SafeDoes buckwheat contain gluten?
No. Despite the name, buckwheat is not wheat and contains no gluten: it is the seed of a plant that is not a cereal at all. The risk is downstream — buckwheat flour is often milled in the same mills as wheat, and traditional pizzoccheri are made by mixing it with wheat flour.
Eating out
Pizzoccheri and polenta taragna contain wheat in the classic recipe.
Recipes change from one producer to the next and from one kitchen to the next: this is how something is usually made, not what is in the plate in front of you. The only answer that holds for your plate is the ingredient list on the packet, or the person who cooked it.
And how did it go at the restaurant?
Knowing what is in a dish is half the answer. The other half is what actually happened to the people who ate it in a specific place — and that is what SafeBelly collects: no stars, just how it went afterwards.
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