Don wrote:
>Is it in my list? Then it doesn't have gluten and it happens to not even be
>closely related to wheat. For those of us that are exquisitely sensitive to
>gluten, there is always the question of contamination. I'd never buy
>buckwheat from a bulk bin as scoops move around. Also buckwheat is grown as
>a cover crop, and volunteer wheat from prior seasons could pop through, and
>wheat may be in a field nearby. I'd only buy it whole, so I could examine
>the grains, then make sure there were no foreign ones.

I've read that buckwheat is a member of the rhubarb family.  And, it is very
easy to grind "flour" out of whole buckwheat.

Tammy G.

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