Description: Buckwheat is a precious food that contains the most important trace elements and is the best dietary grain: it is rich in fiber and contains indigestible carbohydrates, so that buckwheat does not increase blood sugar levels too much. Buckwheat should not be confused with millet, rice, oats. This is not a food crop, but the seed of a distant relative of rhubarb. Rhubarb makes great preserves and jellies, and buckwheat also makes jellies, if you try it. Buckwheat has so far been considered an environmentally friendly product, and not without reason: buckwheat is unpretentious to the soil and not afraid of weeds - so it is grown without the use of pesticides, and, moreover, it is grown without the use of fertilizers. Buckwheat has a positive effect on liver function It helps to lower cholesterol.