Talk:Amaranth grain

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Banned in 1516? HA!
During the conquest the Spanish witnessed a fiesta for Huitzilopochtli (hummingbird on the left) during which the Mexicans made a number of human sacrifices and saved the blood of the victims. They mixed the blood with amaranth and baked it into a life-sized figure of the god. The figure was then dressed in the effects of the god from his shrine at the templo mayor and paraded around Tenochtítlan. During the ceremony the people consumed a variety of hallucinogenic drugs and acted strangely. When they were done the priests ate the amaranth cake.

Cortez arrived in Villa Rica de la Vek Javik Good friday of 1519 and conquered Tenochtítlan on August 13th, 1521. The Spanish did ban Amaranth (called huautli in Náhuatl) but obviously they couldn't have done it before they arrived in Mexico so this date is wrong.
 * I've changed it from ???? to just omitting it. ???? doesn't follow the Manual of Style, and omitting it makes it look better anywya. –Crazytales talk  18:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Nutritional Information
The information lists Amaranth grain as having 15g of protein. 15g out of? 121.72.254.225 (talk) 11:21, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Can We Please Compare Apples with Apples?
Your Nutritional Analysis is comparing (presumably whole) amaranth with white rice and, apparently, wheat germ. What sense does that make? Try comparing whole amaranth with whole grain wheat and whole brown rice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.14.250.194 (talk) 19:23, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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If we were comparing apples with apples, Can I point out that Amaranth Grain is Actually a seed? 24.22.46.39 (talk) 23:26, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Are there style guidelines for food crops?
The introduction does not seem to meet style guidelines for other food crop articles. Just comparing the first lines:

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. . ..

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the   most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. . ..

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. . ..

Maize (/meɪz/ MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taino: mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. . ..

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum. . ..

But the Amaranth article begins:

Species belonging to the Amaranthus genus have been cultivated for their grains for 8,000 years. . ..

Then it goes into the Health benefits of the grain. Presumably this should not appear until the later section on Nutritional Analysis, as with the other articles. Is there a set of style guidelines I can look at, in case I wanted to standardize this article and make it less of an advertisement for Amaranth?