Research progress on nutritional quality of quinoa and its application in noodle processing
Quinoa,well-known as"super grain"with highly nutritional value,not only has large amount of macronutrients in-cluding proteins,carbohydrates,and lipids,but also contains a variety of functional phytochemical constituents,such as polyphe-nols,phytosterols and flavonoids.In recent years,the domestic and foreign scholars pay attention to the prominent nutrition and health functions of quinoa.Quinoa,with the characteristic of gluten-free and high dietary fiber content,can be used as an ingre-dient for making gluten-free noodle with low sugar index.The researching progress upon nutritional composition of quinoa and its processing in noodle are introduced in this paper,so as to provide reference for the development of quinoa flour food industri-alization.