if quinua is not a grain or grass, what is it? We eat the seeds.?

Question

and is there a quinoa cereal that is precooked and you buy a box and just pour milk on it and eat it cold? and if so is it "puffed" like puffed rice or something?

Answer 1

Quinoa is a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium) grown as a crop primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudograin and a pseudocereal rather than a true grain or a true cereal as it is not a grass. Its leaves are also eaten as a leaf vegetable, much like amaranth, but the commercial availability of quinoa greens is currently limited.

and some places, like "Henry's grocery store" you can buy quinoa flakes (like corn flakes) other wise just cook like rice in a rice cooker.

Answer 2

Check Wikipedia for reliable definition. The simple version is that it is a seed, not a grain, from a goosefot plant (broadleaf). It is often called a grain though, as its ues are very similar.

Quinoa is gluten-free, a whole grain and mostly produced organically.

quinoa can be used to replace rice in most recipes. You can find it puffed (very rare), flaked and also in its red and black versions.

Quinoa was found in Tiwanaku graves (800 BC) but it's been cultivated in the salt lake regions of Bolivia continuously for thousands of years ( even though the Spanish outlawed its cultivation in te 16th-18th C.)

You can find more info and recipes at www.andeannaturals.com

Sergio

Answer 3

As curious fa... says is a chenopodium from the same family of amaranth...
What I heard about quinoa which comes from Peru is that it was found somewhere in a grave and was very old.
Still they were able to grow it and to eat it...
It is undemanding and grows as high as 4000 m above see level in the Andes...
It is a called cereal by an organic shop as I saw before answering you in Yahoo search.
Wikipedia have also its definition...
But my little story came by hearsay...
So to come back to you question as wikipedia says, it is a crop of which we eat mostly the seeds but the leafs are edible too...