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SUBMITTER: Graf BL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4957693 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Graf Brittany L BL Rojas-Silva Patricio P Rojo Leonel E LE Delatorre-Herrera Jose J Baldeón Manuel E ME Raskin Ilya I
Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety 20150410 4
Quinoa (<i>Chenopodium quinoa</i> Willd., Amaranthaceae) is a grain-like, stress-tolerant food crop that has provided subsistence, nutrition, and medicine for Andean indigenous cultures for thousands of years. Quinoa contains a high content of health-beneficial phytochemicals, including amino acids, fiber, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, saponins, phytosterols, phytoecdysteroids, phenolics, betalains, and glycine betaine. Over the past 2 decades, numerous food and nutraceutical ...[more]