Amaranth. Sound familiar? No, not the lipstick color. Not the bedding plant, either. Or the weed, popularly known as pigweed, that is the enemy of many gardeners as well as commercial farmers. No, ...

A flowering amaranth plant. Photo by Rob Myers. Features writer {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In the 1520s, the Spanish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking to mix up your grain game? Popular options like quinoa, buckwheat, oats, and millet are excellent choices, but without ...

Close-up of tzoallis being made during a summer nutrition workshop held by Puente a la Salud, a group based in Oaxaca, Mexico, that is helping to push an amaranth comeback. An ancient Aztec staple, ...

This is part of a continuing series on the health benefits of grains you might not have heard of or tried. What It Is: - "Technically, amaranth is not a true grain. It is often called a 'pseudo-grain' ...

On a sunny Friday morning in San Pablo Huitzo, a town in the Valles Centrales region of Oaxaca, Mexico, a half-dozen women are gathered for a workshop on making alegrías, a healthy, granola bar-like ...