Amaranth may soon join quinoa, chia seeds and goji berries in the pantheon of ancient "superfoods" enjoying a much-deserved resurgence. Just as quinoa was a sacred "mother grain" to the Incas, so ...

Welcome to Out of the Kitchen, our ongoing exploration of the relationships that build and sustain the food industry. This year, we’re traveling the country to look at how sustainability has become a ...

Long before Mexico knew modern corn, its people dedicated another far more ancient grain to their war god, Hummingbird. Each year a tribute to the Aztec king Montezuma filled 18 imperial Aztec ...

Palmer amaranth, aka careless-weed: Topping out at up to 10 feet tall, mechanical cultivation, flame-weeding and hand-pulling are the only effective means of control ...

Long before Mexico knew modern corn, its people dedicated another far more ancient grain to their war god, Hummingbird. Each year a tribute to the Aztec king Montezuma filled 18 imperial Aztec ...

Consider it the cure for quinoa burnout. Amaranth is super-unique in that it has two parts that taste good: leaves and seeds. When people say “amaranth,” they tend to mean seeds, i.e. little pinpricks ...

EARLVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- A relatively obscure grain could make unproductive land profitable. Amaranth, a food staple of the Aztec civilization in Mexico in the 1400s, can be grown in almost any soil ...

It’s tall and stately, with flowers ranging in color from golden to hot pink, leafy and bold stalks with red, yellow and pink veins. The amaranth plant is a beauty to behold. Amaranth is an ancient ...

Amaranth was once a food of Aztec royalty. It’s a sweet, high-fiber grain that also contains the most Lysine (an amino acid) of all the grains, including quinoa. It’s also a potentially effective anti ...