Great Value Organic White Quinoa, 32 oz

I bought a bag of quinoa years ago from another retailer and found bugs in it. That soured me on the idea of eating quinoa, but decided to try it again since it's so good for you, affordable, and tastes good. This Great Value brand has been perfect every time and very versatile. Good cooked with cut up prunes or goji berries or pineapple or made with broccoli or other vegetables, for example.

I've been eating rice my whole life, so I never had Quinoa. I recently switched rice to this because I did not know rice had so much arsenic in it. This quinoa is delicious, but it has a very strange taste to it. A little research online and found out this is very common in quinoa. I did let it sit in water, and rinse, clean everything good, but still I find this to have a type of taste that tastes like soap or something?. online it says saponin. I added a bunch of seasonings, and salt free chicken broth that made everything taste very similar to the rice that I used to eat. I'm actually really liking this more than rice now, but I prefer the white, red an black version and I found the taste a lot better. It has more of a chewier texture, but I guess it has less of the saponin so that's probably why I find the taste better. I do love both though, I guess I'm still trying to get used to the taste compared to rice. I highly recommend!