potential health benefits, and versatility in culinary use and flavor, seeds are an important part of the human diet. A large food category, “seeds” encompasses grains, legumes, and nuts. The foods that many
prickly amaranth or thorny amaranth belongs to Amaranth family Amaranthaceae. The plant is widely distributed throughout the tropics and warm temperate regions of Asia from Japan to Indonesia to India, the Pacific islands, native to tropical America and Australia as a weed in cultivated as well as...
Marcone FM 2001: Starch properties of Amaranthus pumilus (seabeach amaranth): a treatened plant species with potential benefits for the breeding / amelioration of present Amaranthus cultivars. Food chem 1: 61 - 66MARCONE M F.Starch properties of Amaranthus pumilus(seabeach amaranth):A threatened ...
Botanically, species of amaranth cultivated for theirleaves differ from those grown for grain production, often referred to aspseudocereals. Vegetable amaranths are distinguished by traits such as short spike inflorescence, glossy brownish-black seeds, and an indeterminate growth habit. Notableleafy amaran...
Sprouting grains, like amaranth, can increase the antioxidant content. In fact, sprouting amaranth seeds increased the antioxidant activity by more than 300 percent, the total phenolic content by more than 800 percent and flavonoid content by more than 200 percent, per a September 2014 study inPla...
I started with lots of fruit or concentrate juice of mango, passion fruit. As he got used to drink it I reduced the amount of sugars. In our diet we had o salt, no bread, no meat, no GMO but we did have beans, quinoa, chia, amaranth, seeds we consume in my homeland country. ...
Negi PS, Roy SK (2003) Changes in β-carotene and ascorbic acid content of amaranth and fenugreek leaves during storage by low cost technique. Plant Food Hum Nutr 58:1–8 ArticleGoogle Scholar Nile SH, Park SW (2013) Optimized methods for in vitro and in vivo anti-inflammatory assays and...
Amaranthus cruentus commonly known as African spinach is a flowering plant species that yields the nourishing staple amaranth grain. It is one of three Amaranthus species cultivated as a grain source, the other two being Amaranthus hypochondriacus and Amaranthus caudatus. The plant is native to Centra...
Quinoa comes from thesame plant family as amaranth, another popular pseudo-cereal grain. This 7,000-year-old plant originated in the Andes of South America, but humans have only been harvesting quinoa and using it as a source of nutrition for 3-4,000 years. ...