The Quinoa Grain (“Chenopodium Quinoa Willd”), specie of high nutritional value, is cultivated in the Andean Region since thousands of years, where it is one of the most important foods with high quality. It has a great resistance against the principal a biotic adverse factors such as there are drought, icy winds and saline soils, which affect the production of the Andean cultivations.

The importance of the Royal Quinoa in the nourishment of the human being is found in its contents of minerals, vitamins and in the quality of proteins, minerals Ca & Fe, in the vitamins B1 & Riboflavine. Only the oats are bigger in their contents of fats and phosphorus. The Quinoa contains among other substances aminoacids, isoleucine, lysine, phenil-alanine, tyrosine & valine higher than any other cereal by nitrogen unit.