Juan Ignacio López Moncada

A space where field meets science, curiosity meets experience, and questions become ideas.

I am an agribusiness entrepreneur

with over 15 years of experience operating across the agri-food value chains in Argentina and around the world.

Founder of BRO Food Supplier & Head of Xiamerica Food Supplier

a company specialized in the production, processing and export or organic grains and specialty foods - including peanuts, sesame, soybeans, chia, corn sunflower and chickpeas - supplying industries in the Unites States, Europe and Canada.

Passionate about well-being, sustainability, and nature

seeking balance between body and mind while making conscious choices for a healthier planet.

Latest posts(3)

LIFESTYLE

What if having a routine isn’t about discipline, but about biology?

Routine, when it is consistent with our evolutionary design: is not a prison, but a direct path to well-being. The reason why the body functions more efficiently with fixed schedules lies in the deep physiology of the circadian rhythm, the endocrine system, the autonomic nervous system, and internal molecular

by Juan Ignacio López Moncada Sep 24, 2026

FIELD

Nothing Goes In

The peanut process is subtractive, and the proof is the layer of oil in the jar. There is a simple way to judge how heavily a process intervenes in a food. Ask what gets added. For peanut, the answer is nothing. I want to walk through the whole process, because

by Juan Ignacio López Moncada Sep 18, 2026

FIELD

In 1987, in Florida, a peanut quietly stopped making an enzyme by accident.

Nobody engineered it. The plant broke on its own, and the break is the reason peanut can be put in the same sentence as olive oil. Peanut converts oleic acid into linoleic acid using a desaturase encoded by two homeologous genes, ahFAD2A and ahFAD2B. In the line catalogued as F435,

by Juan Ignacio López Moncada Sep 07, 2026