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Buckwheat, also known as common buckwheat, Japanese buckwheat and silverhull buckwheat, is a plant cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop
Buckwheat is one of the healthiest, nuttiest, most versatile whole grains. And despite its name, it's really not related to wheat at all. Buckwheat is actually the seed of a flowering fruit that is related to rhubarb and sorrel. It's completely gluten-free and unrelated to wheat and all the grasses in the wheat family.
Grains can be difficult for some to digest, which is just one of the many reasons we should begin soaking our organic grains before cooking. ... Two of them, quinoa and buckwheat, aren't technically grains at all, but seeds from non-grassy plants, part of a group called pseudo-grains.