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Innovations in Health Value and Functional Food Development of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.).

ABSTRACT: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa 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 products and processes have been developed from quinoa. Furthermore, 4 clinical studies have demonstrated that quinoa supplementation exerts significant, positive effects on metabolic, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal health in humans. However, vast challenges and opportunities remain within the scientific, agricultural, and development sectors to optimize quinoa's role in the promotion of global human health and nutrition.

SUBMITTER: Graf BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4957693 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Innovations in Health Value and Functional Food Development of Quinoa (<i>Chenopodium quinoa</i> Willd.).

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]

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