Kapok Naturals Maca is a light powder that has smooth taste. It will compliment your smoothies, cereals and yogurt well and it can be used when baking cakes, cookies and other pastry products. Maca is a radish-like root vegetable that grows in the Andean mountains of Peru. Kapok Maca comes from the finest sources in Peru and grown at very high altitudes (7,000 - 11,000 ft.).