Buckwheat is a seed with cereal properties and nutrients like quinoa and amaranth.
Quinoa is the most popular pseudo-cereal, but buckwheat is better than it.
When buying buckwheat flour, you need to pay attention to the following points.
1.Look at the color
There are traces of carotene in wheat, so the flour should be milky white or yellowish color.
After the addition of whitening agents, oxidation reactions occur, the flour becomes snow white or miserable white.
2.Smell
No whitening agent added flour should have a faint wheat, fragrant smell, while the addition of whitening agent flour will appear light and tasteless or with a little chemical taste.
At the same time, because the surface is powdered, the ability to absorb taste and moisture are very strong.
If damp after re-drying, will carry some musty smell, smell a slight bit of wheat is the best.
3.Twist and rub with your hands
High-quality flour feels slightly astringent.
And adulterated with talcum powder, lime powder and other substances of flour, feel slippery.
Modern people focus on health, choose to replace the delicate white noodles with soba noodles, from the perspective of weight loss.
Then all food is the same, for buckwheat coarse grains, it is because it is rich in cellulose.
Its absorption and glycemic index is relatively slower than white flour to be a little slower, so it is slow glycemic, but does not mean that you can just eat.
Because it will aggravate the symptoms of human spleen and stomach cold, those who have a cold spleen and stomach and frequent diarrhea.
After eating soba noodles will make the symptoms worse, easy to cause adverse effects on the body's digestive system.
Eat some moderate amount of soba noodles can have the following benefits to the human body.
1.Supplemental nutrition
Soba is a very high nutritional value of health ingredients, people can eat it after the body to supplement rich plant protein, drink a lot of unsaturated fatty acids also allow the body to absorb some vitamins and minerals.
It can increase the body's sense of satiety and can speed up the body's normal metabolism, can improve the body's multi-organ function, to maintain human health has great good.
2.Weight loss and slimming
Soba is also a healthy ingredient for weight loss and slimming, because it also has a lot of dietary fiber, people can use it to increase body satiety and reduce the body's intake of other foods.
In addition it can also promote the decomposition of excess fat in the body can be converted into water, with the body's metabolism out of the body can make human weight loss significantly.
3.Cardiovascular protection
Buckwheat noodles also have a significant cardiovascular protection, because it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and trace elements.
These substances can maintain human cardiovascular health, can increase blood vessel elasticity, and can promote blood circulation, the human body is often hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia have a certain preventive effect.
In addition to often eat soba, but also to prevent atherosclerosis, can also improve human heart function.