Can quinoa slash risk of diabetes?

QUINOA could help slash the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study found.

People over 65 who replaced carb-rich foods such as pasta, cereal and potatoes with quinoa for four weeks saw a reduced spike in their blood sugar after eating.

The nine people in the Open University of Catalonia study, published in the journal Nutrients, all had pre-diabetes – blood sugar high enough to put them on the brink of type 2 diabetes.

But Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic med icine at the University of Glasgow, called for caution: ‘This is an interesting pilot study but is not a randomised trial, so we can’t know quinoa reduces people’s blood sugar after meals.’