Buckwheat Gruel

Buckwheat Gruel

　　Features: Delicious taste, enjoying refined grains in a rustic way.

　　 Preparation: Mix buckwheat paste with an appropriate amount of boiling water to form a gruel. According to personal preference, you can add honey, raisins, or a small amount of pickled vegetable bits and chopped scallions. You may also use our ginger tea for a more health-beneficial blend. This product can be savory or sweet, thick or thin, offering rich variations.

　　Detailed Introduction:

　　　　The King of Grains – Buckwheat

　　　　1. As recorded in the "Shennong’s Herbal Classic" from the 5th century BC, it is hailed as the “King of Mixed Grains.”

　　　　2. Buckwheat—not bitter—is the only grain that combines all seven essential nutrients (bioflavonoids, trace elements and minerals, starch, vitamins, fiber, fats, and proteins).

　　　　3. Buckwheat is not a medicine or a health supplement, but a food that can be eaten as a staple. It has very high nutritional value—at least ten times that of sweet buckwheat, 100 times that of common buckwheat, and 150 times that of ginkgo leaves. It shares botanical kinship with polygonum multiflorum and rhubarb.

　　　　4. Buckwheat contains 149% more lysine than rice, 163% more than wheat flour, and 124% more than yellow corn. Its arginine content is 86% higher than rice, 120% higher than wheat flour, and 157% higher than yellow corn flour.

　　　　5. Buckwheat is grown only in a few high-altitude cold mountainous regions of southwestern China, making it green, natural, and unpolluted.

　　　　6. Buckwheat is rich in balanced and comprehensive essential nutrients required by the human body, including 12% protein, 2.2% fat, 65% starch, 2.5% dietary fiber, 2–3% rutin, as well as abundant trace elements such as selenium and chromium. It contains 19 amino acids, 8 of which are essential to humans.

　　　　7. Especially notable is its rich content of bioflavonoids—especially rutin—which is not found in other grains. Buckwheat also contains chlorophyll, which is absent in other cereal crops.

　　　　The Value of Buckwheat

　　　　It helps lower blood sugar and blood lipids, boosts the immune system, treats stomach ailments, removes dampness and detoxifies, cures nephritis, removes malignant tissues within the body, and provides auxiliary benefits for diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, and stomach diseases. It is also the preferred food for those seeking weight loss.

　　　　Buckwheat Around the World

　　　　The nutritional and medicinal value of buckwheat has long been recognized worldwide. Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea import large quantities of buckwheat from China every year. Some countries even mandate that teenagers consume at least 200 grams of buckwheat per week. Especially in Japan, there are over 7,000 soba noodle restaurants across the country. The Japanese continue to enjoy this specialty food from China's land in great abundance, benefiting from its contribution to health and longevity.

　　　　What We Can Do

　　　　Is to present this naturally-formed food from ancient times and the mountains—rich in essential nutrients and elements, and possessing dual food-and-medicine functions—to the people of our country. Let every Chinese person eat for health and vitality, so that the Chinese nation can stand taller and prouder in the world.