Content of fat, vitamins and minerals in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd) seeds

The seed of an important food crop, indigenous to the Andean region of Latin America, called quinoa (Chenopdium quinoa, Willd) is a good source of thiamin (0·4mg100 g), folic acid (78·1 mg100 g), and vitamin C (16·4 mg100 g). The seeds contain twice as much γ-tocopherol (5·3 mg100 g) as α-tocopherol (2·6 mg100 g) and larger amounts of calcium (874 mg/kg), phosphorus (5·3 g/kg), magnesium (2·6 mg100 g), iron (81 mg/kg), zinc (36 mg/kg), potassium...