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Abstract

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) and chia (Salvia hispanica) are essential traditional crops with excellent nutritional properties. Quinoa is known for its high and good quality protein content and nine essential amino acids vital for an individual’s development and growth, whereas chia seeds contain high dietary fiber content, calories, lipids, minerals (calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, and zinc), and vitamins (A and B complex). Chia seeds are also known for their presence of a high amount of omega-3 fatty acids. Both quinoa and chia seeds are gluten-free and provide medicinal properties due to bioactive compounds, which help combat various chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic diseases such as cancer. Quinoa seeds possess phenolic compounds, particularly kaempferol, which can help prevent cancer. Many food products can be developed by fortifying quinoa and chia seeds in different concentrations to enhance their nutritional profile, such as extruded snacks, meat products, etc. Furthermore, it highlights the value-added products that can be developed by including quinoa and chia seeds, alone and in combination. This review focused on the recent development in quinoa and chia seeds nutritional, bioactive properties, and processing for potential human health and therapeutic applications.

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Title
Nutritional and Functional New Perspectives and Potential Health Benefits of Quinoa and Chia Seeds
Author
Agarwal, Aparna 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rizwana 2 ; Abhishek Dutt Tripathi 3 ; Kumar, Tarika 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sharma, Kanti Prakash 5 ; Singh Patel, Sanjay Kumar 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Food & Nutrition and Food Technology, Lady Irwin College, Sikandra Road, New Delhi 110001, India; [email protected] 
 Department of Food Technology, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Sector-2, Dwarka, New Delhi 110075, India 
 Department of Dairy Science and Food Technology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India 
 Department of Environmental Studies, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002, India 
 Department of Nutrition Biology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh 123031, India 
 Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea 
First page
1413
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20763921
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2842912508
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.