QUINOA

Quinoa Rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals The Quinoa or Quinua (Its pronunciation is Keenwa) is called habitually, as well as the Amaranth, SUPERCEREALS for its major superiors nutritious properties, is a rounded small seed (as of smoothed disk), its color varies from the target to the yellowish beige, its aspect is comparable to a mixture between sesame seeds and millet.

The quinoa is not a cereal and it belongs to the family of the Chenepodium, it is an annual plant with a height of three to six feet and their seeds are in big bunch at the end of the shaft. In natural state, their seeds are recovered by saponins (substances resinous).  They have to be washed preferably with alkaline water before consuming.

The Quinoa, apparently new for us, dates of at least 3000 years b.C. In Inca´s time was called the grain mother and they worshipped it like sacred plant. 

This surprising supercereal is being revalued and rediscovered.  According to the history in conquest times 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.

According to NASA investigations and the text of Greg Schilick and Bubenheim (1996), The Quinoa has become a CELL cultivation (controlled ecological life support system) for the NASA. CELLS means that plants will be used to remove the dioxide of carbon of the atmosphere and, at the same time, to generate foods, oxygen and water for the tripulation of long duration space missions. The approaches to select these cultivations include the composition of nutritious, the crop rate, the stature and the duration of the life cycle.