Consumers are more focused to adopt healthy life styles and appropriate nutritional habits. From the variety of plants which can be potentially used for human nutrition, today fewer and fewer species are used due to elevated risk of health related problems. Results from a number of recent studies have highlighted the need for an improvement in the nutritional quality of cereal based gluten free products. In order to meet the demands of the growing population new food stuffs are being continuously investigated with the aim to improve the diet and conduce to a better health state. At present attention of researchers is more focused towards the exploitation of alternative crops or underutilized species for multifarious uses. Interest in the pseudo cereals has aroused considerably due to their excellent nutritional, phenolic and phytochemical profile and their use in development of gluten free products. Moreover, the amino acid profile and nutritional properties like essential amino acid index, biological value, protein efficiency ratio and nutritional index of pseudo cereals are higher as compared to conventional cereals like wheat rice and maize. Recent studies have indicated that phenolics present in pseudo cereals have several health benefits like prevention and reduction of oxidative stress, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, commercialization of these pseudo cereals would help to combat various health related issues, and also the availability of palatable pseudo cereal containing gluten-free products would represent advance towards ensuring an adequate intake of nutrients in subjects with celiac disease.

消费者更加注重采用健康的生活方式和适当的营养习惯。由于健康相关问题的风险增加，如今从可潜在地用于人类营养的多种植物中，使用的物种越来越少。最近的许多研究结果表明，有必要改善无谷蛋白的谷类食品的营养质量。为了满足不断增长的人口的需求，正在不断研究新食品，以改善饮食并有助于改善健康状况。目前，研究人员的注意力更多地集中在为多种用途而开发替代作物或未充分利用的物种上。由于其优良的营养，对假谷物的兴趣引起了极大的关注，酚和植物化学特征及其在开发无麸质产品中的用途。此外，假谷物的氨基酸特征和营养特性（如必需氨基酸指数，生物学价值，蛋白质效率比和营养指数）比常规谷物（如小麦大米和玉米）更高。最近的研究表明，伪谷物中存在的酚类物质具有多种健康益处，例如预防和减少氧化应激，抗癌，抗糖尿病，抗炎，抗高血压和预防心血管疾病。因此，这些假谷物的商业化将有助于解决各种与健康有关的问题，