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Hot and liquid panela, obtained from the boiling of sugarcane juice, being poured into a wooden tub during the panela production process in a farm close to San Augustin, Colombia, 18 April 2004. Panela is considered as bio natural food because it is unrefined and it contains large amounts of proteins, calcium, iron and ascorbic acid. The main producer of panela is Colombia but it is produced virtually anywhere in tropics of Latin America where sugarcane is grown.