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Quinoa
Although it is used in the same way as many kinds of cereal, it is not one of the true cereals, it belongs to the group of pseudo-cereals. This plant is an old cultural crop originating from the Andes mountains in Bolivia, Peru and Chile, where it was domesticated and 5,000 years ago it was a food of the Incas living on mountain plateaus and hilly valleys. The term "quinoa" means "mother grain" in the Inca language, with the colonization of Europeans declining, its cultivation being replaced…