How long is boiled buckwheat stored?

The most important foods in the diet of most people are porridges. They are usually prepared for breakfast or lunch, they are a side dish for meat and fish dishes.Everybody loves buckwheat porridge: both adults and children, so they cook it very often. Of course, a freshly prepared dish will be tastier and healthier than the harvested for the future. Often it is necessary to boil porridge for several days in advance, so it is important to know how much boiled buckwheat can be stored in the refrigerator.

According to the researchers, the homeland of this culture is India and Nepal. In these countries, it grew wild. Later it began to be cultivated in these and other countries. Grow culture for more than 4 thousand years. In our regions, buckwheat came from Greece, as its name says. This cereal has become a very important and sought-after crop worldwide.

Perhaps in none of the cereals there are so many important elements. Buckwheat porridge is not for nothing called the queen among other cereals, because the product includes a sufficient amount of important and necessary for the human body of trace elements and vitamins. In addition, buckwheat has a number of useful properties.

• Due to the use of dishes with buckwheat porridge, it is possible to enrich the body with important minerals, because iron, magnesium, iodine, phosphorus, magnesium are in the composition. The product contains vitamins B1 and B2, as well as E and PP. There are 18 amino acids in it.
• Croup contains folic acid, due to which the body is easier to resist colds and viral infections. In addition, due to folic acid, the circulatory system normalizes.
• It should be included in the diet of people with kidney disease, its use helps to reduce edema.
• Green buckwheat helps to eliminate harmful cholesterol from the body, as well as toxins.
• It is recommended to include porridge from this cereal to people with problems of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as with diseases of the pancreas.
• This product is recommended for athletes, as it promotes muscle building.

In buckwheat porridge enough protein. This dish will satisfy the body, because 100 grams of the product contains 12.5 grams of protein. Porridge is often added to the diet of people with low hemoglobin. This dish is often consumed by adherents of a healthy diet, buckwheat is often included in many diets for cleansing the body and losing weight. Most often on the shelves in the shops you can see brown buckwheat, but the most useful is considered to be light green or yellowish.

The taste of the dish often depends on the quality of the cereal, therefore, choosing a product in stores, It is important to pay attention to some nuances.

• There should be no garbage in the croup, it should be clean: without husks, small pebbles, insects. It is better to buy buckwheat in a transparent package that allows you to visually assess its quality.
• To make porridge friable and razvararoy, it is desirable to purchase cereals with grains of the same size.
• It is advisable to buy the product in factory sealed packaging, as in the weighted cereal often caught trash, bugs.
• Adherents of a healthy diet is better to give preference to green, unroasted buckwheat: this product will have a lot more nutrients.
• When choosing, it is important to make sure that the grain is higher or 1 grade, because this product is not processed when grown with pesticides.

Any product has a shelf life, the same applies to cereals. Buckwheat groats can be sold in the form of Zadritsa, past, green grains and quickly digestible flakes. For each of these species there are certain terms for their use.

During storage, it is important to adhere to certain rules, as if improper storage will reduce the quality of the product.It is necessary to ensure an optimum ratio of humidity and temperature indicators, as well as choose the right packaging for storage. In the room where there will be products, there should be no specific and unpleasant odors.

When buying buckwheat in the store, it is important to pay attention to its packaging. According to GOST, it should contain the date of production and the final term of use of the product. It is recommended to purchase a packaged product, since when buying a weight product it is difficult to know where and when it was prepacked, its shelf life.

Product storage time:

• a jarice is stored in a package for 20 months, in an open package, its shelf life is 4 months;
• green cereal in the original packaging is stored for up to 15 months, and in the open form the shelf life is only 3 months.

It is necessary to adhere to the optimal mode of storage of the product in the room. It is desirable that the room temperature does not rise above 25 degrees, while the humidity there should not be up to 70%. If these parameters are violated, it is necessary to transfer the grain to another room.

It is better to store groats

• in paper bags;
• in packs of cardboard;
• in plastic bags;
• in plastic containers, while you need to choose food grade plastic;
• in glass jars.

Manufacturers often sell cereals in bags, so you can pour a little cereal into a small canvas bag for storage at home.

With prolonged or improper storage, the product may deteriorate:

• grains may be lumped;
• in the croup, mole or worms may start;
• grain may acquire an unusual odor.

When stored at home due to high humidity in the room in the croup may appear mold. Even washing the refined buckwheat groats several times under running water does not eliminate the smell of mold, and the product will have to be thrown away.

Although it does not take much time to cook buckwheat porridge, more often it is not enough, so many people prefer to cook porridge for a few days in advance. One has only to get a portion of porridge from the refrigerator, warm it up, and within a couple of minutes a full meal or breakfast will be ready. But you should know that boiled buckwheat is a perishable food, so it is better not to cook it in large quantities.

After the porridge is cooked, it can be kept indoors at room temperature for 4 hours. After cooling dishes should be put in the refrigerator for storage. It is not necessary to allow boiled buckwheat to be stored there for more than 3 days.

In the event that the product was in the refrigerator for a long time, before eating the porridge should be thermally processed, that is, fry or reheat by other means. To increase the shelf life of the product, you should not add milk or butter to it.

If it is necessary to store the product for a longer time, the finished porridge can be frozen. To do this, it is better to scatter the finished dish in small containers, freeze them and get out of the freezer as needed. In the absence of small containers, boiled porridge is scattered into packages and placed in the freezer. Frozen food can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 weeks.

If the storage time of the cereal comes to an end, or the period has already expired, you need to check whether the cereal is suitable for further use.It is necessary to inspect the product and find out if there was a smell of mold or other unpleasant smell in the product, which indicates the deterioration of the product.

It is necessary to pour a couple of spoons of cereal from the storage tank and visually determine if bugs or moths are there. When they are available, the spoiled product is sent to the trash.

To determine how fresh the product is, you can chew a few grains of buckwheat. If you feel a pleasant aftertaste, without bitterness and mustiness, such cereal can be used for cooking.

If the shelf life of the product has expired, there are no bugs in it, but there is an unpleasant smell, such buckwheat can be cooked, but it is unlikely to be tasty.

It is not necessary to harvest a large amount of cereals for the future, because buckwheat is almost always on the shelves. It is better to buy some cereals and cook a delicious fresh buckwheat porridge than throw away the spoiled product.

About how much boiled buckwheat is stored, see the following video.