Just had 3 Tablespoons of quinoa (dry measure) after 4 months without any here in India. Felt soooo good, I had to know why. I think this helps to explain how nourishing it is: Recent studies are providing us with a greatly expanded list of anti-inflammatory phytonutrients in quinoa. This unique combination of anti-inflammatory compounds in quinoa may be the key to understanding preliminary animal studies that show decreased risk of inflammation-related problems (including obesity) when animals are fed quinoa on a daily basis. The list of anti-inflammatory phytonutrients in quinoa is now known to include: polysaccharides like arabinans and rhamnogalacturonans; hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids; flavonoids like quercetin and kaempferol; and saponins including molecules derived from oleanic acid, hederagenin and serjanic acid. Small amounts of the anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), are also provided by quinoa. ...the concentration of these two flavonoids (quercetin and kaempferol) in quinoa can sometimes be greater than their concentration in high-flavonoid berries like cranberry or lingonberry. From whfoods/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=142
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:07:22 +0000
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