Buckwheat is not actually a grain at all! Buckwheat is the seed of a flowering annual plant, and is called a pseudocereal. Its hulled seeds are grain-like, each having a 3-sided distinctive triangular appearance with pointed corners. Buckwheat not related to wheat at all, despite the name! Buckwheat has the botanical name Fagopyrum esculentum. It is often grown as a good cover crop. Buckwheat is gluten-free and the groats we use at Organic Flour Mills are always organic.
Buckwheat comes to you hulled into buckwheat groats, and can then be sprouted, or it can be soaked and dehydrated in the sun or on low heat into bukinis. Great for coeliacs or anyone!
Buckwheat is good to eat and healthy when soaked and eaten raw, (eg: sprinkled on your breakfast), or milled into flour.