Dr. Diego Bohórquez

I believe it's pumpkins or some type of fibers with corn, carbohydrates, and beans.

That's right.

And I grew up in a farm.

My parents had farms.

And I remember when they would plant, they would also like throw in there the beans.

And the beans would wrap around the corn.

And it just seemed like so natural.

And that's what you will do because that's what you learn to do.

But if you think about it, it's an instinct that we have developed even agriculturally, probably in the subconscious, to cultivate them in such a way.

Or perhaps the plants taught us how to cultivate them in such a way that now when we put them in the plate,

it just makes sense at the nutritional level.

Because if you think about it, every time that we go to eat, how is it that we arrange that plate, right?

There is some rice, which is very deficient in some essential amino acids, but it's rich in carbohydrates, right?

It has some beans, right?

And then there are some lettuce, you know, and sometimes if we have like for omnivores, people will put meat or you would put other types of protein in there, right?

I was born in the Amazonia of Ecuador, a small town called El Chaco in Ecuador.

It's on the slopes of the eastern slopes of the Andes on the way to the Amazonia.

in the Napa province.

Coincidentally, it was like through the path from where Francisco de Orellana in 1542 marched on its way to the discovery of the Amazon.

It actually passed through a trail that later on reading, I realized that Native people had all of these trails between the Amazonia and the Andes and the coastal line for thousands of years.