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It is a plant of medium size that grows in the south of Chile. Maqui has been used for a long time by the Mapuches as a natural remedy. Maqui has powerful antioxidant properties, which have lead that many countries are interested in Maqui.
At the moment, it is consider as a powerful food because it counts on many benefits for our organism. The Araucana community was already consuming Maqui before the arrival of the Spaniards. The naturalist and French historian who arrived to Chile, Claudio Gay, Indicates in its Atlas writings “of Physical and Political History of Chile”, of 1844, that the Mapuches used to use it to make flesh.
Nowadays, Maqui is used to make juice and jams, and even to prepare curantos, with the use of leaves of the plant to cover the food of the curanto. These leaves are shining when Maqui springs and it can be eaten without problem in salads and others plates. The fruit has a black color and it has a sweet flavor. The major consumers are people who live in rural areas. However, over time it has been expanding to the cities. When Maqui is consumed, it dyes the mouth of violet color. Which it is a particular characteristic of Maqui. The farming of Maqui extends from IV the region of Coquimbo, to the X region of the Lagos.
In 80 years ' sla “Dr. In Sciences Biology and Magister in Pharmacy of the University of Conception, Marcia Avello”. She did studies that gave the initial kick to the boom of the rosehip in the cosmetic industry.
Validating the regenerative faculties of rosehip according to the beliefs of the Chilean popular medicine becoming known. The fruit is the source of youth within the natural cosmetic nutrition. Rosehip, a small wild reddish small ball and oval fruit mainly used as a medical plant exported from Chile in husk format of dehydrated rosehip to nutritional, nutritional and cosmetic industries of markets like Canada, the United States; Europe, Latin America and also to Japan, China, Indonesia and Malaysia. Being most often costumers.
The bilberry or blueberry is a small fruit of bluish black color but bigger on size than the common bilberries (measuring between 6.5 to 12.5 millimeters of diameter). It is one of the commercial fruit trees more recently domesticated. On the past season, Chile has exported 111 tons of bilberries (blueberry and cranberry) to different destinies from the world, mainly to the USA, China, Japan and South Korea.
The consumption of blueberry has been recommended for any type of people. The blueberry fruit is low in calories, contains good source of fiber, vitamin A and C. It is also high in potassium, manganese, iron and antioxidants.