In the actuality, there is an increasing trend to consume healthy/ super foods, such as Amaranth: a super crop of this millennium with high nutraceutical values. Amaranth can be considered as a "super food" because it is a gluten-free pseudo cereal that besides being a relevant source of vegetable protein, provides to the human diet, a balanced content of essential amino acids, significant amounts of calcium, dietary fiber, omega-3, omega-6, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. The aim of this mini review is to provide insights into Amaranth´s health benefits such as helps to improve nutrition and health as it is a powerful vegetable protein source adequate to fight high cholesterol, avoids chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, osteoporosis, gastric problems, bad nutrition due to gluten intolerance, diabetes among others relevant diseases. Amaranth´s brief history This pseudo cereal "Amaranthus spp." is commonly called Amaranth, its name comes from the Greek word Amaranthus that means eternal flower and it is considered as an important nutritional crop. 1 Amaranth has been included in the human diet since long time ago by the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican among other ancient civilizations. 2 The Aztecs called Amaranth "Huautli" and the Mayas named it "Xtes". In the actuality, Mexicans make Amaranth sweets calling them "Alegría" meaning happiness. Now, around the World, Amaranth is being considered as a "super crop" as more evidence comes out demonstrating that is a rich nutrient pseudo cereal as shown herein. Around the 80's, Amaranth was considered by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences like an "underexploited tropical plant with promising economic value" 3 since then, research to know more about Amaranth properties has increased in order to gain insights into its nutritional and agronomic values. 4 Amaranth can be easily recognized among other crops as each plant has an "immortal colorful flower" that based in our own experience, contains around 1Kg of seeds as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 (A) Amaranthus hypochondriacus plant and (B) Amaranth seeds. Nutritional properties: Amaranth is becoming to be a super food as its composition includes high quality of carbohydrates, dietary fiber, lipids as omega-3 and omega-6, essential amino acids and other important constituents, such as squalene, tocopherols, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, phytates, vitamins and minerals. Amaranth´s nutritional composition: Amaranthus spp. belongs to Amaranthaceae family and produces a pseudo-cereal grain. Amaranth seeds contain significant amounts of high-quality proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, as shown in Figure 2 & Table 1. An important nutritional fact is that besides containing a high amount of protein, Amaranth´s seeds help to have a balanced protein

Quality assessment of red bell pepper dices preserved through batch dehydration introducing tempering cycles were performed in this work. The parameters considered were: the percentages of ascorbic acid and final antioxidant activity retention, as well as the influence of calcium chloride on diffusivity and colour values. Although, a similar final moisture content was reached through different red bell pepper dehydration processes, but the one with tempering cycles had better qualities than those without tempering. Ascorbic acid and final antioxidant activity retention showed higher values and so were colour intensities compared to control samples in all cases. In respect to the effective diffusivity coefficients, there was an increment as the calcium chloride concentration increased. As of the treatments with tempering cycles, the best scheme was 15 min drying time and 30 min tempering time at 60°C.