What to think of QUINOA?

Traditionally grown in the Andes region, quinoa got popular in 1993 when NASA recommended it as food to be taken to missions to space.

Its price increased by 3 times until the 2013 peak, and is controversial:

✳️ farmers in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador would have a better income
✳️ but local populations could no longer afford it
✳️ in the end economists agree that the boom happened too soon for Latin America populations to get a positive impact from it

💡Advice: if you want to eat healthy but don’t support economic and social imbalance, eat local as much as you can. Left on the photo is a Switzerland-grown quinoa!