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Article: cooking with quinoa
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Learn how to prepare and enjoy this versatile, delicious, and highly nutritious supergrain
At first glance, quinoa lacks appeal. It appears to be a plain, lackluster brown grain, which to many consumers more closely resembles birdseed than a food they'd want to serve for dinner. But once they try it, even skeptics will find that versatile quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa) has its place in a healthful diet.
Though quinoa is a relatively new grain alternative in the United States, it has existed for centuries. The ancient Incas called it "the mother of grain," and the pre-Columbian Andean Indians ate it often because quinoa provided nutritional qualities that another main food source, the potato, ...