name: Tartary Buckwheat

flavor_db_name_variants: tartary buckwheat

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Tartary buckwheat

id: 80

name_scientific: Fagopyrum tataricum

description: Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) also known as duckwheat, India buckwheat, India wheat, green buckwheat, or bitter buckwheat, is a domesticated food plant in the genus Fagopyrum (sometimes merged into the genus Polygonum) in the family Polygonaceae. With another species in the same genus, common buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, but unlike the true cereals the buckwheats are not members of the grass family. Thus they are not related to true wheat. Tartary buckwheat is bitterer, but contains more rutin than common buckwheat. It also contains quercitrin. Tartar buckwheat was domesticated in east Asia. While it is unfamiliar to the West, it is still eaten in the Himalayan region today.

itis_id: 21283

wikipedia_id: Fagopyrum tataricum

picture_file_name: 80.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 47996

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:33:18.000Z

legacy_id: 86

food_group: Cereals and cereal products

food_subgroup: Cereals

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:19.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:15.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 62330

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00080