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Find out about what we've been up to, useful tips and info on how eating quinoa as part of a healthy diet helps prevent diabetes.

Find out about what we've been up to, useful tips and info on how eating quinoa as part of a healthy diet helps prevent diabetes.

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Awards Galore! Three Great Taste Awards

Three Great Taste Awards We’ve been putting a lot of work into our brand this year and we are so delighted to announce that we have won three new Great Taste Awards. This brings our Award tally since our launch to a total of 18 Awards, which is pretty amazing. You don’t have to just take our word for it when we say our products taste fab, as the judges comments highlight – healthy doesn’t mean boring. Our winning products were the following and here are a few snippets from what the various judges had to say. Just to be clear...

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Quinola is the best quinoa of Peru. How so?

Quinola was voted Peru’s best quinoa at Mistura, Peru’s premier gastronomic event. And they should know as the Peruvians eat the most quinoa in the world! But how, you ask? Surely, quinoa is quinoa. Well no. There are over 3000 different varieties of quinoa growing in the Andes, as the crop has never been properly selectively bred like wheat, rice or corn (where genetic diversity has taken a big hit as a result). So much in the same way that you get awful rice you can get some pretty sludgy quinoa. With Quinola Mothergrain you can be assured of the...

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Winner of 4 Great Taste Gold Stars

No, we haven’t invented a new platinum level award, but have received 4 separate awards from the Great Taste judges. All three of our dry quinoa products was awarded a gold star, and our Pearl & Black Quinoa Express mix was awarded a gold star as well. Great Taste awards are given by a panel of 10 judges from across the food industry, who blind taste all the submitted products (nearly 10,000 this year, so there was a lot of competition in the field). John Farrand, the organiser of Great Taste, said: “To win four 1-star Great Taste awards across...

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Single Estate Quinoa

All the best coffees come from single estates. All the best wines come from specific vineyards. And so it is with quinoa. Most of the quinoa you find on the market is blended from wherever the last container came in from, with variable quality as a result. Ours is all sourced from a single estate: Coopain Cabana and their 500 small hold farmers. The furthest farmer from the cooperative’s central processing plant is less than 10 miles away. Which is why we can say with confidence that you will be enjoying Peru’s finest quinoa, recognised at the Mistura Gastronomic Fair...

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