Unique in the world, the super future food ─ Taiwan oil has seen the light of day! More nutritious than rice and wheat, resistant to drought, salt and stress

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Novel coronavirus's shadow shrouded the world, agricultural and grain experts warned that years of food crisis has reached the end of the city. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently said on its website, "the world is facing an approaching food crisis, and measures must be taken as soon as possible to maintain the global food supply chain and reduce the impact of the epidemic on the food system, otherwise the worst situation will occur in April and May."

This is not alarmist talk. Vietnam, the world's third largest rice exporter, has proposed to suspend rice exports. Kazakhstan, the world's largest exporter of wheat flour, has banned the export of wheat flour and restricted the export of root vegetables such as onions, potatoes and carrots. If the epidemic continues to worsen, coupled with the current pattern of climate change, countries must be more active in finding solutions to possible food crises.

At such a time, Taiwan's Youmang, which can resist drought, cold, salinization and other bad land and is known as "super future food," is being planted by Chiu Kui-chun, a farmer of Bunong people in Yanping Township, Taitung. On the other hand, research units such as the Central Research Institute have also launched a new wave of research plans on Yumang, and there are many ways to use it in business, waiting for the outbreak of karma.

Super Food ─ Youmang (Photography / Gu Biling) Super Future Food ─ Youmang is high in nutrients

Taiwan oil awn is a perennial plant of the genus Gramineae, with a height of 80-120 cm, and sometimes the stem is thick and lignified. Since ancient times, such as millet, red quinoa, tree bean and so on, they have been indigenous traditional crops.

According to the research of the Academia Sinica, the nutrition content of oil awn grain is much higher than that of rice, and the contents of fat, protein, calcium, magnesium and potassium are considerable, and it also contains glutamic acid, serine acid and other amino acids which are deficient in other grains.