We cannot add onto the original g’zeiras which chazal instituted hundreds of years ago and is now a minhag to askenazik Jews. That is why Reb Moshe held that peanuts were not kitniyos, nor is potato starch; both unknown to the askenazik poskim during the kitniyos g’zeira era. And that is why poskim don’t proclaim additional chumras on the kitnios g’zeira and ban quinoa because afterall it’s Pesach.
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