Chitchat Soba (i.e. Japanese buckwheat noodles) is healthier than rice and wheat...

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... much more nutritious, tastier and cheap enough, in my humble opinion. :o

wikipedia.org/wiki/Soba
"Soba (そば or 蕎麦) is the Japanese name for buckwheat. It usually refers to thin noodles made from buckwheat flour, or buckwheat and wheat flours (Nagano soba).
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Soba is a good nutritional addition to a diet reliant on white rice and wheat flour. Thiamine, missing from white rice, is present in soba and eating thiamine (vitamin B1) prevents the disease beriberi. It contains lysine, which is lacking in wheat flour. Soba contains all eight essential amino acids. The tradition of eating soba arose in the Edo period."



I buy mine (Ni-hachi (二八, two-eight) soba, containing 20% wheat and 80% buckwheat) from:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiso#Singapore
Singapore │ Store Locator │ DAISO JAPAN
Only S$2 for 400g (4 bundles x 100g per bundle; including about 13g of healthy plant protein per bundle). :o
nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5684/1


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