Kooljoy Buckwheat Tea has a mild taste. It can harmonise with other traditional tea, eg black tea, green tea, etc. Want to try a tea cocktail anyone?
Register below for your chance to win a Kooljoy prize pack! This week’s prize pack contains: Buckwheat tea, tea cup, a candle and walnut cookies. The 7 Benefits of BuckWheat Te Bioflavonoids The main ingredient of bioflavonoids is rutin, also known as vitamin P which is hardly detected in most of cereals. Rutin is a citrus flavonoid glycoside found in many plants including buckwheat. Tartary buckwheat seeds have been found to contain more rutin (about 0.8-1.7% dry weight) than common buckwheat seeds (0.01% dry weight). Its main function is to soften blood vessels, improve microcirculation, detox, improve blood circulation, decrease blood sugar, urine sugar and blood fat. Trace elements and minerals Tartary buckwheat contains a variety of elements which are beneficial to human health, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, zinc and trace element selenium, etc. Magnesium content is more than 11 times that of wheat flour, iron is 2-5 times that of other staple foods, zinc is 1.5 times or more, manganese is 1.4 times more, potassium is 2 times that of wheat, and1.5 times of yellow cornmeal. High levels of magnesium and potassium greatly enhance the health function of buckwheat. Starch Buckwheat starch content is between 63.3% and 72.5%, the study has found that buckwheat starch contains relatively high proportion of resistant starch which results in a slow release of glucose, and therefore can be used as a good diet food for diabetic patients. Vitamins Buckwheat is rich in vitamins. Vitamin B2 content is 2-10 times more than in corn flour and rice. Vitamin P can help lower body lipids and cholesterol. Therefore it plays an important role in treating high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases. Especially for elderly people, Vitamin P can significantly reduce capillary fragility and permeability, and restore its elasticity. It can also help prevent strokes, maintain eye circulation, protect and improve vision. Vitamin E can help prevent oxidation and promote cell regeneration to prevent aging. Cellulose It is also known as dietary fiber. The content of cellulose is 1.6% in buckwheat, which is eight times as much as ordinary rice. It can help with bowel movements to remove toxins from the body so it is also called scavenger of human digestive system. Fat Buckwheat has high contents of oleic and linoleic acid. Linoleic acid is one of the most important fatty acids for human body which unfortunately cannot be synthesized naturally. It can help promote the growth and development of children. To adults, it can help prevent coronary heart diseases. Buckwheat can also help with prevention of freckles and age spots role due to the presence of skin melanin inhibiting substance (2, 4-dihydroxy-cis-cinnamic acid). Protein The protein content in buckwheat is up to 11.82% and contains 19 kinds of natural amino acids. It is lysine, arginine and histidine rich, of which wheat and rice usually lack. And nearly a third of buckwheat protein is cleanup proteins which can clean up toxins and foreign material. And due to the arginine content, buckwheat protein can prevent body fat increase.
