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AMARANTH
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UNIT:
Net weight 500gr/ 2.20 lb - Liquid weight 500gr
PACK:
Type
of Material: opp/opp 35 micr / 35 mic. bilaminated without
reliable five colors. BARCODE: 7793132003010 RICH
IN PROTEINS-CARBOHYDRATES ENERGY: 368 Calories in 100gr Main
Nutritious: proteins 16% - carbohydrates
Biological
value of the proteins of some foods (FAO:
Ideal value 100) Amaranth 75 - Bovine Milk 72 - Soya 68 - Wheat 60
- Corn 44 |
Comparing Amaranth (Amaranthus Cadattus) with the bovine milk, it have four times more proteins, 30% than calcium, and almost five times more than phosphorus.
Their name in Greek means everlasting, which does not wither because it does not die when its seeds are harvested.
Plant amaranthaceous grows quickly and have wide purple leaves, red and golden shafts and flowers. Its grains are slightly bigger than poppy seeds and they appear in big quantities.
The amaranth, the quinoa and the kañahua constituted the trio of gold of the Inca´s feeding. Their consumption goes back to 10000 years of antiquity. In the Inca empire, as the Maya and Aztec civilizations, was considered as a sacred grain.
In
conquest times of there was prohibited for the natives its cultivation and
consumption because of the relation with inexhaustible energy and physical
strength. there was prohibited for the natives its cultivation and
consumption because of the relation with inexhaustible energy and physical
strength. In case of disobedience, there was death penalty.