Wartość odżywcza i możliwości wykorzystania gryki

*Krystyna Zarzecka, Marek Gugała, Iwona Mystkowska

Summary
There has been an increasing interest in buckwheat, buckwheat groat, buckwheat flour, pasta and other its products for the last few years. Buckwheat´s economic values and health properties allow using it in the agriculture, food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and herbal medicine. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is a precious source of many various bioactive nutritions components and substances such as: wheat aminoacides, polisaccharides, poliphenols, vitamins and mineral substances. Due to the presence of biologically active substances, buckwheat plant is considered a pro-health activity in the human body. In this paper attention is paid to the possibilities of utilization of both buckwheat groats and by-products. The products obtained during processing offer a source of substances to be used in production of functional foods, herbal and fruit teas and products pro-health. In this study botanical characteristics Fagopyrum esculentum Moench and chemical composition of buckwheat grains including bioactive substances are presented.

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