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COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 431-445Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.12135
Keywords
biological activity; cereal products; dietary supplements; nutritional quality; quinoa
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- U.S. Fulbright Student IIE Fellowship
- Robert and Lillian White-Stevens Fellowship from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences of Rutgers University
- New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
- SENESCYT-Ecuador (Beca)
- Proyecto Biomasa
- Gobierno Regional de Tarapaca
- Fondo de Innovacion para la Competitividad (FIC)
- FONDECYT [11140915]
- Universidad de Las Americas-Quito
- Botanical Research Center Pilot Program from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) [5P50AT002776-08 S12-50318, P50AT002776-01]
- Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
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Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd., Amaranthaceae) is a grain-like, stress-tolerant food crop that has provided subsistence, nutrition, and medicine for Andean indigenous cultures for thousands of years. Quinoa contains a high content of health-beneficial phytochemicals, including amino acids, fiber, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, saponins, phytosterols, phytoecdysteroids, phenolics, betalains, and glycine betaine. Over the past 2 decades, numerous food and nutraceutical products and processes have been developed from quinoa. Furthermore, 4 clinical studies have demonstrated that quinoa supplementation exerts significant, positive effects on metabolic, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal health in humans. However, vast challenges and opportunities remain within the scientific, agricultural, and development sectors to optimize quinoa's role in the promotion of global human health and nutrition. Practical Application This work can be used to identify specific research studies necessary to further understand the role that quinoa and its individual chemical constituents play in human health. The information presented also highlights open avenues for technological innovation and quinoa product improvement within the industrial sector.
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