Cooking for Life: Curried Quinoa
April 9, 2010 by @MichelleRodulfo
Filed under Cooking for Life
With all of the interest surrounding quinoa , I decided to devote every Friday for the next 4 weeks to coming up with a delicious new quinoa recipe that is sure to please.
Read all about the nutritional facts about this wonder grain and tune into my YouTube video below for my latest:Curried Quinoa
What are the vitamins we can get from Quinoa?
Hi Christmas Angel:
Quinoa is filled with vitamins…have a look at what’s inside just 1 cup:
Calcium, Ca 25.5 mg
Iron, Fe 3.93 mg
Potassium, K 314.5 mg
Sodium, Na 8.93 mg
Zinc, Zn 1.4 mg
Vitamin E – mg ATE
Folate, total 20.82 mcg
Magnesium, Mg 89.25 mg
Energy 665.12 kj
Phosphorus, P 174.25 mg
Isoleucine 0.2 g
Serine 0.21 g
Proline 0.17 g
Glycine 0.29 g
Glutamic acid 0.66 g
Aspartic acid 0.41 g
Alanine 0.26 g
Histidine 0.13 g
Arginine 0.39 g
Valine 0.25 g
Manganese, Mn 0.96 mg
Copper, Cu 0.35 mg
Threonine 0.2 g
Vitamin B-12 – mcg
Vitamin B-6 0.09 mg
Niacin 1.25 mg
Riboflavin 0.17 mg
Thiamin 0.08 mg
Phenylalanine 0.23 g
Pantothenic acid 0.44 g
Leucine 0.33 g
Lysine 0.31 g
Methionine 0.11 g
Tyrosine 0.16 g
Loved your Curried Quinoa!