Search for: [Abstract = "Cereals and cereal\-based foods have been recognized as one of the major constituents of a healthy diet. Their significance in human nutrition is best reflected in the position they occupy \(especially unrefined products\) at the bottom of the food pyramid. Pseudocereals, such as amaranth and quinoa that I examined, are poorly known in Poland. Research in amaranth \(Amaranthus cruentus\) and quinoa \(Chenopodium quinoa\), in Poland and worldwide, is rather scarce and mostly conducted by researchers from South America. It is due to the fact that these cereals have been the staple foods for the people of the continent for thousands of years, and thus, they have been of key importance to its successive civilizations. Neither amaranth nor quinoa is classified as true cereal in taxonomy, since they belong to the class of dicotyledons, unlike true cereals which are classified as monocotyledons. In accordance with the available data, seeds of amaranth and quinoa have high nutritional values, which are attributed to higher contents of proteins \(including essential amino acids\) than those of wheat, rye, and oat seeds, and some unsuturated fatty acids. In\-vitro tests in pseudocereals were aimed at assessing the antioxidant potential of their seeds and very little known sprouts as an example of the so called new vegetables. In\-vitro tests were carried out by three methods\: FRAP, ABTS and DPPH a"]
