Barley English name: hullessbarley is a cereal crop of the genus barley in the gramineae family, because of its internal and external glumes separated, the seeds are exposed, so it is also known as naked barley, yuan wheat, rice barley. Mainly produced in Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places in China, is the main food of the Tibetan people. Barley planted on the Tibetan plateau about 4 million years of history, from the material culture to extend to the field of spiritual culture, formed on the Tibetan plateau, rich in connotation, very rich in national characteristics of barley culture. Has a wide range of medicinal as well as nutritional value, has launched a barley noodles, barley steamed bread, barley nutritional powder and other barley products.

Chinese literary name: ? Barley

Alias: ? Naked barley, yuan wheat, rice barley

Boundary: ? Plantae

Family:? Gramineae

Genus: ? Barley

Nutritional value and efficacy

Barley has a rich nutritional value and prominent role in medicine and health care. In the high cold and lack of oxygen on the Tibetan Plateau, why there is no shortage of centenarians, which is often eaten with barley, and barley's prominent health care function is inseparable. According to "herbal gleanings" records: barley, under the gas broad, strong lean force, dehumidification sweating, diarrhea. Tibetan medical text "Jingzhu Materia Medica" more barley as an important drug, used in the treatment of a variety of diseases.

Diet

1, β-glucan: According to the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry information, barley is the world's wheat crops in the β-glucan the highest crops, according to the detection of barley β-glucan average content of 6.57%, the best varieties of barley 25 can be 8.6%, the average content of 50 times wheat. β-glucan By reducing the intestinal mucosa and carcinogenic substances and indirectly inhibit the contact of carcinogenic biological role in the prevention of colon cancer; through the lowering of blood lipids and cholesterol synthesis to prevent cardiovascular disease: through the control of blood glucose prevention and treatment of diabetes. Has to improve the body's defense ability, the role of regulating physiological rhythms. Another according to U.S. scientific research shows that, in addition to β-glucan, barley also contains a specialized cholesterol inhibiting factor, the content of which is about 100-150 milligrams per kilogram.

2, dietary fiber: barley's total therapeutic fiber content of 16%, of which 9.68% insoluble therapeutic fiber, soluble therapeutic fiber 6.37%, the former is 8 times that of wheat, the latter is 15 times that of wheat: a glucan content of 6.57%, only 0.1 percent lower than that of oats, is 50 times that of wheat. Dietary fiber has intestinal laxative, remove toxins in the body of good effect, is the human digestive system scavenger.

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Branched-chain starch: barley starch composition is unique, generally containing 74-78% of the branched chain starch, in recent years, the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry cultivated new varieties of barley 25 branched-chain starch to reach or close to 100%. Branched chain starch contains a large amount of gel mucus, which is weakly alkaline when heated, and has an inhibitory effect on excessive stomach acid. The lesions can play a role in relieving and barrier protection.

4, rare nutrients: per 100g barley flour contains thiamin (vitamin B1) 0.32mg, riboflavin (vitamin B2) 0.21mg, 3.6mg of niacin; vitamin E0.25mg. These substances have a positive effect on the promotion of human health and development of relations.

5, trace elements: contains a variety of beneficial to human health inorganic elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, zinc and trace elements selenium and other mineral elements. Selenium is the United Nations Health Organization to determine the essential trace elements, and the organization is currently the only identified anti-cancer elements.

Barley can be brewed barley wine. Is the main raw material for Tibetan people to make tsampa, barley fried and ground into noodles with ghee tea to eat, people will also be mixed with barley and peas to make tsampa, barley is relatively rich in nutrients, from the information contrast Tibetan people's staple food tsampa, the nutritional value of the nutrition is not less than that of other cereals, some nutrients are also higher than the other cereal food, barley made of tsampa is not only the traditional food of the Tibetan people, and As Tibetan food in Lhasa's main hotel, become an important food for foreign guests.

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The Tibetan people in religious festivals, but also throw tsampa, to show blessing; in the grand simmering sangsang, people not only to the fire sprinkled with water, but also into the tsampa and so on. Tibetan folk song sings: you ignite the snow fence, I burn up the tsampa ...... the charm of this tsampa culture is rare in other ethnic groups.