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A quick search revealed that quinoa is between £4.50 and £8 a kilo in the UK and brown rice is £1-£4 (depending on quality). To the rice you could just add som
by switch007 13y ago
A quick search revealed that quinoa is between £4.50 and £8 a kilo in the UK and brown rice is £1-£4 (depending on quality).
To the rice you could just add some bran (£2/kilo, but you don't need much) and another, cheap source of protein to make it similar to quinoa's nutirtional values.
- jffry 13y agoWhich is great, as long as you're able to tolerate gluten. I know two people with Celiac disease, and quinoa is a godsend to them.
- voltagex_ 13y agoI wonder what the real price of quinoa is, before this "superfood" bollocks got to it?
- jffry 13y agoThe Wikipedia article on quinoa [0] claims that Between 2006 and early 2013 quinoa crop prices have tripled. That statement cites an article earlier this year in the Guardian [1] which links to another Guardian article [2] which doesn't have anything more specific than $4500/ton in 2013 versus $3115/ton in 2011. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa#Rising_popularity_and_crop_value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa#Rising_popularity_and_cr... [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-s... [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/14/quinoa-andes-bolivia-peru-crop http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/14/quinoa-andes-bol...
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