There have been several blogs on the advantages of quinoa’s slow release carbohydrates (or sugars) for both the sportsperson and all those wanting to avoid a mid-afternoon raid of the biscuit tin. But it wasn’t until today that anyone explained why this was the case. Jonathan, a biology wiz friend of mine kindly explained. It’s a long word, but the sugars or carbohydrates you find in quinoa are polysaccharides. Basically that means that they are long chains of sugars all stuck together. For the body to be able to digest them it has to chip of little bits of sugar...

Bruno Loubet, who earned a Michelin star as head chef at the Inn on the Park, and now has two of his own restaurants, was kind enough to name our quinoa as one of his four cupboard essentials. So I decided to pop along to his new venture, the Grain Store, near Kings Cross to say hi and see what he was rustling up with it. The Grain Store is a powerful new concept, where vegetables and grains take pride of place on the plate, with meat playing  second fiddle. This unusual reversal of roles earned him the accolade of...

On a recent trip to Dublin, I had the pleasure of popping down to Avoca’s Monkstown store to see their Quinola display. A beautifully furnished store and restaurant, that managed to make everything feel very homey. And when you are set in that type of environment everything becomes very appetising too! Thank you Avoca for trying out our new delicious and healthy Baby food range, despite the packaging being in French.

With a recent order from Estonia, you will now be able to find our products in some of the Selver supermarkets in Estonia. Just over a year from launch that will be our tenth market to which we supply our products. You won’t of course find us on every street corner, but the quality establishments of all these countries have voted with their wallets and decided to stock our range of quinoa. When customers want the best, then you have to stock Alice & Oscar’s Quinola Mothergrain! I am reliably told by an Estonian friend of mine that Selver is...