Quinoa comes from the same family as Amaranthus and spinach and is a new world food like tomatoes, chillies and corn, consumed by humans for over 4000 years. Also related to Batua. Many of these foods have become popular not because we don’t like moong dal and rice but because we have a new disease or shall I say plague called diabetes from consuming too many processed foods and refined sugars. Quinoa has a far lower glycemic index than rice.