| Ancient Nutritious Drink Gains in Popularity |
| Thursday, 13 May 2010 19:41 | |||
 Afton, Minnesota, May 2010 — About 5,000 years ago the people of Peru came up with a tasty, healthy drink they called Chicha Morada. And now Suntava®, a Minnesota-based ingredient technology company, with its proprietary and versatile purple corn hybrid, is launching a purple corn concentrate that can be used by both bottlers and restaurant professionals to formulate this nutritious drink.
Chicha Morada, which dates to pre-Incan times, is a non-alcoholic, spiced beverage produced by boiling purple corn with pineapple, quince, green apple, cinnamon and cloves. Its finish comes with a little lime juice, providing a taste that’s tangy, sweet, fruity and spicy — all at once. In helping cultivate this great new — yet very old taste, Suntava has harnessed the unique properties of purple corn varieties found around the world, strains which trace their ancestries back hundreds of years. After a decade of research and breeding practices over two hemispheres, Suntava is unlocking the health benefits found in these species and making them available to today’s savvy consumer. The concentrate from Suntava’s purple corn that goes into the making of Chicha Morada contains powerful health benefits: it’s non-GMO and loaded with vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The concentrate also contains four times the antioxidant power of blueberries, and is rich in cyanidin-3-glucosides, known to be one of the most powerful anthocyanins present in the natural world, and which are believed to minimize the effects of aging, while reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease. The multiple applications Suntava’s scientists are making possible with their purple corn are not only helping revitalize the food and beverage industry, as this work is being done the quality of the corn’s starches, glutens and oils are being preserved in ways that continue to positively affect the food chain. To learn more about Suntava’s purple corn concentrate, or to investigate its other applications, please visit www.suntava.com, or send an Email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . SOURCE: Suntava (visual courtesy pollisinti.com)
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