Just a little shout out to my friend buck wheat. Ive recently started mixing buck wheat cereal half and half with my oats. Has several benefits
#1 well hell taste good makes a great hot cereal.
#2 High in fiber higher than rolled oats
#3 and a biggie and why one should consider using a mix of it. Buck Wheat is a fruit and not a whet product. It like other grains is not quite complete in its amino profile BUT what it lacks the oats have. Buck Wheat then is High in Lysine the amino most of your grains are lacking so the combination makes them a good complete source of protein.
Just thought id share with you all,
toss in a banana a few scoops of Metabolic Drive and your good to go.
Bumping an old thread rather than starting a new one. Buckwheat is a staple of my diet, I have an uncle who grows the stuff and I eat it two-three times a week with dinner.
I generally prefer to stir-fry it or sautee it with meat. I sometimes boil it but it really swells up when boiled. A handful becomes a sizeable mound. That’s not too convenient when bulking. So I stick to oats for breakfast.
The more I read about grains, the more I dislike them nutritionally.
Luckily, buckwheat is not a grain. It is a fantastic low-GI carb source that is a staple during my carb-ups(along with oats, the only grain I really can’t give up. Fuck wheat, oats are the shit).
Arrowhead Mills has buck wheat. I buy mine from an organic food store.
WARNING: Read the labels. A lot of things are advertised as buck wheat. When you read the label, the first ingredient is wheat flour. I buy the 100% buck wehat.
I’ll have to look into that as I’m fortunate enough to live close to one of the last few places where they stone-grind their grains, buckwheat amongst them.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
Where does one acquire buck wheat?
Secondly- Praise be to phil, for he introduces us to new foods.[/quote]
Your In Topeka go to walmart they have buckwhaet flour, or Price Choopper they have bobs red mill buckwheat hot cereal mix it with the oat bran cereal good stuff.
[quote]Mattlaw27 wrote:
What do you put in with your Buckwheat? I just cooked some for the morning and it has a pretty strong flavor compared to oatmeal.[/quote]
me half oat bran half buckwheat to get the complete protein etc. then banana, 2 scoops Grow! or Metabolic Drive and spices like cinnamon Ginger etc
I never ate it myself, but found an interesting study about buck wheat:
Muscle hypertrophy in rats fed on a buckwheat protein extract.Kayashita J, Shimaoka I, Nakajoh M, Kondoh M, Hayashi K, Kato N.
Kissei Pharmaceutical Company, Matsumoto, Japan.
Growing rats were examined for the influence of a buckwheat protein diet on muscle weight and protein. In experiment 1, the rats were fed on a diet containing either casein or a buckwheat protein extract (BWPE) as the protein source (10%, 20% or 30%) for 5 wk. The relative weights (g per kg of body wt) of the gastrocnemius, plantaris and soleus muscles were higher in the BWPE-fed animals than in the casein-fed ones, but were unaffected by the dietary level of protein. These differences were not associated with growth. In experiment 2, the rats were fed on either a casein or BWPE diet at the 20% protein level for 5 wk. BWPE intake significantly elevated the gastrocnemius muscle weight, carcass protein and water, and reduced carcass fat.
These results demonstrate that BWPE consumption causes muscle hypertrophy, elevates carcass protein and water, and reduces body fat.
[quote]the thomanator wrote:
I never ate it myself, but found an interesting study about buck wheat:
Muscle hypertrophy in rats fed on a buckwheat protein extract.Kayashita J, Shimaoka I, Nakajoh M, Kondoh M, Hayashi K, Kato N.
Kissei Pharmaceutical Company, Matsumoto, Japan.
Growing rats were examined for the influence of a buckwheat protein diet on muscle weight and protein. In experiment 1, the rats were fed on a diet containing either casein or a buckwheat protein extract (BWPE) as the protein source (10%, 20% or 30%) for 5 wk. The relative weights (g per kg of body wt) of the gastrocnemius, plantaris and soleus muscles were higher in the BWPE-fed animals than in the casein-fed ones, but were unaffected by the dietary level of protein. These differences were not associated with growth. In experiment 2, the rats were fed on either a casein or BWPE diet at the 20% protein level for 5 wk. BWPE intake significantly elevated the gastrocnemius muscle weight, carcass protein and water, and reduced carcass fat.
These results demonstrate that BWPE consumption causes muscle hypertrophy, elevates carcass protein and water, and reduces body fat.
PMID: 10478451 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
Thomas[/quote]
Damn I should be all swole up
Nice work though yet another reason for me to keep ye oloe buckwheat
