El amaranth It is a cereal of Andean origin that provides a large amount of nutrients, both the plant and the grain are used. Currently it is widely used in the field of health and food, also for feeding livestock and making plastics, dyes and cosmetics.
It is an easy plant to grow because it adapts to any kind of soil and climate. If you incorporate amaranth in your diet you will be incorporating elements such as calcium, amino acids, iron, lysine, magnesium, fiber, soluble fats, vitamin A, vitamin C, proteins, minerals and starch among other things.
Some properties of amaranth
- It will help you to have better growth and development of the body and mind.
- It will help you prevent and fight anemia.
- It will help you avoid malnutrition.
- It will help you treat osteoporosis.
- It will help you to have the nutrients that your body needs.
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Just to complement the article that as such is very good, since the origin of amaranth is not merely Andean, since the Aztec and other cultures of the region of Mexico also knew, cultivated and consumed amaranth. Thanks and regards
The sacred plant of the Incas challenges the giant Monsanto
Panic among farmers in the United States. The transgenic seed transnational does not know what to do with amaranth (kiwicha) that ended up with soy crops.
Agencies
In the United States, farmers have had to abandon five thousand hectares of GM soybeans and another fifty thousand are seriously threatened.
This panic is due to a weed, amaranth (known in Peru as kiwicha) that decided to oppose the transnational Monsanto, infamous for its production and commercialization of transgenic seeds.
In 2004, an Atlanta farmer found that some amaranth shoots were resistant to the powerful herbicide Roundup. The fields victimized by this invasive weed had been planted with Roundup Ready grains, which contain a seed that has been given a gene for resistance to the herbicide.
Since then the situation has worsened and the phenomenon has spread to South Carolina and North, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri. According to a group of British scientists from the Center for Ecology and Hydrology, there has been a transfer of genes between the genetically modified plant and some undesirable herbs such as amaranth.
This finding contradicts the claims of advocates of genetically modified organisms (GMOs): a hybridization between a genetically modified plant and a non-modified plant is simply impossible.
According to the British geneticist Brian Johnson, a single cross succeeded out of several million possibilities is enough. Once created, the new plant has a huge selective advantage and multiplies rapidly. The powerful herbicide used here, Roundup, based on glyphosate and ammonium, has put enormous pressure on plants, which have further increased the speed of adaptation. Thus, apparently a herbicide resistance gene has given birth to a hybrid plant that arose from a jump between the grain that it is supposed to protect and the humble amaranth, which becomes impossible to eliminate.
The only solution is to remove the weeds by hand, as was done before, but this is no longer possible given the enormous size of the crops. In addition, being deeply rooted, these grasses are very difficult to tear off with what, simply, the lands were abandoned.
Transgenic support a boomerang effect
The English daily The Guardian published an article by Paul Brown revealing that modified genes from cereals had passed into wild plants and created a herbicide-resistant supergrain, something inconceivable to proponents of transgenic seeds.
It is amusing to note that amaranth or kiwicha, now considered a diabolical plant for genetic agriculture, is a sacred plant for the Incas. It belongs to the oldest foods in the world. Each plant produces an average of 12.000 grains per year and the leaves, richer in protein than soybeans, contain vitamins A and C, and mineral salts.
So this boomerang, returned by nature to the transnational Monsanto, not only neutralizes this predator, but installs in its domain a plant that could feed humanity in case of hunger. It supports most climates, both dry regions and monsoon areas and tropical highlands, and has no problems with insects or diseases so you will never need chemicals.
Source: La República newspaper Sunday, July 19, 2009
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