Learn if you can safely eat raw quinoa, its nutritional benefits, and how to properly cook it for the best taste and health advantages.

Quinoa is a grainlike crop grown mainly for its edible seeds, and its flavor is similar to cream of wheat, but with a hint of nuttiness. Jackie Shank, undergraduate nutrition program director in the ...

These foods may be enjoyed in similar ways, but when it's quinoa vs. couscous, dietitians say there’s a clear winner in terms of health benefits.

The expression “everything old is new again” certainly rings true when it comes to grains, with a growing number of people pushing their grocery carts past modern wheat breads, cereals and crackers ...

How do you cook quinoa if you don't even know how to say it? Quinn-wah? Quinn-noah? Kin-wah? Let's put this to bed. It's KEEN-wah and the best thing since, well, the Aztecs and Incans ate it thousands ...

Every great ancient civilization produced a crop or a commodity which was central to its existence. For the Greeks it was wine and for the Romans it was wheat. A few thousand years from now ...

Today, March 27, is Whole Grains Sampling Day! Whole grains are loaded with vitamins, minerals and fiber to help keep you fuller longer and promote a healthy digestive tract. While most of us think of ...

It’s official: Quinoa has achieved cult status. The ancient Incan grain has captured the public’s imagination with its mix of nutritional superpowers, delicious flavor and rainbow colors, popping up ...

It’s official: Quinoa has achieved cult status. The ancient Incan grain has captured the public’s imagination with its mix of nutritional superpowers, delicious flavor and rainbow colors, popping up ...

A couple weeks ago I had bookmarked a recipe I thought would make a cozy and relatively easy meatless dinner: millet and cheddar pilaf with roasted vegetables. Unable to find millet in my otherwise ...

On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and deposit it nearby among the vast rows of cultivated quinoa. If that barley manages to ...