07/15/2025
Amaranth (Huauntquilitl or Amaranthus cruentus ) is one of the oldest known domesticated crops of North America Found in coxcatlan cave in tehuacan, Mexico with the seeds dating around 6,000bc along with beans, roots, grass seed, millet, cactus, and several assortments of leaves from a precolumbian native society which may have came from an even more ancient civilization. Amaranth is high quality starch, and has a higher protein than most grains and cereals, an amino acids which are nutritional building blocks for growth, mental energy, alertness, creativity, and physical health for your survival. A complex seed being one of the smallest in size compared to other grains but is one of the largest in nutritional content. The human body is a sensitive and complex mechanism, we need an a series of amino acids to convert consumed protein into proteins the body can use. Without the proper amino balance the system begins to cannibalize its own protein reserves instead absorb those that are entering that delicate and complex digestive mechanism.
Amaranth grain is 75-87 percent protein (corn 44, whole wheat 56.9 , soybean 68 and cows milk 72.2!) and rich in amino acid lysine and other sulfur containing aminos that fit the complex pattern needed to make the entire subtle mechanism work efficiently on the body’s behalf. Best nutritional way to eat amaranth is to pop the grain along side meat and wheat, since they are rich in the few aminos lacked by the amaranth. Combined together can move close to 100 percent protein mark that nutritionalist set there standard as. Grain amaranth is high in calcium (3 1/2 oz of grain have more protein than a glass of milk)
