Quinoa: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(new) |
m (added category) |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa Quinoa at Wikipedia] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa Quinoa at Wikipedia] | ||
[[Category:Grains]] | |||
[[Category:Glossary]] | |||
Revision as of 06:35, 30 October 2017
File:Chenopodium quinoa0.jpg
The quinoa plant ready to harvest.
Quinoa is a flowering plant in the amaranth family. It is a herbaceous annual plant grown as a grain crop primarily for its edible seeds. Because it is not a grass, it is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal. Quinoa is closely related to the edible plants beetroot, spinach, and amaranth (Amaranthus spp.), another pseudocereal which it closely resembles.