How to Use Germinated Barley-mai ya and its extracts?

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Origin of Germinated Barley.

Germinated Barley Extract INCI Name Hordeum Vulgare Extract CAS 85251-64-5 EINECS ELINCS No 286-476-2 Fructus Hordei Germinatus photo picture image The processed product resulting from the fermentation and drying of the ripe grain of the genus Hordeum vulgare L. (barley), an annual cereal plant, of the grass family Gramineae.

 Barley cultivation probably originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and in Southeast Asia in prehistorical times. It is believed to extend back to 5000 BC in Egypt, 3500 BC in Mesopotamia, 3000 BC in northwestern Europe, and 2000 BC in China. Barley was the chief bread plant of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans and of much of Europe through the 16th century.

 Barley is adaptable to a greater range of climate than any other cereal, with varieties suited to temperate, sub-Arctic, or subtropical areas. Although it does best in growing seasons of at least 90 days, it is able to grow and ripen in a shorter time than any other cereal. Cultivation is possible even in very short seasons such as those of the Himalayan slopes, although the yield there is smaller than in less harsh areas.

 Barley, with greater resistance to dry heat than other small grains, thrives in the near-desert areas of North Africa, where it is mainly sown in the autumn. Spring-sown crops are especially successful in the cooler, moist areas of western Europe and North America.

 The annual world harvest of barley in the late 1970s was approximately 180,000,000 metric tons from about 246,000,000 acres. About half of the world's crop is used as livestock feed, the rest for human food and for malting. Most beer is made from malted barley, more than 10 percent of the world's crop being used for this purpose; malted barley is also used in the production of distilled beverages.

 Barley has a soft straw, used mostly as bedding for livestock and as a feed providing bulk roughage.

 Germinated barley is derived by soaking the barley corn in water at a properly maintained temperature and humidity, then taking the sprouts out when they grow to a length of about 0.5 cm and drying them for use when raw or after being parched.
 Germinated barley is produced everywhere in China.

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last edit date:25th,June.2009.