The Ancient Tableby Mexican Growers
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Food is where healthy living begins.

Traditional Mexican foods. Nutrient-dense by nature.

Mexican Growers sources traditional Mexican foods and ingredients directly from growers and artisan producers across Mexico. From organic dried mango, Sierra Madre specialty coffee and Criollo cacao to Costeño Rojo chile, flor de Jamaica, Sea of Cortez sea salt and avocado seed powder, we select distinctive ingredients for exceptional flavor, regional character and natural nutrient density—keeping each one close to its origin, traditional methods and the people behind it.

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People behind the food — generations in every harvest

Small batches

Carefully sourced and kept close to their origin.

Direct relationships

We know the growers and makers behind the ingredients.

Traditional methods

Cultivated, dried and preserved as generations have done.

Our Story▶

Our story

Behind every ingredient is a place, a person and a tradition.

Meet the Grower Behind the Harvest

Mexican Growers began with a simple belief: healthy living starts with food. Long-term research continues to associate higher-quality dietary patterns with healthier aging. That is why we set out to find some of the most nutrient-rich traditional foods Mexico has to offer.

We go to the source, working directly with growers and artisan producers to understand how each ingredient is grown, prepared and preserved. We select in small batches, keeping each one close to its origin, its natural character and the traditions that give it meaning.

Research note: NIH — Midlife eating patterns tied to health decades later ↗

Our journey began with Michoacán Growers Avocado Seed Powder. It still carries its original name as a reminder of where we started. The Ancient Table carries that journey forward—bringing more of Mexico’s traditional ingredients to tables beyond the communities where they began.

Our ingredients

Rooted in lush, fertile soil.

We seek out distinctive Mexican ingredients for their natural nutrient density, exceptional flavor and regional character. Across Mexico, fertile soils, volcanic growing regions and diverse climates create some of North America’s richest agricultural landscapes.

Generations of growers have learned what thrives in these landscapes—what to cultivate, when to harvest and how to preserve it using traditional methods. We source in small batches, close to origin, keeping each ingredient true to the land and people behind it.

Costeño Rojo dried chile peppers from Mexico
Michoacán Growers avocado seed powder
Sea of Cortez Sea Salt from Baja California, Mexico
Criollo cacao beans from Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico
Flor de Jamaica dried hibiscus flowers from Mexico
Sierra Madre specialty coffee beans from Mexico
Organic Dried Mango
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Founder’s Testimony

The personal journey that started it all.

In 2020, I moved to Mexico looking for a healthier way of living. Surrounded by a culture with deep agricultural and culinary traditions, I became increasingly interested in nutrition and in understanding how the foods and ingredients around us influence the way we live.

During that journey I came across something almost everyone throws away: the avocado seed.

I began researching it, collecting seeds from local restaurants, drying them, grinding them and experimenting with using the resulting powder as part of my daily routine.

At the same time, I was making significant changes to the way I ate and lived. Over time, the transformation in my life was substantial. I lost more than 100 pounds, became considerably more active and developed an entirely different relationship with food and nutrition.

That experience changed the direction of my life.

It made me ask a much bigger question.

For decades I had lived with health issues, chronic pain and inflammation. My back had become so bad that at times I could barely walk, bend down or sleep. Prescription medications—including statins and painkillers—had become a normal part of my life.

Then I changed the way I ate. I began focusing on real, nutrient-rich foods and traditional ingredients. Avocado seed powder became part of my daily routine, along with Criollo cacao beans, mineral-rich Sea of Cortez sea salt and other foods I was discovering throughout Mexico.

Once I introduced avocado seed powder into my life and changed the way I was eating, everything changed for me. I could move again. I could bend down. I could sleep. I became active again after years in which pain had shaped what I could and could not do.

This is my personal experience. I am not saying one ingredient is a cure, and my story is not a clinical study. But what happened in my own life was real, and it was impossible for me to ignore.

Then I took it to Eco Tianguis in Zihuatanejo.

I began taking the avocado seed powder to the Saturday Eco Tianguis organic farmers market in Zihuatanejo. At first I simply wanted to share something that had become important in my own life.

Then people started coming back. Customers living with long-standing health issues told me that adding the powder to their routines had changed their lives. In some cases, I watched the transformation in people I saw week after week. Their experiences echoed what I had experienced myself.

The loyalty of some of those early customers still stays with me. I have had customers in the United States spend around US$150 just to ship a bag that sold locally for about MXN 350. Before the powder became available through Amazon, some told me they would have paid many times the price simply to keep getting it.

A biologist who worked with us at the market became interested enough in the powder to take it to his university for study. He later reported back to me about the richness of the naturally occurring compounds he found.

Later, Dr. Rothman Kam of Auckland University of Technology’s food science department ordered our avocado seed powder, gave it a five-star review, and confirmed to me that our product had been used in his research.

That made me ask: if something as overlooked as an avocado seed could contain this much nutritional potential, what else was being grown, harvested, dried and preserved throughout Mexico that most of us had simply stopped paying attention to?

What began with one seed became something much bigger.

What began with one seed became Michoacán Growers Avocado Seed Powder. We will keep the Michoacán Growers name on this product because it is the founding product that started our journey.

That first ingredient led me to look across Mexico for traditional, nutrient-rich foods and naturally mineral-rich ingredients—foods connected to their place of origin, to the people behind them and to generations of knowledge.

That search became Mexican Growers.

— John Galoni, Founder

My own before and after.

John Galoni before his health and lifestyle transformation
Before — during the years when chronic pain and limited mobility were part of daily life.
John Galoni after his health and lifestyle transformation
After — following the changes in the way I ate, moved and lived.

This is a personal founder testimony and includes experiences reported by customers. Individual experiences vary. The published research on avocado seed is presented separately on our Avocado Seed Powder page.