| Ultimate SuperFoods Mesquite Pod Meal
Our USDA Organic, Kosher mesquite flour is made from the seedpods of the mesquite tree from Argentina and Peru. Ground mesquite powder taste like an aromatic blend of cinnamon, chocolate, and coffee.
For 2000 years, mesquite flour was a staple food of Native Americans from the Texas to California area, because mesquite trees thrive in arid climates where other crops wither. Mesquite pods were one of the most significant foods of the desert Apache, Pima, Cahuilla, Maricopa, Yuma, Mohave, and Hopi tribes. Like many other desert plants, the mesquite tree super concentrates nutrients in its seeds to compensate for the harsh environment. Consequently, it is so nutritious and mineral-rich that many consider it a "superfood." Mesquite powder is very high in magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium, zinc, fiber, and digestible proteins (including lysine). It also acts as an antioxidant, and its glycemic index is low in spite of its sweet taste. It can be used as either a gluten-free flour or a superfood seasoning.
The trees have small green leaves and yellow hanging seedpods. Mesquite flour is made by washing the pods with water, sorting them for quality, milling and sieving the pods to isolate the most flavorful portion of the pods in the same fashion that Indians did for centuries using stone mortars. The flour is 100% organic. The mesquite flour has a distinctive rich flavor similar to mocha coffee, cinnamon and chocolate. When the flour is heated in the oven, alone or in mixtures, a pleasant aroma appears that is somewhat similar to coconut. The most favorable and flavorful outcome occurs when it constitutes from ten to twenty percent by weight of total mixture.
Use as ingredient in superfood blended drinks with cacao, maca, goji berries, real raw agave nectar,hemp seeds, and coconut oil. In raw food culinary preparations or cooking, mesquite meal can be used as either a spice or flour. As a spice, you can sprinkle mesquite meal on almost anything to add flavor. As a flour, you can mix mesquite with other flours to use in baking. Mesquite flour products can be used as a baking ingredient or a seasoning in many food and drinks. Add mesquite to drinks, soups, cakes, pie crusts, cookies, puddings, vegetables, pancakes, muffins, and ice cream.
* USDA Organic, Kosher
* Taste like cinnamon, chocolate, and coffee
* From Argentina and Peru
* Nutritious and mineral-rich
* High in magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium, zinc, fiber, and digestible proteins
* Low on the glycemic index
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