The first seeds of the season planted himself emperor, using gold instruments. So imagine the majestic figure of the emperor, for some reason, in sparkling gold dress at sunrise planting a quinoa and admiring the views of the devotees of his subjects.

Despite the royal romance, history quinoa is not cloudless. The Spanish conquistadors in an attempt to destroy the culture of the indigenous Indians, forbade them to grow quinoa under penalty of death. Instead, the Incas were forced to grow wheat. It's frightening to think that the world would never see the quinoa.

However, in 1553 Quinoa is mentioned in the book "Chronicle of Peru" Cieza de Leon, first describing the ethnic groups in South America.

"There is another very good product that they call throw [Quinua], having a leaf, like quinoa Moorish, and it grows the plant is almost a man's height, and throw a very small seed, [it is] and white and multi-colored. Because it makes drinks and eat it fried, we figure "

Nevertheless conquistadors were among the cruel people open-minded and flexible mind.
Despite the fact that there are more than 120 varieties of quinoa, consumers are only three basic types of quinoa - red, black, and plain, cream color. Particularly distinguished in any nutrient, nor in culinary respect between them. Quinoa grows in the form of a sort of fluffy inflorescences of white, gold and crimson red. Such beauty - eyes do not tear. Imagine the most beautiful Russian autumn: crimson and gold play interspersed with almost black red color. So look fields of quinoa. It is time to compose a poem. Or just enjoy for hours.

Quinoa is very useful. In this magical rump contains 12-18% easily digestible protein whole, far more than any other cereals. For comparison, the rice is contained only 7.5% protein. In addition, this protein is quite capable of replacing the meat, making quinoa grains so appealing to vegetarians. Solid vegetable protein needs as athletes, pregnant women, children and those who are forced to cut back on the amount of animal protein in the diet due to autoimmune diseases (arthritis, various allergies and so on.), And therefore need additional protein from other sources.

Lysine - the essential amino acid, which is a good source of quinoa - promotes calcium absorption, tissue healing, strengthening immunity and need for children to form bones and good growth.
Quinoa contains a lot of manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorus, there a lot of tryptophan needed to produce the body's serotonin, and a lot of high-quality fiber, both soluble and insoluble, which certainly makes the quinoa is necessary for diabetes heart disease and hypertension.

Studies have shown that quinoa saves and migraine headaches, breast cancer, asthma, helps maintain healthy cardiac system, reduces the risk of diabetes.

During the absence of gluten (gluten and people) quinoa loved allergies.

If you're still not impressed, we hasten to inform you that the National American Space Agency (NASA) is also included quinoa in Sells (Controlled Ecological Life Support System) for the supply of its long-term space flights, as this culture is a food of excellent nutritional composition.

NASA decided that in the plant world in quinoa has no competitors on the content of nutrients.
Although in 1955 the American researcher Philip White wrote that, despite the fact that there is no product that can fully satisfy the human need for nutrients, quinoa is the closest to that goal in the plant and animal world. It is unlikely that many Americans will remember this story, but today, when the world has rediscovered quinoa, his words are replicated in all the media.