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Buckwheat flour

Buckwheat flour is made from buckwheat seeds. Cooks use it as a flour and starch.

Part used
Seed
Family
Polygonaceae
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Germany
Buckwheat flour, whole

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Nutrition

What 100 g of buckwheat flour holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 10%Fat 3%Carbohydrate 87%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of buckwheat flour
Energy358 kcal · 1,402 kJ
Protein8.9 g
Fat2.5 g
of which saturated0.68 g
Carbohydrate75 g
of which sugars2.6 g
Fibre10 g
Sodium0 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of buckwheat flour: minerals and vitamins
Potassium378 mg
Calcium31 mg
Iron3.8 mg
Magnesium167 mg
Zinc1.8 mg
Folate54 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 170687, 2512374), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where buckwheat flour is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use buckwheat flour. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list buckwheat flour among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
China
First cultivated
in South-eastern Asia, about 6,000 BCE

  1. The 1400s · Europe

    Buckwheat reached Europe by the 15th century.

On the table

Dishes made with buckwheat flour

3 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Prażucha

    Poland

  • Buckwheat dumplings

    Germany

  • Zatiruha

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include buckwheat flour.

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What buckwheat flour is called

Names in 21 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    harina de sarraceno · harina de alforfon

  • French

    farine de sarrasin · farine de blé noir · Farine de sarrasin

  • Italian

    farina di grano saraceno

  • Portuguese

    farinha de trigo mourisco

  • German

    Buchweizenmehl

  • Dutch

    boekweitmeel

  • Greek

    αλέυρι φαγόπυρου

  • Russian

    мука гречневая · Гречневая мука · гречневая мука

  • Polish

    mąka gryczana

  • Japanese

    蕎麦粉 · そば粉 · ソバ粉

  • Basque

    sarrazeno gari-irin

  • Belarusian

    грачаная мука

Show all 21 languages

  • Catalan

    farina de fajol

  • Czech

    pohanková mouka

  • Danish

    boghvedemel

  • Hungarian

    hajdinaliszt

  • Irish

    plúr ruáin

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    bokhvetemel

  • Slovenian

    ajdova moka · ajdina moka

  • Swedish

    bovetemjöl

  • Ukrainian

    гречане борошно

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q11621982

Photos

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons