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Chemical, nutritional, and technological characteristics of buckwheat and non-prolamine buckwheat flours in comparison to wheat for celiac patients use have been studied. The results suggested the following conclusions: the 56.5% extraction value for flour obtention is considered good; the buckwheat flour presents methionine and cystine as first limiting amino acids followed by threonine as the second limiting amino acid; the buckwheat flour presents higher content of lysine amino acids than the wheat flour; the buckwheat flour is superior to the wheat flour regarding iron, copper, and magnesium minerals; the buckwheat flour does not present haemagglutinin activity and the tannin content is negligible. Rheological assays indicate that the buckwheat flour does not contain gluten.
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De Francischi, M.L.P., Salgado, J.M. & Leitão, R.F.F. Chemical, nutritional and technological characteristics of buck wheat and non-prolamine buckwheat flours in comparison of wheat flour. Plant Food Hum Nutr 46, 323–329 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01088431
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