Buckwheat meaning annual herb. The seeds are ground into flour to make food.

Buckwheat, Chinese second level character, pronounced buckwheat (qiáo), radical fuck, structure up and down, total strokes **** 9 drawings. Buckwheat, Polygonaceae buckwheat genus, is a dicotyledonous plant. Buckwheat annual herb with a short growing season, slightly reddish stems, alternate, triangular heart-shaped leaves with long stalks, white or pale pink flowers, achenes triangular, and seeds ground into flour for consumption.

Buckwheat nutritious, both sweet buckwheat or buckwheat, is the seeds or stems, leaves, flowers, their nutritional value are very high. Buckwheat flour protein, fat are higher than wheat flour and rice. Protein is also higher than corn flour, while the fat is lower than corn flour.

Vitamin B2 is higher than wheat flour, rice and cornmeal 4 to 24 times, rutin and chlorophyll but for the lack of cereal grains. Mineral nutrients are also higher than other grains to varying degrees. Buckwheat containing protein 9.3% to 14.9%, fat 1.7% to 2.8%, starch 63.6% to 73.1%, due to varieties, planting areas and seed freshness varies greatly.

Compared with sweet buckwheat, buckwheat protein 61.5% higher, 56.9% higher fat, vitamin B2 3.16 times higher, 13.5 times higher vitamin P. The buckwheat is also a good source of protein, vitamin B2, vitamin P, and vitamin P. Buckwheat contains protein, a variety of vitamins, fiber, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, selenium and so on. Because it is rich in protein, vitamins, it has the effect of lowering blood lipids, protect vision, soften blood vessels, reduce blood sugar.

Eat buckwheat benefits:

1, to improve constipation: buckwheat is rich in dietary fiber, can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, to help digest food, for the improvement of constipation is helpful.

2, lipid reduction and weight loss: buckwheat is rich in dietary fiber and plant protein, can reduce blood cholesterol levels, promote fat metabolism, reduce the accumulation of body fat, for weight loss has a positive effect.