Quinoa gives me such gut-wrenching pain that I can no longer convince myself to eat it. My girlfriend is vegetarian which is why I have such great armchair-sci

Quinoa gives me such gut-wrenching pain that I can no longer convince myself to eat it. My girlfriend is vegetarian which is why I have such great armchair-scientific experience in describing this potentially-foul food. I've been told to wash the Quinoa to remove the saponin from it before cooking, which worked on occasion. But when you get that gut-pain from eating Quinoa even once it's an incredibly strong deterrent from ever trying it again. Having eaten razorblades is a pretty accurate description of how I can feel for hours after having eaten even a small portion of Quinoa. That could be one reason why it isn't taking over the globe. Because some people can get violently ill after eating it. Last I heard, nobody has a chance of developing horribly painful symptoms after eating rice.