5. Phosphorus
Your body uses phosphorus hand-in-hand with calcium to help build strong bones. You have to have both the right amount of calcium and the right amount of phosphorus in order to ensure that your bones are as healthy as possible.
This is especially true with children. Luckily, quinoa provides you with 28 percent of the daily recommended allowance of phosphorus. You will commonly find phosphorus in the body as phosphate. Phosphates are extremely important when it comes to the production of energy. That’s why one of the symptoms of not getting enough phosphorus is lower energy levels.
In fact, most people would be very surprised to learn just how much their body relies on the nutrients that they get from food and how much can be affected when they do not get those nutrients. Phosphorus is no exception to this. Phosphorus is an integral part of energy production.