2. Lowering blood sugar: maltose contained in malt can not only supplement the body's need for sugar nutrients, but also has the effect of lowering blood sugar, it is very suitable for diabetics.
3. Lactation: Malt can help women to promote the secretion of milk.
4. Antibacterial: malt contains hordenine, which has a certain inhibitory effect on bacterial activity.
5. Buying tips: Malt is shuttle-shaped, the surface is yellowish, the back is surrounded by lemmas, with 5 veins.
6. The ventral surface is surrounded by palea.
7. After removing the palea, there is 1 longitudinal groove on the ventral surface, and young shoots and fibrous roots are produced at the basal radicle, the young shoots are long lanceolate strips, and the fibrous roots are several, slender and curved, hard, white on the cross section, and powdery.
8. Fried malt: shaped like malt, brownish-yellow surface, occasional scorched spots.
9. Scorched malt: shaped like malt, the surface is burnt brown, with scorched spots.
10. Quality quality malt particle size is uniform and full, the main thing is the high rate of malt.
11. Judge whether there is no germination treatment: after germination treatment of malt is easy to use the teeth to crack, break open the lemma can be seen inside the powdery, loose.
12. Unmalted malt is very hard, not powdery after knocking, granular.
13. If the barley buds drilled out of the lemma, the length is much greater than 5 millimeters, it does not comply with the provisions of the Pharmacopoeia, as a substandard product.
14. Taste: malt taste slightly sweet.
15. Fried malt has an aroma and a slightly bitter flavor.
16. Burnt malt has a burnt aroma, slightly bitter flavor.