sprouting and raw quinoa?

kellyne

For those of you out there using quinoa – can I just soak it and eat it or does it have to be sprouted to be ok to eat? Most of the recipes on goneraw are using sprouted quinoa from what I can tell. I’m a bit confused on this whole sprouting issue to be honest. I’ve been soaking and using raw oats and buckwheat without sprouting but perhaps I should be? Are these things still nutritious without the sprouting? Sounds like a stupid question but I’m just not at all clear on this so any thoughts would be wonderful to hear!

jah rawstafari

1sweetpea – oooo – I am really interested to know the answer to your question too. This has happened to me many times (with my garbanzos too and it always kinda freaks me out. InhHigh school I took a microbiology class and we would grow various’ life forms’ on petri dishes. One of things that would frequently show up on our swabbing was a pink hued bacteria growth…the name escapes me at the moment..but I often see it growing in parts of my shower were water sits for too long… anyway- I always wonder if its bacteria in my rinsing water that’s causing the pink/puplish hue on my sprouts….I’ve never seen conventional sprouts with this coloring. Also, I don’t have a filter on my sink and sometimes I just can’t justify using all my bottled water to rinse the beans, so I soak in filtered, but rinse with tap… hmmmmmmm