essential oils in grains

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Just read this article on a web site

(http://www.primalseeds.org/OTHERSTUFF/new/grain.htm)

about ancient grains. Buckwheat sounded like a good grain to cook

because of its high protein and amino acid content but then it went on

to say it had lots of oleic and linoleic acid which I thought we

weren't to heat due to fragility.

Tartarian buckwheat - India wheat, bitter buckwheat, Fagopyrum

tartaricum

Cultivation of this type of buckwheat began long ago in China. A very

quickly and easily grown cereal it succeeds in poorer soils and in

colder conditions than most other crops. Prefers cool and wet

conditions but it can grow in dry and arid conditions. It is cultivated

in the high and cold mountain areas of the southwest and northwest of

China and the Himalayas. Madawaska buckwheat is a variety of Tartarian

buckwheat that is even more drought and cold tolerant, seed is

available from Future Foods.

In more favourable locations yields are lower than of common buckwheat

Fagopyrum esculentum, but Tartarian buckwheat has a more nutritious

grain with a protein content of 11.6%, this higher than wheat, corn,

rice or buckwheat. The content of potassium, magnesium and zinc is also

higher than other cereals, it is especially rich in lysine, oleic acid

and linoleic acid, and contains rutin that reduces blood sugar and

cholesterol levels.

Anyone have an opinion about that?

Parashis

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