Product Introduction:

Black tartary buckwheat is of the best quality among all different kinds of buckwheat. It has dark hull and is reputed as the Black Pearl and Buckwheat King.   

Huantai tartary buckwheat tea is made of the carefully-chosen tartary buckwheat growing in cold mountainous area at an altitude of 2200 meters above sea level, and processed with the state-of-the-art technology.It offers richer nutrients that are easily absorbed and digested by the human body.

It is totally natural without any additives or preservatives, and is a healthy popular drink among all groups of people. It is a kind of gluten-free flour which is good for diabetics.

How to judge tartary buckwheat is in good quality or not?

Four Steps:

1. Observing: Pour the buckwheat particles into a clean and transparent container, observe them carefully. Good buckwheat tea particles look brown yellow while inferior buckwheat tea particles look faint yellow
2. Smelling: Good buckwheat tea smells strong wheat flavor but inferior buckwheat tea smells no wheat flavor, but other unknown smell
3. Brewing: Brewing the tea with fresh boiled water, observing whether there are suspended matters. Normally there’s a little suspended matters for good buckwheat tea. And if the suspended matters increased after shaking, and the water became turbid, then it is buckwheat tea in bad quality. After brewing, the water of good buckwheat tea looks clean and bright yellow. And the color would be faded after 3 to 4 times brewing
4. Tasting: Good buckwheat tea tastes good and pure with wheat flavor, little bitter

Q&A:

1. What's the difference between tartary buckwheat and buckwheat?

Buckwheat can be classified into two kinds: sweet buckwheat and tartary buckwheat

Sweet buckwheat contains high starch content, with strong aromas and good taste.

Tartary buckwheat contains amylopectin, with light aromas and little bitter taste. But the nutritive value is much higher than sweet buckwheat.

2. What’s the variety of tartary buckwheat?

Tartary buckwheat includes: black buckwheat, yellow buckwheat and hybridized buckwheat

Black buckwheat looks black. It’s very difficult to husk. The grain particle is small, and the productivity is very low while the nutritive value is very high

Yellow buckwheat looks tawny. It’s difficult to husk. The grain particle is relatively big and the productivity is low while the nutritive value is just lower than black buckwheat

Hybridized buckwheat looks silver gray or grayish yellow. It’s easy to husk. The grain particle is big and the productivity is high while the nutritive value is low.

3. What’s the reason that tartary buckwheat planted in Liangshan been regarded as the best tartary buckwheat?

Alpine and Cold mountain (the elevation of the Liangshan Mountain is 3000 meters above, natural growth, away from chemical fertilizers, pesticides and soil, water quality and air pollution;

Zero Add (the product does not contain polyphenols, caffeine, without any chemical additives and preservatives. The quality is natural and pure
Adequate sunshine (The annual sunshine time reach 2400 to 2600 hours in the south center areas of the Liangshan Mountain

There are 15 varieties of tartary buckwheat and 2 mutations in the world, while Liangshan possess 10 varieties and 2 mutations

4. What’s the function of Rutin?

Rutin: categorized into Vitamins, also known as Vitamin P; it can maintain the vascular resistance, reduce the vascular permeability and the blood vessel brittleness and enhance the sensitiveness to insulin so that it has the function of lowering blood sugar, blood fat and blood pressure.

5. Descriptions and valuation about tartary buckwheat in professional literature

China: Compendium of Materia Medica: Tartary buckwheat, bitter natured, slightly cold flat; functions: strengthen intestines and stomach, enhance the function of ear and eye and cheer up the spirit.

Japan: Tartary Buckwheat: the secret of longevity written by Katayama Toranosuke: In the field of treating and preventing Diabetes and high blood pressure, the effect of tartary buckwheat is 100 times as normal buckwheat, and 150 times as gingko.

Germany: The Orient Tartary buckwheat: written by Clift, Pharmacy expert in Germany and Kusano Ekitoku, expert in Japan: Growing in the Oriental plateau, the tartary buckwheat is somewhat like the star on the sky in Oriental herbal medicine field. It can be called as "Oriental Miraculous Herb"

It is a kind of gluten-free flour which is good for diabetics.