THE THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS OF BARLEY GRASS

Barley grass powder is the best functional food that provides nutrition and eliminates toxins from cells in human beings; however, its functional ingredients have played an important role as health benefit. Barley grass is rich in functional ingredients, such as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), flavonoids, saponarin, lutonarin, superoxide dismutase (SOD), K, Ca, Se, tryptophan, chlorophyll, vitamins (A, B1, C, and E), dietary fiber, polysaccharide, alkaloid, metallothioneins, and polyphenols.

BENEFITS OF BARLEY GRASS

 Barley grass

• promotes sleep; 
• has antidiabetic effect; 
• regulates blood pressure; enhances immunity; 
• protects liver; 
• has anti-acne/detoxifying and
•  antidepressant effects; 
•  improves gastrointestinal function; 
• has anticancer, 
• anti-inflammatory,
•  antioxidant, 
• hypolipidemic, and
•  antigout effects; reduces hyperuricemia; 
• prevents hypoxia, cardiovascular diseases, fatigue, and constipation; 
• alleviates atopic dermatitis; 
• is a calcium supplement;
•  improves cognition; and so on.

These results support that barley grass may be one of the best functional foods for preventive chronic diseases and the best raw material of modern diet structure in promoting the development of large health industry and further reveal that GABA, flavonoids, SOD, K-Ca, vitamins, and tryptophan mechanism of barley grass have preventive and therapeutic role for chronic diseases. This paper can be used as a scientific evidence for developing functional foods and novel drugs for barley grass for preventive chronic diseases.