quinoa caused inflammation???

[Anonymous]

The problem may be the phytic acid in the grain
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/living-with-phytic-acid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grains are bad news for humans. Avoid them. There are better things to eat

Quinoa is not a grain. It is a seed.

[Anonymous]

Try soaking the quinoa overnight before you cook it. It's supposed to lower the phytic acid levels.

[Anonymous]

Quinoa isn't a grain.

[Anonymous]

It's weird, if you enter cooked quinoa into the same Self site, the inflammation factor is NA. Maybe cooking does something to make it non-inflammatory?

[Anonymous]

I've seen someone posting inflammatory/non-inflammatory questions before. What does this even mean? THe positive/negative, various acids and oils - I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally found that quinoa caused me ALOT of inflammation ...muscles, joints, soft tissue in my extremities. My feet and my toes were very painful. It was similar to the inflammation I experience from nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes). I also have inflammation from gluten. I saw elsewhere that quinoa is rated strongly inflammatory, but not sure yet why this occurs. I think that each individual needs to find what works for them. I was really bummed that quinoa was not an option.

Ditto! I can't do nightshades, gluten... and now quinoa. I made some for myself and a friend this evening. I puffed out less than 20 minutes later... She didn't have any problem at all. Totally disappointed because I have been looking for something "starchier" for my meals and now this is no longer an option.

[Anonymous]

Quinoa has saponin on the outside, which are highly inflammatory in the gut. soak overnight and/or sear them off in a pan with a bit of olive oil before cooking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen someone posting inflammatory/non-inflammatory questions before. What does this even mean? THe positive/negative, various acids and oils - I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Same here. And I never feel anything like that with any foods (or joint pains, etc.). I don't even get heartburn. If something's horrible for my system someone needs to straight up tell me because I won't feel it.

[Anonymous]

All of the factor posts are for uncooked Quinoa. Are you supposed to eat it uncooked?

[Anonymous]

my friend is allergic to quinoa...totally happens.

[Anonymous]

I don't have celiac, but quinoa makes me feel sick. Like a slight allergic reaction. And the one time I gave it to my DD, she had a very weird allover skin rash. We don't know if it was caused by the quinoa, but I suspect it.
I think it's relatively recently that people have been eating it. Wouldn't be surprised to find out it's one of those foods that lots of people react to. I have no other food allergies.
But for people who don't react to it, it's a great replacement for higher gluten foods or empty carbs.

[Anonymous]

I used to cook and eat quinoa all the time. Then I didn't have it for a couple of years, and one day I had some (cooked by DH) and I became violently ill a few hours later. Very sick, much pain. I just figured it was a weird virus. About a year later, I had some quinoa pilaf from a local health food store and once again, violently ill. That's when I realized it was probably the quinoa. Less than a year later I was diagnosed with celiac.

I know that officially, quinoa is celiac friendly but obviously I can't digest it for some reason so I avoid it like the plague. I don't even want to find out if I still have a quinoa problem and risk being that sick again. It's not like it's all that tasty anyway. It's really pretty bland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to cook and eat quinoa all the time. Then I didn't have it for a couple of years, and one day I had some (cooked by DH) and I became violently ill a few hours later. Very sick, much pain. I just figured it was a weird virus. About a year later, I had some quinoa pilaf from a local health food store and once again, violently ill. That's when I realized it was probably the quinoa. Less than a year later I was diagnosed with celiac.

I know that officially, quinoa is celiac friendly but obviously I can't digest it for some reason so I avoid it like the plague. I don't even want to find out if I still have a quinoa problem and risk being that sick again. It's not like it's all that tasty anyway. It's really pretty bland.

That's interesting. I also big fan of the food that we are genetically predisposed to digest. I love quinoa a lot. But I grew up in the Eastern Europe and none of my grandparents ever had it. So I am trying to eat it in a limited amounts and stick to the grains that I grew up with, like buckweat, burley, rye, rice, millets, oats.

By the way, millets has similar texture to quinoa and better flavor.

[Anonymous]

By this logic, I can eat tons of white rice and wheat! I'm Indian. Yay!