<story><title>Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/11/quinoa-should-be-taking-over-the-world-this-is-why-it-isnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scythe</author><text>Quinoa, famous for protein and fiber content, still contains less protein and fiber than, say, oatmeal. It&amp;#x27;s okay - hyperventilating paleo bloggers have raised concerns about saponins -- but the whole &amp;quot;superfood&amp;quot; frenzy about quinoa is just a tad off base. It&amp;#x27;s okay, not bad for you, probably better than white rice or processed food, but most of what quinoa has going for it is simply that it is real and unmodified. If it &amp;quot;took over the world&amp;quot;, it would be sweetened, boiled, extracted, and fried into chips with none of the nutritional benefits people are seeking therefrom anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/11/quinoa-should-be-taking-over-the-world-this-is-why-it-isnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>A particular concern with quinoa, given its narrow (native) growing area, and the poverty endemic to that area, is that worldwide demand for the crop has out-priced its growers&amp;#x27; and their communities&amp;#x27; ability to afford it in order to feed &lt;i&gt;themselves&lt;/i&gt;. A select few brands set aside some of each harvest specifically for that purpose (and also put some of their profits back into improving the farms, sending the farmers&amp;#x27; children to college, and that kind of thing), but so far, that&amp;#x27;s decidedly not the norm.</text></comment>