Barley is mainly distributed in the northwest of China, mainly Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and other places, barley if classified according to color, is divided into white barley, flower barley, black barley, purple barley and so on.

The barley ripening season

Mature month: barley is a cereal crop, generally mature in the fall of each year, the specific maturity of the time in August-September or so, usually around the 15th of August in the Tibetan calendar can be harvested.

Market price: barley production is relatively small, as the saying goes, things are expensive, and now the price of a catty of barley on the market in China is about 12-30 yuan.

Barley ripe look

Barley ripe, it's spike color yellow-brown or purple-brown, spikelets about 1 cm long, glumes linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate awn-shaped, both sides have small prickly hairs, glumes are easy to get out of the captive body when ripe.

Barley edible

Gastrointestinal insufficiency or suffering from chronic gastrointestinal diseases are not suitable to eat barley, often eat will aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines, in addition, high blood pressure patients are not suitable for eating barley.

Barley is known as "the cleanest grain", it contains high protein, high vitamin, high fiber, low fat, low energy, so when to eat are the same, if the conditions allow the best to eat every day to have a better effect.