What are the five kinds of five-color grains?

Five-color grains are golden corn, brown highland barley, silver-gray soybean, dark black buckwheat and egg-yellow wheat.

Corn belongs to Gramineae, also known as corn, corn cob, maize, pearl rice, etc.

Highland barley is rich in nutrition, its nutritional value is higher than that of rice, corn and common wheat, and its calorific value is large, which can satisfy hunger and keep out the cold.

Soybean is a crop with rich seeds in protein. Soybean is most commonly used for making various bean products, extracting soybean oil, brewing soy sauce and extracting protein.

Buckwheat, commonly known as buckwheat seeds, carbohydrates are mainly starch. Compared with other grains, it is easy to cook, digest and process because of its fine particles.

The main components of wheat are carbohydrate, fat, protein, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and nicotinic acid, and there is also an allantoin component.

History and culture

There is a saying that European civilization is wheat civilization, Asia is rice civilization and Latin America is corn civilization. Mexico and Central America are the cradles of corn. According to archaeological findings, there was wild corn here as early as 1 10,000 years ago, and the history of planting corn in India has been 3,500 years.

Archaeologists discovered the remains of corn culture from 7000 BC to 1540 AD in Tevacan Valley of Puebla, which shows how ancient Indians gradually began to pick wild fruits and transitioned to artificial corn cultivation when hunting activities became scarce.

The long history of corn culture has enabled Mexicans to temper their corn planting and processing technology to the extreme. In Mexico, there are not only white corn and yellow corn, but also dark blue corn, dark green corn and purple corn, as well as colored corn mixed with red, blue, green, white and yellow. Mexicans make a wide variety of corn foods, and there are new creations.