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Maca:
Lepidium meyenii Walp. (Quiros and Cardenas)
Lost
Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise
for Worldwide Cultivation Office of International Affairs 1989)
Maca:
Lepidium meyenii (International Potato Center)
Maca,
or Peruvian Ginseng, an Andean crucifer (Quiros)
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& D.: Functional Foods - Back to the Future (Hughes 2001)
Ingredients
Fit for Functional Foods (Hughes 2001)
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