The revival of Amaranth as a third-millennium food.
The article deals with the importance and advantages of the amaranth plant - a genus of herbs of the family Amarantaceae. Amaranth, highly nutritional pseudocereal and traditional american crop has good food potential value. Amaranth grain doesn't contain gluten. The high content of quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids is one of its advantages. It is also a carrier of a very valuable fibre and good source of squalene.
Department of Military Hygiene, University of Defence, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. pavlik@pmfhk.cz
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D027721:Amaranthus / Q000737:chemistry*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000737:chemistry*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009753:Nutritive Value