Anyone Know About Mesquite Flour? Buy Some from Natural News and Let Us Know!

I had never heard of mesquite flour until today.  Evidently it comes from a desert plant and is a little-known specialty food used only by two groups of people: 1) People who live in the desert and whose ancestors used it as food, and 2) People in the raw food / vegan foods community who are bringing it into the mainstream American consciousness.

Allegedly, you can use mesquite flour in all sorts of ways in the kitchen. It's like a low-glycemic flour that's rich in protein and micronutrients. You can make healthy, low-glycemic breads, pancakes and tortillas out of it (as native Americans have done for as long as history has been recorded). It bakes and mixes just like wheat flour, but without the wheat allergens.  It is also gluten free which is a big deal for lots of folks I know.

I've also heard of people using it in raw food recipes and smoothies. This is a highly versatile and very nutritious ingredient that has yet to catch on.

Nearly all of the mesquite flour produced in the world comes from Peru. It's grown quite successfully in the high desert areas of this fertile country. Then it's ground, packaged and exported to the United States (and other countries) where it's incorporated into a number of high-end health products.

You can buy two types of mesquite flour: Organic and conventional. The conventional stuff is obviously sprayed with pesticide chemicals, and I certainly can't recommend eating that so only organic is good.

On the organic side, Natural News has acquired a medium-sized shipment of organic mesquite flour at a very considerate price that they're passing on to their readers. Normally, a 16-oz. bag of organic mesquite flour sells for $20 or so online.

Right now, while the inventory of this shipment lasts, Natural News has a supply of organic mesquite flour from Peru available at just $9.95 per 16-oz. bag. This is the price you might typically pay for "conventional" mesquite flour, except ours is organic (which is usually twice the price).

Once again, NaturalNews buying power has enabled them to make this available to us at an amazing discount. And it gets even better: When you buy three 16-oz. bags of our organic mesquite flour, the price drops to just $8.96 per bag (a 40% savings over the regular price in our store).

Click here to take advantage of these specials right now.

This is probably the best price you'll see anywhere on 16-oz. bags of organic mesquite flour, so if you've never tried this ingredient before, there's no better time that right now to pick some up and see what it's like.

Mesquite flour has a sweet, nutty taste. It has a texture like wheat flour, but perhaps a bit more grainy. It's about 17% protein, making it ideal for those who wish to avoid high-carbohydrate foods. It also has a significantly lower glycemic index than regular white flour... or even wheat flour, for that matter.

Now I know it costs more than wheat flour. So the best way to use this is to stretch your supply by mixing it 50 / 50 with your traditional wheat flour. If you're making recipes for kids (like pancakes in the morning), use even less mesquite powder at first: Maybe 20% in the recipe, until they get used to it. Then you can slowly increase the percentage over time.

Mesquite flour actually tastes really good. I've been known to just chew on the seed pods for fun. People living on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii may also be familiar with mesquite pods because they grow there in large numbers (they were brought by ranchers to provide a high-protein food source for the cows!). The pods in Hawaii also taste really amazing (sweet!) because they're often grown near ocean water. The increased mineralization, it turns out, makes the mesquite pods taste even sweeter, almost like a cake.

To quote Natural News "Here's a natural food, straight off a hardy desert tree, that can replace wheat and other processed grains in our diets. In fact, I have no doubt that if the Latinos and American Indians still living in the Southwest of the USA would go back to their traditional diets -- which included mesquite flour -- they would see a sharp drop in diabetes, a disease that is right now devastating the Latino and Native American communities.

Mesquite flour alone isn't a cure for diabetes (or any disease), but it can be part of a dietary strategy that emphasizes natural, unprocessed foods straight from nature while avoiding liquid sugars and other highly refined foods which we now know greatly increase the risk of type-2 diabetes."

I'm ordering some today and will fill you in on my recipes and whether or not the kids like the taste.  Order some with me and let me know how you like it!  I'm excited.

Organic Mesquite Flour 16 oz. bag for just $9.95
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