👅 Tasting notes: Tangy flavor with a hint of lettuce.
🌟 Benefits: Buckwheat microgreens have high levels of rutin. Rutin is a bioflavinoid and power anti-oxidant. Rutin helps build collagen and has been shown to prevent atherosclerosis by keeping artery walls flexible. Rutin along with lecithin (also in buckwheat), helps with lowering LDL cholesterol. Buckwheat also is one of the few plants that contain all essential amino acids making it a complete protein. This is a great addition to those eating a vegan diet. It also represents a good food to utilize for dieting especially those on low carb or keto diets.
🥗 Uses and Recipes: Buckwheat microgreen is an excellent garnish or topping for different foods – pizzas, or soups, stews, and curries, for example. Mix this with other fresh greens to make a salad. If you are making a sandwich, replace lettuce with buckwheat microgreens.
Fun facts:
Buckwheat isn't a wheat at all, in fact it derives from the rhubarb and sorrel family. The seeds interestingly are shaped like little pyramids.
It is high in fiber, and studies have shown that it helps slow down the rate of glucose absorption after a meal, making it a healthy choice for people with diabetes. Buckwheat is also high in manganese, magnesium, copper, and zinc, which are great for the immune system.
