{"id":67639,"date":"2026-06-18T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/?p=67639"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:42:18","slug":"cientificos-convierten-al-chocho-en-una-apuesta-contra-la-diabetes-y-el-cambio-climatico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/cientificos-convierten-al-chocho-en-una-apuesta-contra-la-diabetes-y-el-cambio-climatico\/","title":{"rendered":"CIENT\u00cdFICOS CONVIERTEN AL CHOCHO EN UNA APUESTA CONTRA LA DIABETES Y EL CAMBIO CLIM\u00c1TICO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durante d\u00e9cadas, el chocho (Lupinus mutabilis) ocup\u00f3 un lugar modesto en ceviches, ensaladas y puestos callejeros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uvkybsuvkybsuvky-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uvkybsuvkybsuvky-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uvkybsuvkybsuvky-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uvkybsuvkybsuvky-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_uvkybsuvkybsuvky.png 1335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pocos imaginaron que ese peque\u00f1o grano andino se convertir\u00eda en una respuesta clave para los mayores desaf\u00edos del siglo XXI: alimentar a una poblaci\u00f3n creciente, mitigar el cambio clim\u00e1tico y combatir enfermedades cr\u00f3nicas. Su perfil nutricional es excepcional: 40 % de prote\u00edna vegetal, altos niveles de calcio, f\u00f3sforo, hierro y fibra diet\u00e9tica, rivalizando con los \u00absuperalimentos\u00bb globales, pero con la ventaja de ser patrimonio andino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigaciones recientes revelaron que sus compuestos bioactivos mejoran la sensibilidad a la insulina, regulan la glucosa y favorecen la salud cardiovascular, posicion\u00e1ndolo como un aliado en la diabetes tipo 2, sin sustituir tratamientos m\u00e9dicos. La innovaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 transformando su uso: bebidas vegetales, harinas enriquecidas, snacks, suplementos y alimentos funcionales ampl\u00edan su mercado y abren oportunidades para la agroindustria ecuatoriana, respondiendo a la demanda global de prote\u00edna sostenible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durante d\u00e9cadas, el chocho (Lupinus mutabilis) ocup\u00f3 un lugar modesto en ceviches, ensaladas y puestos callejeros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-locales","category-portada-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67641,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67639\/revisions\/67641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmercuriomanta.ec\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}