A product for use e.g. in foodstuffs to restore the natural mineral composition that optimizes intracellular metabolism in plants, animals as well as humans, and a method for its production, wherein the macro, micro and ultramicro minerals needed for intracellular metabolism according to the users genotype, prepared from perennial plant tissue, are restored e.g. in a foodstuff at production time in correct quantitative proportions and in a usable form (1).