5 kg Wholemeal Buckwheat Flour – Molino Zappalà

The buckwheat It is a fake cereal: the seeds and flour of the Polygonum Fagopyrum have uses and nutritional properties similar to cereal, from the botanical point of view the plant but belongs to the polygonaceae family. It is not, in other words, a graminacea.

The cultivation and food use of this "wheat" are present in Italy since 1400, but the origin is eastern. His presence on our territory is so rooted that the buckwheat flour is the main ingredient of some typical recipes of our Alpine valleys: the Polenta Taragna and the Pizzoccheri of Valtellina.

From a nutritional point of view, this fake cereal has some interesting nutrient features, for example:

• his starch is particularly rich in amilopectina: This makes it easily digestible;
• It is free of the glow gluten And therefore it is an ingredient suitable for those who suffer from celiac disease.
• Unlike grasses, it also provides a discreet amount of essential sulfur amino acids;
• It is a good source of iron, potassium, phosphorus, copper and zinc.

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Medium nutritional content 100g of product:

Energy value 1377 Kjouule - 329 kcal

Protein 6.40 gr

Carbohydrates 74.30 gr

of which sugars 0.46 gr

Fat 1.80 gr

of which saturated 0.66 gr

FIBER FIBER 3.40 gr

Sodium 0.001 gr

Salt 0.004 gr