Gelatinized maca from Peru's Junín plateau: a warm, malty powder with a flavor not unlike butterscotch. Stir a teaspoon into your morning porridge, smoothie or mug of warm milk.
At a glance
Above 4,000 meters in the Peruvian Andes, on a wind-scoured plateau where almost nothing else will grow, a knobby root swells beneath the soil.