What is buckwheat? What is naked oats? What is wheat bran?

Alias: buckwheat, rye, triangle wheat, etc. Panicum miliaceum. The stem is erect, 30-90 cm high, branched at the upper part, green or red, with longitudinal edge, glabrous or papillate along one side of the longitudinal edge. The leaves are triangular or ovoid, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. The top is tapered, the base is heart-shaped, and both sides are papillae along the veins.

Buckwheat is a short-term crop, which likes cool and humid, and is not resistant to high temperature, drought, wind and frost. Buckwheat is distributed in most parts of China, and also in Asian and European countries.

Buckwheat is sweet and cool, which can stimulate appetite, moisten intestines and relieve depression. Treating colic, gastrointestinal stagnation and chronic diarrhea; At the same time, buckwheat can also be used to make noodles, music and bean jelly.

Naked oats:

Other famous wheat, Yumai and Zhongmai are plants of Gramineae and Oat, and their scientific names are "naked oats" or "naked oats", which are oat varieties originating in China. Culms are clustered, basal leaf sheaths are longer than internodes, often slightly hairy, and the tongue is about 3 mm long; The leaves are soft, the spikes are spreading, and the length is 12-20cm. The branches are slender and prickly.

The rachis of spikelet is tough, hairless and curved, and the length of the first internode is 65438 0 cm. Glumes are nearly the same length, lemma is soft, the first lemma is about 2 cm long, and the base plate is hairless, upright or recurved; Apex awn, separated from lemma. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to August.

Naked oats like cold and cool, drought-resistant, salt-alkali tolerant and short growing period, so the main producing area of naked oats in Shanxi Province is in the northwest of Shanxi Province, with a planting area of about170,000 hectares and a total output of14 ~150,000 tons, accounting for 10% of the whole country. Among the many naked oats varieties in China, Miaogou Village, Wuchuan County, Hohhot is the best one.

Wheat bran:

That is, wheat skin, by-products of wheat processing flour, wheat yellow, flakes or powder. Rich in cellulose and vitamins, it is mainly used in food, medicine, feed raw materials, wine making and so on.

The seed coat screened after wheat milling is the outer skin, mainly fiber, batter, some minerals and vitamins, which is sweet and cool and can inhibit sweating.

Wheat bran can reduce the risk of rectal cancer. An experimental study of patients in new york Hospital Medical Center found that eating two ounces of wheat bran every day can make early rectal polyps shrink within six months. At the same time, the study found that a diet rich in wheat bran can reduce the estrogen content of premenopausal women, thus reducing the risk of breast cancer.