Buckwheat, also known as triticale, wheat, buckwheat, China's cultivated buckwheat and tartar buckwheat, the former known as sweet buckwheat, the latter known as buckwheat. As the buckwheat seed contains rutin, so also known as buckwheat. Buckwheat in China has a long history of cultivation, the fifth century BC "Shennong book" on buckwheat is one of the eight cultivated grain records, in addition to our foreign countries, the former Soviet Union, Nepal, North Korea, Japan and the Americas and some parts of Europe, people also like to eat buckwheat. Especially in Japan, since the buckwheat from the Tang Dynasty by our country after the introduction of buckwheat food will be popular in the Japanese islands, the light to eat more than 100 kinds. To date, Japan is still buckwheat food as a health food. Buckwheat rice, buckwheat is the hull of the buckwheat fruit after the hull is obtained with or without the hull of the seeds. Efficacy: buckwheat protein is rich in lysine content, iron, manganese, zinc and other trace elements than the average grain, and rich in dietary fiber, is generally 10 times the refined rice. So buckwheat has a good nutritional health effects. Buckwheat is rich in vitamin E and soluble dietary fiber, but also contains niacin and rutin (rutin), rutin has to reduce human blood lipids and cholesterol, soften blood vessels, vision protection and prevention of cerebrovascular effects. It contains niacin can promote the body's metabolism, enhance the ability to detoxification, but also has the expansion of small blood vessels and reduce blood cholesterol effect. Buckwheat is rich in magnesium, can promote human fibrinolysis, vascular expansion, inhibit the formation of clots, with anti-embolism, is also conducive to reducing serum cholesterol. Buckwheat in some of the flavonoid components also have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, cough and asthma, expectorant effect. Therefore, buckwheat is also known as "light grain". In addition, these components also have the effect of reducing blood sugar. Motherland medicine believes that buckwheat is sweet and flat. There are spleen and qi, appetizer and intestines, digestion and stagnation effect. Special Note: Buckwheat noodles look poor color, but with it made into steak cake or noodles, accompanied by sesame sauce or mutton soup, a distinctive flavor. Buckwheat has the role of cleaning the intestinal deposits of waste, so the folk called "intestinal grass". Usually in the use of fine grains at the same time, often eat some buckwheat on the body and have benefits.