Next green food craze will be frog juice

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Peruvian villagers living in the Andean mountains have shunned modern medicine in favor of a traditional cure-all which is used to treat all manner of maladies, from a slow sex drive to high levels of stress: blended frog juice.

While there is no scientific evidence to support the juice's medicinal benefits, many locals living in Peru and Bolivia believe that it is the ultimate fix for almost any illness, including asthma and bronchitis.

The most popular recipe calls for the use of whole frogs, which are beaten to death and skinned before being put into the blender.

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Many local food vendors then add a number of other healthy ingredients, such as carrots, Peruvian maca root and honey, before blending the mixture until it is smooth.

The finished product is usually light green in color and is served to customers then and there.

'Frog juice is good for anemia, bronchitis, bones, the brain, fatigue, stress and it is mostly children, adults, persons with anemia, respiratory issues and sometimes tuberculosis [who come to my stand],' Peruvian food vendor Maria Elena Cruz claims.

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Unfortunately, the juice requires the use of frogs from the Telmatobius culeus species, a water frog from remote Lake Titicaca that is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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