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Maca 50 gram: milled Andean root in a plain bag Maca (Lepidium meyenii, also listed as Lepidium peruvianum) belongs to the brassica family, which makes it a relative of mustard, garden cress and radish. It grows in the highlands of the Peruvian Andes at altitudes approaching four thousand metres, where few other crops still manage. The part people eat is not an ordinary root but a swollen hypocotyl fused with the taproot: a tuber whose colour runs from cream-yellow, by far the most widely grown...
Maca 50 gram: milled Andean root in a plain bag Maca (Lepidium meyenii, also listed as Lepidium peruvianum) belongs to the brassica family, which makes it a relative of mustard, garden cress and radish. It grows in the highlands of the Peruvian Andes at altitudes approaching four thousand metres, where few other crops still manage. The part people eat is not an ordinary root but a swollen hypocotyl fused with the taproot: a tuber whose colour runs from cream-yellow, by far the most widely grown...
