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Chenopodium quinoa is believed to have been domesticated in the Peruvian Andes from wild or weed populations of the same species. [26] There are non-cultivated quinoa plants (Chenopodium quinoa var. melanospermum) that grow in the area it is cultivated; these may either be related to wild predecessors, or they could be descendants of cultivated ...
Food species comprise spinach (Spinacia oleracea), Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus), several Chenopodium species (quinoa, kañiwa, fat hen), orache (Atriplex spp.), and epazote (Dysphania ambrosioides). The name is Greek for goosefoot, the common name of a genus of plants having small greenish flowers.
Chenopodium is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoot, which occur almost anywhere in the world. [3] It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classification systems, notably the widely used Cronquist system, separate it and its relatives as Chenopodiaceae, [4] but this leaves the rest of the ...
Quinoa is native only to a relatively small region of the Andes mountains in South America. Corn/Maize [2] (Zea †) Quinoa [3] (Chenopodium) Several (though not all) species of amaranth [4] Some species of wild rice ; Indian Corn (Flint Corn)
Chenopodium formosanum is known in the Paiwan language as djulis. In Chinese it is known as 紅藜 (simplified 红藜, literally "red goosefoot", Mandarin hónglí). It is also known as red quinoa. [1] Note that the name "red goosefoot" is also used for the related species Oxybasis rubra.
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed . Common names include lamb's quarters , melde , goosefoot , wild spinach and fat-hen , though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium , for ...
Quinoa oil is a vegetable oil extracted from germ of the Chenopodium quinoa, an Andean cereal and has been cultivated since at least 3000 B.C. [1] Quinoa itself has attracted considerable interest as a source of protein, but the oil derived from quinoa is of interest in its own right.
Species of the Chenopodium family in the Inca cuisine were Chenopodium pallidicaule, also known as cañihua, and Chenopodium quinoa, or quinoa, due to their ability to survive in the high altitudes of the Andes. Quinoa has grown popular in the modern world beyond the Andes due to its adaptability, nutritional value, and many uses. [12]