SPROUTING

Buckwheat is rich in minerals and plant compounds including rutin (which possesses powerful antioxidant properties and helps your body use Vitamin C).
When we sprout our buckwheat, we turbocharge these available nutrients by convincing the buckwheat groat that it is ready to germinate into a plant. Sprouting breaks down it’s protective acidic coating and the buckwheat releases a megastore of nutrients for us to digest and absorb. Amazing.

Complex Carbs

Our sprouted buckwheat is a complex carbohydrate but rest assured, this is not really complex at all! A complex carbohydrate is a carbohydrate that the body takes longer to break down (digest) , resulting in slower digestion and feeling fuller for longer.

Complex carbohydrates also stabilise our blood sugar levels for longer periods, due to slow release energy. Conversely, white bread is a good example of a simple carbohydrate, it burns fast in our system and spikes the blood sugar, as it is a sudden influx of energy.

Protein

As well as leading to a feeling of fullness with complex carbs, our sprouted Buckwheat groats are also high in protein.
High protein plant foods are better for us, as they also lead to a greater feeling of satiety (fullness) with less intake, so we can eat less and feel fuller for longer.

Prebiotic fibres

As the worlds richest source of combined protein and fibre, 40% Protein and 37% Fibre, the lupin flakes we use are rich in prebiotic fibre, which help form part of the diverse range of fibres we have used in your BREAKFAST along with our sprouted buckwheat and chicory root fibre.

Mineral Madness

On top of that, lupin flakes are an excellent source of minerals including magnesium, calcium, iron and potassium, in fact lupin contains 3 x more iron than kale and 3 x more potassium that a banana! It is also a very high source of essential amino acids.

Sustainable Farming

To ice the cake for this amazing little legume, lupin grows best in the infertile sandy soils that were difficult for the farmers to grow anything in.
It acts as a natural fertiliser when it grows and actually introduces nitrogen back into these infertile soils, enriching them and reducing the need for chemical fertilisers.
These factors contribute to lupin being farmed in a very sustainable way, which is very important to us all as guardians of the earth.

Gut Goodness

Our digestive tract doesn’t have the enzymes required to digest Inulin, so it makes it through to our large intestine undigested.

Here, it serves as nourishment for our gut microbiota, which are the living organisms in our gut that include both good and bad bacteria.

Inulin is very effective in supporting the good beneficial bacteria, as this is their preferred nutrient.