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Article: Quinoa Comeback

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September 1, 2008
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A staple in Inca times, this nutritious, versatile "super food" is undergoing a resurgence in the Andes and beyond

Five thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Inca people grew and ate a nutritious seed crop called quinoa. Although today it makes up only a tiny fraction of the worldwide whole-grain market, quinoa is experiencing tremendous growth in Europe, Canada, the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. This growth has spawned new opportunities for farmers and villages in the Andes, where poverty rates are historically high and nutrition miserably low.

The Inca believed the crop to be sacred and referred to quinoa as chisaya mama, or "mother grain," because of its ...

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