Black highland barley is a type of barley, mainly produced in Tibetan areas such as Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Shangri-La, Yunnan, and is the main food for the Tibetan people. It is currently the wheat crop with the highest β-glucan content in the world, which means that high-quality highland barley is expected to become the most valuable wheat crop.
As early as the late 1980s, American scientists discovered that β-glucan in barley, especially naked barley (highland barley), has the effect of lowering blood fat, lowering cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular disease. Later, β-glucan - The functions of glucan in regulating blood sugar, improving immunity, and anti-tumor have been discovered one after another, attracting widespread attention around the world. At present, the biomedical community generally believes that β-glucan has four major physiological functions: cleansing the intestines, regulating blood sugar, lowering cholesterol, and improving immunity. Some experts also believe that β-glucan has research value in studying anti-cancer effects.
According to relevant authoritative scientific research data, at present, the average beta-glucan content of wheat crops is 4.22%, with the highest being only 5.9%; foreign data such as the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia The average β-glucan content of thousands of varieties of wheat crops is less than 5%, and the highest does not exceed 7%. However, scientists found that the β-glucan content of “Zangqing 25” broke the world record, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the highland barley industry. A tonic was injected. New products such as "Highland Barley Lipid-Reducing Capsules", "Highland Barley Tea" and "Highland Barley Biscuits" have been trial-produced and developed, and the registration and approval of technology patents and new products are currently being carried out.
With the major discovery that the beta-glucan content of highland barley is the highest in the world, in recent years, my country's main highland barley producing areas have given full play to their resource advantages and stepped up the development of characteristic industrialization in accordance with market demand. Nowadays, more and more highland barley enterprises and highland barley products have emerged on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the industrial development of highland barley has been fully launched.
The reporter’s investigation revealed that as the market for processed highland barley products continues to expand, Shangri-La Hidden Dragon Enterprises in Tibet, Qinghai, and Yunnan have begun to develop products such as “highland barley instant noodles” and “highland barley biscuits.”
Tibet is one of the main producing areas of highland barley. At present, the planting area of ??highland barley in Tibet remains at about 130,000 hectares, accounting for 58% of the total cultivated area, and the annual output of highland barley reaches about 600,000 tons. In recent years, as scientific and technological experts have confirmed the nutritional and health-care functions of highland barley, highland barley has huge market development potential. At present, highland barley products such as highland barley noodles, highland barley steamed buns, and highland barley nutritional powder have been launched.
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Black highland barley is the best among highland barleys. Few outsiders know what black highland barley is. Of course, they are even less aware of its nutritional value and so on. . . . . .