Quinoa is expensive; what makes it better than ordinary rice?

Summary: Quinoa has become a trendy whole grain. What kind of "grain" is quinoa exactly?

Quinoa (pronounced "li" mai) is probably not very familiar to everyone. What kind of food is quinoa exactly? Many people may not know much about this food. Here we will talk about quinoa.

What is quinoa?

Many friends are not very familiar with quinoa, so what exactly is quinoa? Actually, the reason everyone does not understand quinoa is mainly because quinoa is not a native grain of our country. Quinoa originated in the Indian mountain regions of South America. The colors of quinoa are mainly red, white, and black. Quinoa is praised as the food most suitable for people to eat.

Quinoa is rich in nutrients. Quinoa is also very easy to cook and easy to digest. Its taste is not the same as the rice we often eat, and it also has a faint delicate fragrance. It is rich in a variety of nutrients essential to the human body, especially its protein content, which is very high, and can even rival the protein content in beef. Secondly, it is also rich in a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, among which the lysine rich in quinoa is very rare in other plants. It is rich in dietary fiber and is a low-fat, low-sugar food, so it is very suitable for people to eat.

How is quinoa used?

Having said so much about the benefits of quinoa, how exactly should quinoa be eaten? Cooking with quinoa is actually very convenient. It can be made into porridge, and it can also be steamed as rice. In particular, making quinoa fish soup by cooking quinoa together with fish works well, because the special aroma of quinoa can remove the fishy smell of the fish, so it is very suitable for making fish soup.

It can also be ground into a slurry and then mixed with fruit and soy milk, and the taste is also quite good. Some people like to drink quinoa tea. The method for making quinoa tea is actually very simple. You only need to stir-fry the quinoa a little to bring out the aroma of the quinoa, and then it can be used to brew quinoa tea.

Having said so much about the benefits of quinoa, actually quinoa has already begun to be planted in some regions of our country, but because quinoa is grown in different regions, its quality is also greatly affected. At present, the price of quinoa on the market is still quite high. Imported quinoa costs 80 to 100 yuan per jin, while among domestic quinoa, the better-quality quinoa costs about 50 yuan per jin, and the lower-quality ones are about 20 yuan per jin. Compared with the prices of ordinary grains, such prices are still much higher.

Many growers in China have also taken a fancy to the market potential of quinoa, and many regions have begun to introduce and plant quinoa. The region in our country most suitable for quinoa cultivation should be the Qinghai region. The quinoa grown in the Qinghai region is of better quality, so the price is naturally a bit higher. However, other regions also grow it. For example, Jinchang in Gansu mentioned here is very suitable for quinoa cultivation. If you are interested in quinoa, you can learn more about quinoa in detail.

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