Barley, also known as Job's tears, is widely grown in China, Japan and Vietnam.

I, geographic distribution

China's southeastern part of the common cultivation or escape, produced in Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions.

Born in warm and humid decagonal land and valleys and streams, more common below 2000 meters above sea level. It is distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia, India, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

II. Morphological Characteristics

Cabbage is an annual herb. The culms are 1-1.5 meters tall, with 6-10 nodes, much branched. Leaf blades broadly spreading, glabrous. Racemes axillary, male inflorescences located in the upper part of the female inflorescence, with 5-6 pairs of male spikelets. The glumes are large, oblong, between 5-8 mm in length, 4-6 mm in width, and 3-4 mm in thickness, and it is relatively hard, with a white or yellowish-white surface, broadly furrowed on the abdomen, and brown inside.

C薏米挑选技巧

1、看薏仁表面有无光泽，有光泽，颗粒饱满的质量较好。?

2, smell its odor, fresh Job's tears smell fresh and fragrant, if it smells bitter and fishy, more than aged Job's tears.

3, pinch, the better quality of Job's tears are generally full of hard particles, if a pinch of small crushed or slag powder, indicating that the quality is more general.

4, there is a point to pay special attention to, some poor-quality Job's tears contain aflatoxin, which is a carcinogen, so we must pay attention when buying.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Job's Tears

Baidu Encyclopedia - Job's Tears