How to know the quality of quinoa?

After the packaging of quinoa is opened, the good quality quinoa has a faint pine nut or pine flavor, while the poor quality quinoa has a musty or wormwood flavor.

2. Look at the particle size.

The 1000-grain weight of high-quality quinoa should be at least 3.5g, and the 1000-grain weight of high-quality quinoa should be above 4.5g. The intuitive method is to compare millet, whose diameter is 1.5 times larger than millet. Smaller than millet means poor growth environment and poor nutrients.

3. Look at the color of the texture.

The shape of quinoa seeds is oblate, and the front of good quality quinoa seeds is milky white or yellow, opaque at birth and translucent at maturity. The poor quality quinoa seeds are dark gray or black gray in front and translucent in the center, which is a kind of quinoa with poor maturity and poor nutritional composition.

As shown in the figure below,

High quality Chenopodium album

Inferior quinoa

4. Look at the lines.

The processing methods of quinoa are divided into dry method and wet method. The surface of dry-processed quinoa is covered with a thin layer of powder, because a small amount of saponin remains in the seed coat. The quinoa processed by wet method is smooth, and the saponins are basically removed. Dry quinoa is suitable for people who are willing to keep a small amount of saponins when cooking, because saponins, though bitter in taste, belong to the health-preserving components of traditional Chinese medicine and can be preserved by controlling the elutriation degree.

Quinoa is oblate, and the pale yellow circle around its side is the germ tissue rich in nutrition like a tire. Inferior quinoa has serious germ loss, poor nutrition and no nutritional activity.

5. Rinse with water.

Most of the quinoa with good quality sinks to the bottom of the water, and only a small part floats on the water. Most of the poor quality quinoa floats on the water surface, and there are impurities such as wood stalks and grass clippings, and the water soon becomes turbid.

6. Try it.

Quinoa with good quality tastes delicious. Poor quality quinoa tastes bitter and has many teeth.

Quinoa itself is an exotic species, originating in the Andes of South America, and the main producing countries are Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and other South American countries. Quinoa has been introduced and planted in China in recent years, but it has not reached the mature area in variety and technology. The quality of planted quinoa is far from the origin. There are many reasons, not only varieties, but also factors such as environmental pollution and planting altitude. The easiest way to distinguish the quality of quinoa is that the high-quality quinoa is big, full and shiny, and its color is milky white, while the inferior quinoa has small particles, incomplete depression in the middle, dark color and many broken particles.

The following is the comparison of elutriation water between Chenopodium album and some domestic quinoa, which is easy to distinguish. I hope the content is helpful to you!