buckwheat

Everyday

1. A plant grown for its small, triangle-shaped seeds, which are cooked like grain or ground into flour. tree →
2. The seeds or flour of this plant, used for porridge, pancakes and noodles. tree →

In the lessons

In food and science lessons, buckwheat is surprising: despite its name it is not a kind of wheat and has no gluten, so people with coeliac disease can eat it. In world-food lessons it appears in Japanese soba noodles, French galettes (Brittany crêpes) and Ukrainian, Russian and Polish «kasha» (hrechka in Ukrainian).

Examples

• Buckwheat is not related to wheat. tree →
• Grandma cooks buckwheat porridge for breakfast. tree →
• Soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour. tree →
• Buckwheat pancakes are popular in Brittany. tree →
• My friend eats buckwheat because it has no gluten. tree →
• Bees love buckwheat flowers. tree →
• Ukrainian families often eat buckwheat with mushrooms. tree →
• Then they gave him the dog, and a buckwheat hearth-cake as provision by the way. tree →

Note

Uncountable: «some buckwheat». Trap: the name contains «wheat», but buckwheat is gluten-free and is a seed related to rhubarb, not a grass. Written as one word.