Quinoa domestication and consumption dates back roughly 3,000 to 6,000 years BCE. It is a native plant of the Andean region and was a staple in the diets of Colombians, Peruvians, Bolivians and other inhabitants of the area surrounding Lake Titicaca.Quinoa refers to a whole plant, Chenopodium quinoa, a goosefoot genus. It is a member of the amaranth family and is a distant relative of spinach. The actual product sold for eating is the quinoa plant's seed, shorn of its bitter coating. Quinoa possesses components that qualify its seed as something like a cereal, or pseudocereal. It was a...
Quinoa domestication and consumption dates back roughly 3,000 to 6,000 years BCE. It is a native plant of the Andean region and was a staple in the di...
