Anyone ever had to use buckwheat hulls?

[Andrea]

Waited till the day before to go shopping and my LHBS does not have rice hulls for my Rye brew on MLK day. Yikes!
So I had to go the health food store and they had buckwheat hulls.

Has anyone used buckwheat hulls and lived to tell?

They sure don't look good....

 

[SKMO]

Well this got my curiosity up, and honest to god there is a buckwheathulls dot com website. Why am I surprised anymore, about anything.

I can't see anywhere it is used as a food product, it's filling for pillows primarily. I doubt if it would be unhealthy but may have some off-tastes involved. Also might swell and make the sparge drain worse. For example, tossing a big hand full of psyllium husk into a mash would cement it into a big blob of gelatin.