Quinoa and peanuts, are they relatives?

[Chandra]

HAd my fist serving of quinoa today and I found it really good but with a slight peanut like test. Ds is allergic to peanut and soya, and reacts to lentils and most beans (an extension of the peanut-soya allergy I believe...), do you know what kind of seed (if a seed) is quinoa?

Or, if you have a very allergic child to peanut or soya, is the child OK with Quinoa?

test? taste even

I think it's a grain.

Thanks Edam, what's the difference between grains and pulses (So many years since I studied that at school

Hi - only just seen this post so sorry a bit late in replying.

But my ds is allergic to soya and when I suggested quinoa to the dietician she told me to avoid it. Don't quite know why but I'm following her advise.

HTH,
Lucy

[science hat on]

grains and pulses are both seeds of plants
grains (or cereals) are monocotyledonous (ie the seeds don't split easily in two) and come from grasses. Include wheat, rice, oats, barley, millet.
pulses are dicotyledonous (ie the seed splits in two easily) and come from leguminous plants. Include beans, peas, soya, lentils.

Quinoa is technically neither, (dicotyledonous but neither leguminous nor from a grass) and is classed as a 'pseudo-cereal'.

quinoa is related to spinach it sys on the box....

oh, and peanuts are from a leguminous plant, hence techincally a pulse too.

did I read that somewhere a peanut is not actually a nut but it is a bean?

yep - well, a pulse at least

Oops, just seen the new replies, thanks.

I guess that it would be better to avoid it then. It seems to have enough links to soya, peanut and beans for DS to react to it