Have you tried quinoa yet?

Have you tried quinoa yet?

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Remember when we puzzled over how to pronounce quinoa? Was that kwin-o-ah? Or kwee no-ah? The ancient grain, or rather seed (pronounced keen-wa for anyone still wondering) had a year dedicated to it in 2013 by the United Nations. That piqued a lot of interest in its nutritional and eating qualities to say the least.



UN declared 2013 International Year of the Quinoa

It’s a highly nutritious grain and a cool-climate crop that could have played a more important role feeding a hungry world, had rice, wheat and corn not predominated. But in 2013 quinoa, (pronounced KEEN-wah), dubbed one of the “lost crops of the Incas,” or “poor man’s crop” could begin a comeback after centuries of relative

Keen on quinoa? Growers wanted

From the high Andes to the Canadian Prairies, quinoa could be the next little seed to hit the province

Once a largely obscure Andean seed, quinoa has made in-roads into Canadian pantries, but is having difficulty taking root on Canadian farms. “Right now we don’t really turn down any interested growers, the challenge is still getting enough interested growers,” said Michael Dutcheshen, general manager of Saskatoon-based Northern Quinoa Corporation, a processor and distributer of