What are the benefits of eating scones?

Scone is a traditional summer flavor food of Han nationality. Popular in Beijing and other places. Buckwheat flour is boiled into a gray paste, made into small cakes, and placed in a cold water basin. Made from buckwheat flour, usually sold together with bean jelly. When eating, cut into small pieces, then cut the small scones into two thin long pieces with thick middle, put them in a bowl, pour in the juice mixed with sesame sauce, soy sauce and good vinegar, add red and salty shredded carrots, and pour in mustard, pepper or minced garlic.

Buckwheat is rich in dietary fiber, and its content is 10 times that of ordinary polished rice.

buckwheat

buckwheat

Buckwheat contains more trace elements such as iron, manganese and zinc than ordinary grains.

Buckwheat is rich in vitamin E, soluble dietary fiber, nicotinic acid and rutin. Rutin has the effects of reducing blood fat, cholesterol, softening blood vessels, protecting eyesight and preventing cerebrovascular hemorrhage. Nicotinic acid can promote metabolism, enhance detoxification ability, dilate small blood vessels and lower blood cholesterol.

Buckwheat is rich in magnesium, which can promote fibrinolysis, dilate blood vessels, inhibit thrombosis, have antithrombotic effect and help lower serum cholesterol.

Buckwheat contains some flavonoids, which have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, antiasthmatic, expectorant and hypoglycemic effects.

Chinese medicine believes that buckwheat is cool and sweet, which can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion and stop sweating. Herbal dietotherapy claims that it "strengthens the stomach,

Buckwheat cake with sweet sauce

Buckwheat cake with sweet sauce

"Yiqi Li, continue to be energetic" "Fun Life Diet Spectrum" says that it "appetizes, moistens intestines, benefits qi, keeps out cold and prevents wind"; China Herbs Illustrated that buckwheat "can inhibit cold sweat".

Through scientific verification, it is considered that buckwheat is a nutritious food containing phosphorus, calcium, iron, amino acids, fatty acids and linoleic acid, which has dietotherapy effect on patients with heart disease, hypertension and diabetes, and is one of the first choice foods for these patients. But buckwheat is a cold food, which is not suitable for digestion and should not be eaten more.