that 
caused a paradigm shift in the world of superfruits. Acai was suddenly the forefront as 
the most popular juice in the market at the time, and its distribution made it a staple in 
households around the world, but nearly thirty years later, how does acai stack up 
against the newly discovered maqui berry? If you continue reading the next few 
paragraphs, you’ll find some information about these two formidable fruits and a very 
basic comparison of how they stack up against each other in terms of usefulness. 

Nutrition Content 

In terms of nutrition, the acai berry and maqui are in the same family and therefore 
share many of the nutritional aspects of each other, yet maqui does have a few minerals 
in greater supply such as iron, potassium, and calcium, making it great for the repair of 
many of the major systems of the body.  Both fruits contain large portions of C and A, 
but acai has A higher amount of vitamin E, which could be considered to be one of the 
primary building blocks needed for skin vitality and elasticity of various tissues. 

Antioxidants 

Both Acai and maqui fruit are heavy on antioxidants which are great for fighting the 
different types of oxidative stress that are placed upon the body during daily life. This 
could even help to slow the effects of aging in some ways. One of the primary things 
that antioxidants are known for though, are their abilities to fight cellular problems and 
cancer by eliminating free radicals that cause damage to the DNA information stored in 
your cells. Those unforeseen mutations often manifest in disease and other problems. 

Accessibility 

One of the main reasons for the outrageous success of acai early on, was its 
accessibility. When it was introduced through marketing efforts, the proper channels for 
distribution were firmly in place, making it an easy sell to the public, and placed it 
directly into the hands of the consumers who were ready to welcome this new flavor 
with eager and open arms.

Today, the maqui berry is on the scene with a little bit more to offer, but the main 
challenge of maqui will be the limited amount of sources for the fruit, and until it reaches 
the accessibility of acai, it will remain a specialty fruit that is harder to find. 

