Secrets of using sowing buckwheat

Sowing buckwheat belongs to annual herbaceous plants. The shape of the stem is straight, it reaches a height of up to one meter, at the top it is usually branched, bare, and red or green in color. Buckwheat has alternate leaves, in the form of a triangle or an egg, the base in the form of a heart or an arrow. The tops of the leaves, pointed in length up to six centimeters. The lower leaves have long petioles, while the upper leaves are in a sitting position. It blooms with fragrant flowers collected in a brush in the form of a panicle. The perianth is simple, pink, red or white in color. It grows in length up to four millimeters. The fruit of this plant is a 3-sided brown nut, up to six millimeters long, with sharp ribs and smooth edges.

This plant belongs to ancient cultures. It happened in Central Asia, but the peoples who lived in the territory of Russia began to grow it.

It is grown in the middle zone of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus. According to the food standards, each person needs to consume up to seven and a half kilograms of buckwheat per year. She is one of the first cereal crops that are highly nutritious and have both medicinal, dietary and taste qualities. A variety of dishes prepared from it are useful to every person.

Sowing buckwheat: chemical composition

Buckwheat contains up to twenty percent of proteins, which include the highest content of lysine and tryptophan, also contains up to eighty percent of starch, about three percent of fat, and many other useful vitamins. The proteins contained in buckwheat are very well absorbed in the human body. The fats of this plant are distinguished by their resistance to oxidation, therefore the shelf life of the cereals is long and thus it does not reduce its nutritional qualities. Peeled buckwheat fruits are very useful and are a dietary product due to their wide composition.

The use of buckwheat for medicinal purposes

Buckwheat is very useful for intestinal diseases, anemia, and kidney disease. Buckwheat flour is also used in the form of lotions and ointments for various skin diseases.

Nowadays, this plant is used as a raw material to obtain rutin, which are taken from flowers and leaves that grow at the top of the plant, which are removed as soon as they begin to bloom. During this period, buckwheat will contain the largest amount of rutin, which is subsequently used for the preparation of various preparations. This substance is used in medicine for various diseases, such as hemorrhagic diathesis, retinal hemorrhage, hypertension and many others. In folk methods, flowers and leaves are boiled and used for medicinal purposes. For example, the brewed broth is used for coughing like tea.

Fresh buckwheat leaves, folded on top of each other in a thick layer, can be applied to purulent wounds and abscesses. The sifted powder from the leaves is used as a powder for diaper rash in babies.

Remember that it is very dangerous to consume fresh leaves internally, because they are considered very poisonous. If cattle eat dry buckwheat straw, they will soon begin to lose their hair.

The use of buckwheat in food

Buckwheat is also considered an excellent honey plant. From flowering crops, you can get up to forty percent of honey.Experienced beekeepers get up to one hundred kilograms of honey from one hectare of land. Honey extracted from buckwheat is the most valuable food product, which contains about sixty different substances.

After processing this plant, cereals and flour are obtained. Depending on how the cereal was processed, its quality indicators depend. The most common type of buckwheat is unground, as well as unground, which quickly boils down. Its production takes place by cleansing buckwheat kernels from its fruit shells. If you grind the kernel, you get flour. Buckwheat is one of the best cereals, which is very nutritious, high in calories and has good taste and is easy to digest.

Basically, sowing buckwheat is used for cooking porridge. It boils very well and quickly and has a very high calorie content. If cooked with milk, porridge will contain about 100 different substances, which will make it the most valuable dish. In addition to cereals, milk soups are prepared from buckwheat, it is also used in the production of blood sausage, and can serve as a filling in cooking.

For nutrition, kids use buckwheat flour, decoctions are prepared on it, and milk mixtures are also prepared. For older children, they begin to cook porridge from flour with the addition of milk and sugar. And also many of them bake pancakes and pancakes from buckwheat flour.