Our Story

Three products, three regions of Peru

Andes Nature does not sell "Peruvian products." We sell three of them, and we know where each one comes from.

Maras salt, Cusco

At an altitude of 3,300 meters, above the Sacred Valley, a salty underground spring has been flowing forever. The inhabitants of Maras have carved about 3,000 pools into the mountainside to capture it. The water evaporates in the sun, the salt settles, and it is harvested by shovel. The system dates back to before the Incas and still operates in the same way: each pool belongs to a family in the village, who maintains and harvests it themselves.

This salt has never seen the sea. It comes from an ancient fossil aquifer, which explains its pinkish color and its taste, which is less biting than sea salt.

Kuntu coffee, Amazonas

Rodríguez de Mendoza, in northern Peru. Family plots at high altitude, coffee trees grown in the shade of trees, and harvesting done cherry by cherry. Nothing industrial. This is what gives Kuntu its fine acidity and notes of dark chocolate.

Black maca, Junín

The Junín altiplano, between 4,000 and 4,400 meters. Very little grows at this altitude; but maca does. Black is the rarest of the three colors. Harvested by hand, sun-dried for several weeks using the Andean method, then ground into powder.

What we do, and what we do not do

We work directly with identified producers on volumes that remain small. We do not buy from wholesale marketplaces and we do not mix batches from different origins.

In return, our catalog is short. We prefer three products that we know to thirty that we would simply resell.

Where we are

Orders are shipped from our stock in France. For deliveries outside the European Union, customs duties, taxes, or import formalities may apply depending on the destination.

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