Common Buckwheat it is often counted as a cereal, though unlike most cereals the buckwheats are not true grasses. Buckwheat is thus not related to true wheat. The name “buckwheat” or “beech wheat” comes from its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat.

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Buckwheat honey is a pungent honey with molasses and malty flavors and a lingering aftertaste.  The honey is dark purple, usually referred to as black.

Goltz, L. R., Editor and Harvey G. Lovell, Ph.D. Honey Plants. Medina, Ohio: Gleanings in Bee Culture, 1977

 

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