An update on the nutritional profiles of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), amaranth (Amaranthus spp.), and chia (Salvia hispanica L.), three key species with the potential to contribute to food security worldwide
One of the major challenges facing the world nowadays is to ensure enough access tohealthy food for a growing population. Under this food scenario, it should be noted thatincreasing food production is as important as improving its nutritional quality. Thus, dif-ferent agronomy research and innovatio...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720784 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720784 https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jsf2.93 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Amaranthus chia nutritional properties quinoa seeds Biología y Biomedicina / Biología |
| Resumo: | One of the major challenges facing the world nowadays is to ensure enough access tohealthy food for a growing population. Under this food scenario, it should be noted thatincreasing food production is as important as improving its nutritional quality. Thus, dif-ferent agronomy research and innovation programs have pursued food security throughthe increase in the quantity and nutritional quality of plant-based foods. One key aspectin this respect is to increase agrobiodiversity by expanding the cultivation of underuti-lized highly nutritious crops such as chia, quinoa, or amaranth. The outstanding nutri-tional value of these crops resides in the compositional characteristics of their seeds,which include the presence of significant levels (and a good balance) of proteins, essen-tial amino acids, lipids, and other components such as phenols, minerals, fiber, or vita-mins, all contributing to support nutritious diets that also has health benefits such as theprevention of cardiovascular diseases. All of them, chia, amaranth, and quinoa, are con-sidered emerging crops outside their center of origin (which is mainly located in SouthAmerica), and their cultivation has been expanded worldwide in the last decade. Thisreview mainly highlights recent knowledge about the nutritional characteristics of thesethree Latin American crops, with the aim of providing an updated information regardingthe compositional profiles of their seeds |
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