@article{article_289832, title={QUINOA: NUTRITIONAL AND ANTI-NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS}, journal={Food and Health}, volume={2}, pages={104–111}, year={2016}, DOI={10.3153/JFHS16011}, url={https://izlik.org/JA24XF32PY}, author={Demir, Mustafa Kürşad and Kılınç, Mehmet}, keywords={Quinoa,Gluten-free product,Nutrition}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-gb">Due to changing dietary habits
in every passing day, cereal and cereal products have hold an important place
in nutrition of the world population. However, the cereals such as wheat, rye,
barley, triticale and oat and their processed products have caused some health
problems in humans. Celiac disease which is one of such health problems is an
intestinal malabsorption due to sensitivity against gluten and the most
important feature of this disease is its being the only lifelong food allergy.
For this reason, it is admitted as the most prevalent genetic disease based on
nutrition. In order to overcome this problem, some gluten-free and starch based
food products have been generally introduced to the market; however, these
products are starch based with low nutritive value. Therefore, it is important
to enrich such products for individuals who are obliged to be nourished by
gluten-free diet. A special interest has been recently paid to quinoa, a
gluten-free product. Quinoa is a pseudo-cereal product providing significant
benefits in terms of human health since it contains high biological valued
proteins, low-glycemic indexed carbohydrates and again fitosteroids, omega-3
and 6 fatty acids. When compared to other common cereal varieties, they are
known to have better nutritional compositions. Especially, they contain high
amounts of unsaturated essential oils and essential aminoacids. In addition,
they contain adequate and balanced amounts of some micro-nutritional compounds
such as mineral substances, vitamins and bioactive compounds. Furthermore, they
are a significant source of dietary fibers.  </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={3}