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- Title
Tartary Buckwheat in Human Nutrition.
- Authors
Luthar, Zlata; Golob, Aleksandra; Germ, Mateja; Vombergar, Blanka; Kreft, Ivan
- Abstract
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) originates in mountain areas of western China, and it is mainly cultivated in China, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal, and central Europe. Tartary buckwheat shows greater cold resistance than common buckwheat, and has traits for drought tolerance. Buckwheat can provide health benefits due to its contents of resistant starch, mineral elements, proteins, and in particular, phenolic substances, which prevent the effects of several chronic human diseases, including hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and gallstone formation. The contents of the flavonoids rutin and quercetin are very variable among Tartary buckwheat samples from different origins and parts of the plants. Quercetin is formed after the degradation of rutin by the Tartary buckwheat enzyme rutinosidase, which mainly occurs after grain milling during mixing of the flour with water. High temperature treatments of wet Tartary buckwheat material prevent the conversion of rutin to quercetin.
- Subjects
BUCKWHEAT; NUTRITION; GRAIN milling; FLOUR mills; DROUGHT tolerance; HYPERTENSION
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2021, Vol 10, Issue 4, p700
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants10040700