Pseudocereal

Quinoa is not a grass. Its seeds have been eaten for 6000 years.

Pseudocereals are non-grasses that are used in much the same way as cereals (true cereals are grasses). Their seed can be ground into flour and otherwise used as cereals. Examples of pseudocereals are amaranth (Love-lies-bleeding, red amaranth, Prince-of-Wales-feather), quinoa, and buckwheat.^[1]

Common pseudocereals

References

Cereals and pseudocereals Cereals Gramineae   Barley   Fonio   Job's tears   Maize   Millets   Oats   Rice   Rye   Sorghum   Teff   Triticale   Zizania Wheat (Triticum)   Bread   Durum   Khorasan Red Fife Norin 10 Winter Farro   Einkorn   Emmer   Spelt Pseudocereals Polygonaceae   Buckwheat   Tartary buckwheat Amaranthaceae Amaranth   A. caudatus   A. cruentus   A. hypochondriacus   Celosia Chenopodiaceae   Quinoa   Pitseed Goosefoot   Qañiwa Lamiaceae   Chia Acacia Wattleseed Capparaceae Hanza See also Triticeae Neolithic founder crops Neolithic Revolution History of agriculture Natufian culture Fertile Crescent Tell Abu Hureyra Tell Aswad Cereal cultivation History (french) Domestication Green Revolution Genetic engineering Selective breeding Crop wild relative