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Selects: The Quinoa Revolution!

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

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Quinoa is a trendy food, right alongside kale and anything else farm to table. But it's really an ancient grain. Although it's not exactly a grain at all. Technically it's a pseudo-cereal. But it is tasty and nutritious, a true superfood. Learn all about the food with the funny name in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapter 1: What is quinoa and why is it popular?

479.969 - 483.81 Josh

You could make cinnamon old shoes and put them in a cereal box and it'd be good.

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484.671 - 490.573 Chuck

But quinoa technically is a pseudo cereal. It comes from the goosefoot plant.

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490.713 - 495.335 Josh

Right. That's why it's not a cereal. Cereal is a grain that comes from a grass.

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496.295 - 498.256 Josh

And goosefoot's not a grass. It's a plant.

498.436 - 507.84 Chuck

No, and it looks kind of weedy. And as we'll see later when you're cultivating it, it looks alarmingly like some other weeds. Weed weed. It can be tricky. With a capital W.

509.144 - 519.533 Josh

Oh, it looks like marijuana? A little bit. From afar? Huh. That brilliant red and brilliant yellow? Isn't that what marijuana looks like when it's growing?

519.833 - 535.367 Chuck

I'm not sure you know what marijuana is. Huh. I'll show you a picture sometime. Okay. Okay. It is labeled a whole grain, though, because it's actually, it fits the whole grain definition because it is the whole grain seed which you're eating. Okay.

535.427 - 558.661 Josh

Yeah. Like when you talk about grains, usually, again, you're talking about these things from grasses like wheat, right? Yeah. And there's such a thing as whole grain wheat. But once we process something, once we mill it or – Shell it. Smack it on the bottom, whatever you do to them, you're actually removing certain parts of the grain, right? So with like enriched white flour –

Chapter 2: How long has quinoa been cultivated?

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Chapter 4: How do you cook quinoa?

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1005.33 - 1019.618 Chuck

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1019.918 - 1033.308 Josh

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1033.469 - 1041.595 Chuck

That's right. And if you get cold feet, then you got to try those slippers that they have. They're warm because they have that fluffy, sharp aligning and the marshmallow-like cushioning. Really good stuff.

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