Mixed grains pinyin: zá liáng.

Mixed grains usually refers to grain and bean crops other than the five major crops of rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and potatoes. The main ones are: sorghum, grain, buckwheat (sweet buckwheat, buckwheat), oats (Avena sativa), barley, millets, millet, Job's tears, seed amaranth, as well as kidney beans (kidney beans), mung beans, soybeans (red kidney beans, adzuki beans), fava beans, peas, cowpeas, lentils (soldier beans), black beans and so on.

It is characterized by a short growing period, a small planting area, a special planting area, a lower yield, and is generally rich in nutrients. Coarse grains are good for diabetesReplacing some of the fine grains with coarse grains helps diabetics control their blood sugar.

Research has shown that the postprandial blood glucose changes after eating coarse grains and legumes are generally smaller than wheat and ordinary rice, reducing blood glucose fluctuations within 24 hours, lowering fasting blood glucose, reducing insulin secretion, and facilitating blood glucose control in diabetic patients.

Historical origin:

Qing Xue Fucheng "should be imperial decree Chen speech疏"："Banner soldiers, not accustomed to rice food, often by the cattle record Zhangjing collar rice easy money, folded to the soldiers, buy miscellaneous grains to fill food."

Twenty Years of Witnessing the Strange Present Situation, the second six: "The original countryside is very bitter, planted rice are sold, they only eat some miscellaneous grains." Hong Shen, "Fragrant Rice," Act I: "My family is all mountainous, with thin soil, so I can only grow miscellaneous grains once a year."

The saying "five grains and miscellaneous grains" appeared in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, "Analects of Wei Zi:" "The four bodies are not hard, the five grains are not divided. But the interpretation is different, one said that the millet, millet, wheat, beans, rice; one said that the millet, millet, wheat, beans, hemp.

The main difference between these two statements is the presence or absence of rice and hemp, the reason for the disagreement, because the crop was not more than five, "a hundred grains", "six grains" and "nine grains "said the existence of a clear evidence, and the crop types around the existence of differences caused by.