Cornstalks

Corn is a very good food, rich in fiber, not only to promote digestion, but also to clear the bowels. But do you know, corn “hair is also a very good thing. Corn whiskers, also known as corn whiskers, corn whiskers and corn kernels, high fiber content can promote gastrointestinal motility, at the same time can diuretic. To know that urine and constipation will accumulate toxins, and corn husk can effectively laxative diuretic, the body intestinal waste out of the body. Of course, many babies will have questions, corn husk is really edible?

In fact, in 2012 corn husk has been classified as a common food, so every time you eat corn, you can leave the husk, clean it and make water to drink. Cornhusk contains flavonoids, polysaccharides, saponins, proteins, amino acids, as well as volatile oils and other biologically active ingredients, which can diuretic stone, lower sugar and lipid.

Application of corn husk

There are not many industrial applications of cornhusk yet, but a number of products have been developed. For example, drinks and health foods made from cornhusk extracts.

Plant Beverages

Plant beverages refer to beverage products made from plants or plant extracts as raw materials through processing or fermentation.

The national standard GB/T31326-2014 of “Plant Drinks” stipulates that it is allowed to use one or several kinds of plants or their extracts as raw materials with or without adding other food raw materials and/or food additives to be processed into beverages. Cornhusk can be directly made into plant drinks or compounded with other ingredients to make plant drinks. Such as herbal tea.

Functional Drinks

With the development of society, the progress of nutritional science research, people’s concern for their own health is increasingly strengthened. The purpose of consumers to drink is no longer limited to thirst quenching, the promotion of health, quality of life, physical and mental stress release has become the new expectations of people on beverage products. The formation of this consumer concept for the development of functional drinks has laid a solid market foundation, China has become the world’s second largest producer of beverages after the United States, China’s beverage market has become one of the fastest-growing markets in China’s food industry.

Yunnan Materia Medica recorded that cornhusk has the effects of calming the liver, inducing diuresis, diuretic, and draining heat. Experiments have also proved that cornhusk extract has the efficacy of lowering three highs, diuretic, antioxidant, etc. By utilizing cornhusk extract’s various beneficial effects on the human body, cornhusk functional beverage can be developed.

Functional food

Functional food is a concept that is not stipulated by national regulations. Refers to food with a specific function, can regulate the function of the body, and not for therapeutic purposes food, but only to the food on the functional labeling, not as a specific food category.

Cornhusk extract has many beneficial effects on the human body, can be used as a functional food raw materials, and other raw materials added to the functional food compound.

Health food

Experiments have proved that corn husk extract has the exact effect of lowering three highs, anti-tumor, anti-oxidation, etc. It can be directly made into health food, or compounded with other raw materials to make health food. It is a common raw material for health food.

Cornhusk has been used in capsules, oral liquid, sugar tablets and other state of the health food, its main health function is to regulate blood sugar, blood lipid regulation.