Nutritional Aspects of the Chia Seed
Chia - Ancestral rediscovered seed (Available only in Spanish).
Chia was one of the four main crops of Aztec civilization. After Spanish conquest, chia was submited to 500 years of darkness, especially for its close relationship with religius cults of the natives...See the complete monograph (*.PDF document)
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Bibliography
Scientific and technical bibliography about chía: Period 1995-2009
* Ayerza, R (Jr). 2009. The seed`s protein and oil content, fatty acid composition and growing cicly length of a single genotype of chia (Salvia hispanica L.) as affected by enviromental factors. J. Ole Sci. 58, (7) 347-354
* Ayerza, R (Jr) and Coates, W. 2009. Some quality components of four chia (Salvia hispanica L.) genotypes grown under tropical coastal desert ecosystem conditions. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences...