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Soak or boil to make chicha morada: a nutritious and refreshing, super-nutrient tea A nutritious and delicious way to make your own flour for purple tortillas, chips and cornbread People of the Andes make a refreshing drink from purple corn called 'chicha morada' which is now recognized as a nutritive powerhouse due to its phenolic content. Purple corn contains substantial amounts of phenolics and anthocyanins among other phytochemicals and research shows that crops with the highest total phenolic and anthocyanin content also have the highest antioxidant activity. The Anthocyanins are a type of complex flavonoid that produce the blue, purple or red colors of the corn. Phenolics are known to have many bioactive and functional properties (see below). Purple Corn has higher antioxidant capacity and antiradical kinetics than blueberries.

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