Abstract: Buckwheat is rich in nutritional and medical composition. Buckwheat protein is the main bio-active compositionin buckwheat, and has especial structure, physiological functions and functional properties, and has vast utilizable prospects inthe food process fields. This paper introduces content, composition, quality, physiological function, functional property andnutritive property of buckwheat protein. The main idea is to push forward buckwheat research and to accelerate exploitation andutilization of buckwheat.

Key words: buckwheat, buckwheat protein, physiological function, functional property, nutritive property