SUPERFOOD INGREDIENTS maqui product formats

Our wholesale Maqui products, both organic and conventional, are available in the following formats:

Powder Products: Freeze Dried Maqui Berry Powder, Maqui Berry Premium Powder, Maqui Berry Reduced Sugar Powder, Maqui Berry Juice Powder

Whole Berries: Freeze Dried Maqui Berries Whole, Dried Whole Maqui Berries

Liquid Products: Maqui Berry Juice Concentratre

Oil Products: Maqui Berry Seed Oil

Some further detail on each product format and their possible applications in the Food, Beverage, Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical sectors is provided below.

Organic Freeze Dried Maqui Berry Powder

Once the Maqui Berries are harvested they are fresh frozen ready for secondary processing. Freeze Drying is one of the best ways of drying these berries; because the anthocyanins and other polyphenols in the Maqui Berry are heat sensitive, by drying the fruit at low temperatures during the freeze drying process, there is only minimal loss in antioxidants and nutrition, making the freeze dried powder highly functional and ideal for nutraceutical and powder supplement applications, as well as any applications for which antioxidant claims need to be made. Since this powder has no ingredients added, and has nothing removed other than the water, it is a pure natural powder with a good fiber content. Freeze Dried Maqui Powder is shelf stable and can be stored at ambient temperature.

Maqui Berry Premium Powder

This is a high quality 100% maqui berry powder, with seeds removed, resulting in a 4.5 : 1 ratio powder packed full of antioxidants. The proprietary drying technology used to make this powder is specifically designed for maximum nutrient retention. The ORAC value of this powder is between 45,000 - 55,000 iμmiol ET/100 g, Ployphenols are 5,000 - 6,500 mg GAE/100g and Anthoxyanins are 3,500 - 5,000 mg cianidin-3-glucoside/100g. This powder is ideal for nutraceutical applications, health supplements and for encapsulation. The powder is free flowing and soluble in water.

Maqui Berry Reduced Sugar Powder

This is a high quality 100% maqui berry powder, with seeds and most of the sugars removed, resulting in a 9 : 1 ratio powder packed full of antioxidants. The proprietary drying technology used to make this powder is specifically designed for maximum nutrient retention. The ORAC value of this powder is between 55,000 - 72,000 μmol ET/100 g, Ployphenols are 5,500 - 8,000 mg GAE/100g and Anthoxyanins are 4,200 - 6,200 mg cianidin-3-glucoside/100g. This powder is ideal for nutraceutical applications, health supplements and for encapsulation where a reduced sugar content is desirable. The powder is free flowing and soluble in water.

Organic Maqui Berry Juice Powder

Our Organic Maqui Berry Juice Powder is an ideal format for beverage applications, or superfruit mixes intended for adding to water, as this product presents good solubility in water. The juice of the berry is extracted and then spray dried with the help of a drying aid (maltodextrin). Although this powder does not present the same levels of antioxidants as the freeze dried maqui berry powder, it does still provide the flavour and colour of Maqui, along with many of the nutritional benefits. Maqui Juice Powder is shelf stable and can be stored at ambient temperature.

Organic Maqui Berry Juice Concentrate

Our Organic Maqui Berry Juice Concentrate is made by extracting the juice of the freshly harvested maqui berry, and then concentrating this to a ratio of 4:1 (juice : concentrate). Once concentrated the resulting deep purple liquid is frozen, ready to be used in the food and beverage industry for making high antioxidant juices, ice-creams, yoghurts and desserts. This product provides all of the goodness, flavour and colour that you would wish from a superfruit without any other ingredients added.

Organic Whole Dried Maqui Berries

Superfood Ingredient’s Organic Whole Dried Maqui Berries are a new addition to our range. When picked the maqui berry is about half the size of a blueberry with some small seeds within the berry. These berries are then air dried (with the addition of some sunflower oil to prevent them from becoming brittle) to form whole dried maqui berries that have the full flavour of the berry. The berries are soft and chewy with a crunch provided by the seeds. About the size of a peppercorn once dried, these are great as snacks by themselves, or as a good addition to cereals, cereal bars, baked goods such as muffins and cakes, or mixed in desserts or smoothies. The Berries can also be freeze dried to form small crunchy berries great for use in cereals and cereal bars.

Maqui Berry Seed Oil

Superfood Ingredient’s Maqui Berry Seed Oil is a cold pressed oil, extracted from the seed of the Maqui Berry. This oil, dark green in colour, is used for cosmeceutical applications, favoured for its excellent content of Linoleic Acid (45 - 50%), Oleic Acid (36 - 42%) and Palmitic Acid (6 - 10%), making it a desirable ingredient in skin care and hair care applications.

SUPERFOOD INGREDIENTS maqui harvesting and production

Wild Harvested by Local Communities

Like many of our Superfood Ingredients, we seek to supply in our range of products foods that are not only beneficial to health, but that are also sourced in such a way that provides real benefits to the local communities from which they are sourced. Our Organic Maqui Berries (Aristotelia chilensis) are certainly a prime example of this. The Maqui Berry, also sometimes known as the Chilean Wineberry, grows naturally across wide areas of native Patagonian rainforest, estimated to cover 170,000 hectares. Most of the wild harvested Maqui Berries come from an area of the Chilean Andes inhabited by the Mapuche people, a community of indigenous inhabitants of this region, who have been harvesting the amazing Maqui Berry for many centuries.

By working directly with local communities in this way, we are able to help provide an important source of sustainable income to these people, whilst at the same time helping them protect the important resource and environment from which the Maqui Berry is collected.

The Maqui Berry (Aristotelia chilensis) has been valued by the Mapuche people of Patagonia for many centuries as a nourishing food, and more recently as an important source of income and of economic development

Deriving the best of Maqui - Organic Processing

Once the Organic Maqui Berries have been harvested the fruit is quickly taken for processing, so that the benefits of this high antioxidant superfruit are maintained. The method of processing depends on the derivative product: freeze drying to form an Organic Raw Maqui Berry Powder, propretary nutrient retention drying to produce the Premium Maqui Berry Powders, low temperature air drying to make a Whole Dried Maqui Berry Snack, perfect for adding to cereals or baked goods. The juice is used to make an Organic Maqui Berry Juice Concentrate, for beverage applications, or spray dried to make an Organic Maqui Berry Juice Powder.