Material Characteristics, Processing and Utilization of Dehulled Adlay

由於薏仁的營養價值高又對人體具有特殊生理機能，故自古以來不僅被用為滋養強壯齊j ，亦為漢藥方的重要材料。在中國和日本的民間療法中，薏仁被認為具有健脾益胃、利尿、消炎和抗腫瘤等功效。在近代醫學報告上，已證實薏仁中含有抗腫瘤的薏仁醋，降血糖的水溶性多醣，可抗過敏的含酚類化合物，以及新抗菌物質等特殊生理機能性成分。薏仁的加工產品雖然種類很多（例如薏仁茶、薏仁醋、薏仁雪花片、福康等），但其產量不大。薏苡適合國內種植，因此發展薏苡加工業似乎值得重視。 Dehulled adlay has long been used as nourishment foods and traditional Chinese medicine due to its high nutritional value and physiological effect on human body. It is recognized that it has stomachic, diuretic, antiphlogistic, and anti-tumor effects in the folklore in China and Japan. Modern medical reports have confirmed that it contains anti-tumor component (coixenolide), water-soluble polysaccharides ( coixans ) ,that can lower plasma glucose level, anti-histamine constituents (benzoxazinoids) and new antimicrobial substances (coixindens), etc. Many kinds of processed foods such as tea, vinegar, flakes and “Fukan” have been produced in Taiwan, but their production scale is not very large. Adlay is suitable for cultivation here; therefore,it seems worthy to build up an adlay industry