"I remember when I was a child, there was a terrible famine, it lasted for at least 5 years. We had no food so the families went to the forest to gather Maya Nut to eat. We ate almost nothing but Maya Nut for five years and no one in the village died or even got sick. It was a miracle. Maya Nut saved our lives."
Jose Lira, Chinandega, Nicaragua

"When I was growing up in the highlands of Guatemala there was a drought and our corn died. I had 8 brothers and sisters and we ate about 10 pounds of corn a day in our family. There was no corn, so my father took the mules and went to the lowlands and brought back several hundred pounds of Maya Nut. We lived on that for several months."
Rosa Maria Choc, Antigua, Guatemala

"We have researched the nutritional status of Guatemalans during the past 50 years and apparently during a 7-year famine in Jutiapa the people consumed Maya Nut instead of their usual corn and beans. After that famine malnutrition levels in the region were the lowest they have ever been, it had to have been due to the Maya Nut"
Mario Leon, Guatemalan Department of Agriculture