Browsing Manuscritos by Subject "Quinoa"

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    • Origen, producción y uso de pseudocereales 

      Di Fabio, Amanda (2018)
      La Ingeniera Agrónoma Amanda Di Fabio propone incorporar el desarrollo de quínoa en la provincia de Mendoza, para ser utilizado como importante fuente de nutrientes fundamentales en la alimentación de los niños. Además lo presenta en este Power Point como un grano de alto potencial nutritivo, de fácil desarrollo y el cual contribuye a la seguridad alimentaria en países, donde la población no tiene acceso a fuentes de proteína, o poseen limitaciones en la producción de alimentos.

    • Variation of the nutritional composition of quinoa according to the processing used 

      Mezzatesta, Pablo; Farah, Silvia; Di Fabio, Amanda; Raimondo, Emilia (, 2020)
      In Mendoza, Argentina, quinoa is grown with a very good yield, and its consumption is becoming widespread. It is consumed as a seed, flour, expanded, sprout (germinated) and activated (hydrated). The popular belief is that all these forms have the same nutritional contribution. Taking into account this belief, the objective of this work was to determine the nutritional composition of the different preparations. The same batch of quinoa seeds was processed as flour, expanded, hydrated and sprout. It was analyzed by triplicate, applying conventional laboratory techniques. For the statistical ...