Quinoa

Plant Quinoa - Help Solve World Hunger
Quintessential Quinoa
Quinoa is important to researchers the world over. Why? Because It is a plant that could play a role in alleviating world hunger. This past summer, in the Okanagan Valley, Canada, I had the pleasure of watching this quintessential super-food, quinoa, grow from a seed, to a tiny plant, to a tall flowering plant, to being harvested. Just what is quinoa? (Keen-wah)

Quinoa salads
The Gluten Free Grain You Will Love
I discovered quinoa about a year ago and tried it as a change to eating rice and pasta all the time. Since then I have been experimenting with lots of different quinoa salads and have come up with some firm favourites. I have shared my 2 most popular salads here and have also included my 10 favourite quinoa salads by other chefs. I hope you enjoy experimenting with this super food. Your body will thank you.

Quinoa - Recipes for babies and young children
Quinoa - a nutritious food
The ancient Incas, called quinoa "the mother grain" for a reason. This "whole" food was thought to promote healthy pregnancy, contribute to a healthy baby and enhance a mother's milk. Quinoa, a nutritious food, is rich in the amino acid histadine, which is considered an essential amino acid in children because it is necessary for human development.

Tasty and Healthy Quinoa Salad Recipe
Quinoa: A Great Base For All Kinds of Ingredients
Image Source: Flickr / CC This healthy dish is delish! Quinoa salad can be eaten as a side dish for any meal of the day or, with an added ingredient or two , a main dish, especially for brunch or lunch. Following the recipe below, I've included suggestions for substitutions and additions, but quinoa is a very versatile main ingredient, so feel free to be creative.

Is Quinoa The Ultimate Whole Grain?
Quinoa - Is it actually a grain?
For some reason, quinoa confounds people. It's often called a grain, when technically it's a seed related to spinach. It's touted as new, while the people of the Andean mountains have never stopped eating it during the last 5,000 years. Maybe most confounding is the name itself. It is pronounced as keen-wah, while it looks as if it should be pronounced as kwin-oh-ah. All that aside, quinoa is a nutritional powerhouse that happens to be easy to prepare and tastes marvelous.

All about Quinoa!
All about Tiny little seeds and Healthy protien rich Quinoa Recipes!
If Quinoa is new to you, you may be wondering what is it all about. When you search in search engines, you get so many articles talking about Quinoa. Yes. They are right. This tiny grain like seed has a wonderful nutritional facts. Specifically high in 'Folate','iron' magnesium','zinc' and 'High in Protien', If you are trying to loose weight and fltten your abs. You add this seed to your regular diet. I did not know about this awesome seed until last year. I accedantaly met this Mr. Quionoa s...