PERUVIAN FOOD AND NATURAL PRODUCTS

Here we want to offer you a small guide of tipical products and food of Peru. We also want to show the world, some natural products who grow in Peruvian soil, wich in many cases, are use to cure some medical problems.

SACHA INCHI

Also known with the name Peanut of the Inca, the Sacha Inchi, is native of the Peruvian amazonian forest and the native ones of that entangled zone have used it from immemorial times.

In comparison to oils of all the used oily seeds in the world, for human consumption, the Sacha Inchi is richest in insaturados fatty acids, arrives up to 93,6%.

Is the one of greater content of polinsaturados, in average is compound of: 48,60% of fatty acid essential linolenico alpha Omega 3 36,80% of fatty acid essential linoleico Omega 6 and 8.28% of oleic acid Omega 9

And it has the lowest saturated fatty acid content, 6.39% in average, 3.85% of palmítico and 2.54% of esteárico.

By his nature, by the technology used applied for the ecological cultures and their industrial process of extraction, it is an oil of high quality for the feeding and the health. It is the best oil for domestic, industrial, cosmetic and medicinal consumption human; surpassing to all used oils at the moment, as the olive oil, sunflower, soya, maize, palm, peanut, etc. It has many uses, like:
reducer of the cholesterol, table oil, on kitchen, in the industry would feed to enrich with Omega 3 produced foods industrially, in the production of cosmetics, nutracéuticos and in medicine.

Its benefits

It is so the natural power of the Sacha Inchi in benefit of the health that is essential to include it in our meals since it as much favors the correct development and operation of the nervous system as of the brain because he is rich in Essential Fatty acids, as they are
it 6 Omega 3, Omega and Omega 9.

In addition, this prodigious functional food stimulates the fortification of the system of defenses, it favors the best operation of the digestive system and fortifies the bones and the bony system in
general.

Even, recent studies have reported that the Oil Sacha Virgin Extra Inchi, aid to reduce to the bad cholesterol levels in the blood and fortify the heart, collaborating in the diminution of cardiovascular problems, so present in the last decade due to an excessive bad fat
feeding.

Description

The Sacha Inchi, is an oily wild that belongs to the Euforbiacea Family. It is a voluble, trepadora and semiligneous plant, that grows mainly in Eyebrow of Forest. It has been a plant of the
well-known Peruvian Amazonía by the native ones for thousands of years, the preIncas and the Incas used as they attest it ceramic found in tombs (huacos Mochica-Chimu '). The "Club" or "Mallet" this inspired by the capsule of 04 ends of the fruit.

In the seeds they are cotiledones to way of almonds, covers of a fine off-white film that covers to the almond that is the raw material for the extraction of the oil.

The seeds contain from 49 to 54 % of oil.Composition of the Seed: 33 to 35% of Rind and 65 to 67% of almond.

At the moment there are more than 50 echo types inventoried that correspond to ethnic groups of the cultures of the Amazonia.