Red Quinoa Seed - 1Kg

What is red quinoa?/span>

Red quinoas is a pseudocereal from the Andean province very nutritious and has great value in vegetable proteins, this is a gluten-free seed and full of carbohydrates, to mention a few, we have the isoleucine, lysine, leucine, methionine,phenylalanine,threonine, thetryptophan, and valine.

It was considered by the FAO(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) as the perfect and unique food.It also has more minerals than other cereals and grasses.

Only with this information do you realize how important these grains are, which were studied and recognized as fundamental foods for human life. And it is that despite the fact that there are infinities of grains in the world that are also rich in proteins, they cannot be compared with quinoas, their proteins surpass those of other grains.

Differences between red quinoa and white quinoa

Both the red quinoa variety and the white quinoa have a large amount of protein and fiber. Although they are the same grain, there is a slight nutritional difference between them. And those are:

Nutritional Comparison

They both have170 calories for a 1/4 cup serving of raw quinoa. They also have about the same amount of fat per serving, with 2 grams for red quinoa and 2.5 grams for white quinoa. The carbohydrate that both have is also similar, red quinoa has 32 grams per serving and white quinoa 31 grams.

A.MThese varieties of quinoa are excellent sources of vitamins B-9, B-1, and B-6, as well as iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc, but red quinoa is a better source of vitamin B-2, with 15% of the Daily Value per serving, based on a 2000 calorie daily diet.

TheRed quinoa has 6 g of protein per serving, while white quinoa has only 5 grams per serving. This equates to about 12 and 10 percent of the daily value for protein, respectively, in a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.