Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca™
Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca™ USES ONLY 100% NATURAL MACA ROOTS (Lepidium peruvianum Chacon) NEVER ARE STEMS OR LEAVES IN THE MAKING OF THIS HIGH QUALITY PRODUCT USED, AS WELL AS MEETING THE TECHNICAL STANDARDS GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE OF LA MOLINA FOR THE PROCESS OF GELATINAZATION, ASSURING ITS QUALITY, PURITY, AND POTENCY AND HAVING THE UNIVERSITY ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE FINISHED PRODUCT FOR US. SEE GELATINIZED FACILITIES    
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WHY GELATINIZED MACA?    
More Digestible
Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca™ can be better digested than regular maca powder used by other brands.
The maca contains approximately 60% of carbohydrates in its nutritional value. During the gelatinzation process, long chains of starches contained in the maca powder are unfolded, increasing the digestibility degree, also known as gelatinzation index, which, in the case of our product reaches up to a 98% index

Dissolves Instantly In Water
Unlike the flour found in regular maca powder.  This benefit is due to the great number of hydrogen bonds generated during starch unfolding in the gelatinization process.

Less Microbiological Content
Microbiologic: The maca plant is cultivated in the Peruvian Andes, where there is a lack of adequate aseptic handling conditions. As a result, the product obtained has a high content of pathogen agents. Companies in charge of the production and encapsulation process of the common maca powder usually solve this problem by:

• They simply sell or encapsulate it, not caring about it’s microbiologic content
  

• Gelatinized Maca products that are produced outside of the National University of Agriculture, La Molina, are usually poor attempts to duplicate the real thing. 
  

• When entering demanding markets, the maca powder is irradiated at the Peruvian Institute of Nuclear Energy (IPEN).  In this case, even though it’s still not proven that irradiation can or cannot cause cancer or other alterations, some markets such as the Japanese have restricted the entrance of irradiated maca.  

Higher Density
Meaning that while a size zero capsule containing maca in the form of powder has normally a total value of 400-420 milligrams of this product, the same capsule containing the gelatinized form has a total value of 500 milligrams. Showing that gelatinized maca capsules are more concentrated than common maca capsules. Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca is now available in higher potency 600mg capsules in double zero capsules.

WHY GELATINIZED MACA FROM A Healthy Alternative, LLC? 
Because of use of the highly selected raw material which has been organically grown above 4,000 m.a.s.l. Therefore, no fertilizers or other toxic substances have been used during its process, unlike in lower altitudes, where due to the existence of more favorable conditions for larger crop productions, such as potatoes, farmers have been using for decades toxic substances (fertilizers, urea) for pest-control purposes

On the other hand, scientific studies have proven that the natural intensity of the solar radiation from the sun existent in the highlands allows the synthesis of most of the valuable contents of alkaloids and glucosinolates existing in the maca because the process of Gelatinization meets the technical standards given by the National University of Agriculture of La Molina, Peru. And also our product don’t  contain excipients or preservatives, obtaining a completely natural product free of chemical substances. A Healthy Alternative, LLC is one of the very few company's that bring there organic crops to the University and the University then produces the finished Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca.    

THE RAW MATERIAL

Gelatinized maca is obtained through a process specially conceived at the Institute of Agro Industrial Development of the National University of Agriculture of La Molina. The result is a high-quality product able to compete even in the most exigent demanding markets.

The process begins after the selection of the maca roots, then continuing with the careful disinfections. Finally, the roots are dried at high pressure and temperature for a very short time in order to reduce the minimum of any possibility of contamination by microorganisms in the final product. 

Special care has been taken in the selection of the cooking-drying method. Under carefully controlled parameters to assure a low level of final humidity (9-11%), allowing the long chains of starches to unfold without denaturalizing the active principles, making the Gelatinized Imperial Gold Maca™  a product 98% digestible and complete in its properties. 

The cooking-drying process applied to the gelatinized maca  guarantees that the final product has similar properties to those of the maca consumed traditionally by our ancestors. Indeed, it assures the none existence of cyanhydric acid acid (toxic element found in the raw maca).  

Suggested use: the dose recommended of gelatinized maca is 1-1.5g/person/day, lower than the common maca powder which is  2-2.5 g/person/day.

In each stage of the elaboration process, there are rigorous quality controls. All our finished Imperial Gold Maca products are certified by the National University of Agriculture, La Molina, Peru, and it's laboratory certifies each stage and issues and official certificate of analysis on its stationary that is forwarded to our customers with orders of 1 kilo or more, otherwise official University labels are attached to all bulk packages showing the lot number and batch number as assigned by this University.

Gelatinized maca products that do not have this official document from this University are attempting to fool the public in thinking they are getting the real thing. GELATINIZED MARKETER EXPOSED

GELATINIZED MACA 
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Chemical Analysis

Minerals (mg/100g)
Ca                   450-680
P                     300-350
Mg                      75-95
Fe                         7-9
Zn                         3-5
Na                    90-110
K                   900-1200

Vitamins (mg/100g)
C vitamin                     20-30
B Vitamin                        1-5
Carotene                   0.2-0.3
Riboflavin                0.65-1.00
Niacin                       8-13.50

Microbiologic limits:
Total aerobic microorganisms   100 cfu/g
Total fungus and yeast:         100 cfu/g
Pathogens:                            Absent

Description:
Stabilized powder of instant solubility, golden yellowish color, and characteristic odor. Gelatinization  index of  98% or plus. 

Certification of Quality: 
Sanitary Registration Number will always accompany all bulk maca products (1 kilo or more) purchased from A Healthy Alternative, LLC, so you can be sure that you are getting the very best and the real thing.

Only The Very Best Will Work Exactly
As The Clinical Studies Did!