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A quick search revealed that quinoa is between £4.50 and £8 a kilo in the UK and brown rice is £1-£4 (depending on quality).

To the rice you could just add some bran (£2/kilo, but you don't need much) and another, cheap source of protein to make it similar to quinoa's nutirtional values.



Which is great, as long as you're able to tolerate gluten. I know two people with Celiac disease, and quinoa is a godsend to them.


I wonder what the real price of quinoa is, before this "superfood" bollocks got to it?


The Wikipedia article on quinoa [0] claims that

  Between 2006 and early 2013 quinoa crop prices have tripled.
That statement cites an article earlier this year in the Guardian [1] which links to another Guardian article [2] which doesn't have anything more specific than $4500/ton in 2013 versus $3115/ton in 2011.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa#Rising_popularity_and_cr...

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-s...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/14/quinoa-andes-bol...




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