China's food security and national health
usher in new opportunities
The reporter learned from the seminar on
"strategic significance of wheat aleurone layer" held in Beijing that
the physical separation technology of wheat aleurone layer has been overcome by
Jiaxing Sino Russian science and technology transformation center of Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Experts at the meeting believe that this high-tech
technology can effectively expand the scale of China's grain industrialization,
which is of great strategic significance to ensuring food security, increasing
grain output, improving grain quality and building a healthy China
Aleurone layer is the innermost layer of
wheat kernel cortex, between the wheat seed coat and endosperm. Although it
only accounts for 7% - 9% of the total weight of wheat grain, it is rich in
more than 70% of the main nutrients and essence of wheat.
Experts believe that wheat aleurone layer
has obvious effect on improving "three high", constipation and
obesity, and is an indispensable core content of whole grain food.
Since the end of 1980s, American
researchers found the value of wheat aleurone layer, international food
enterprises have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to study the
industrial application of aleurone layer. Researcher Wu Liang, one of the
project leaders, said that after eight years' efforts, Jiaxing China Russia
science and technology transformation center of Chinese Academy of Sciences has
finally developed the cyclone vortex micro nano separation technology, which
has solved the technical problem of industrial pure physical separation of
wheat aleurone layer for the first time. He said that wheat aleurone layer
separation method and separation technology equipment are in the world's
leading level, with independent intellectual property rights.
Wheat is one of the three internationally
recognized staple foods, which plays an important role in food security.
China's annual wheat production is more than 120 million tons, of which 20 to
30 million tons of wheat bran are mostly used as livestock feed.
At present, China's total number and growth
rate of chronic patients represented by "three high" are the world's
first, and the supply of healthy food has become the primary problem in
building a healthy China. Experts at the meeting believe that through the
promotion of this technology, China can obtain more than 10 million tons of
aleurone layer from the bran produced by wheat processing every year through
physical technology, which makes China's grain increase its grain production
with high technology, further ensure food security, and improve the quality of
grain, so as to achieve healthy eating.