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Question
What is pseudo cereal? Give an example.
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Solution
The term pseudo-cereal is used to describe foods that are prepared and eaten as a whole grain but are botanical outliers from grasses. Example: quinoa. It is actually a seed from the Chenopodium quinoa plant, belongs to the family Amaranthaceae.
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