ABSTRACT
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 565
Materials and Methods ..................................................................................... 566
Results.................................................................................................................. 567
Discussion and Conclusions ............................................................................ 569
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................. 570
References ........................................................................................................... 570
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) is an ancestral crop from the South
American Andes. Quinoa seeds have high nutritional value and energetic
content, and are consequently very suitable as food. It has a protein content
of 14 to 20% and is particularly rich in essential aminoacids such as lysine
and methionine, which are rare in most cereals (Sigstad and Prado, 1999).
