目前在日本出现了“薏米热”,凡是在食品中有薏米成分,产品就非常畅销。其主要原因是薏米作为药食兼用的植物种仁,具有许多药用功能。据中国药典记载,薏米有健脾补肺、清热渗湿、利尿消炎,镇痛排脓、去风湿、强筋骨等功效。近来实验证明在薏米中存在一种抗癌物质—薏米酯(coixendide),它是由一分子2,3—丁二醇与两分子不饱和脂肪酸(顺式十六烯酸 Currently in Japan appeared “barley fever”, where there is barley ingredients in food, the product is very popular. The main reason is that barley, as a kind of plant kernel for both medicine and food, has many medicinal functions. According to Chinese Pharmacopoeia records, barley spleen and lungs, heat seepage, diuretic anti-inflammatory, analgesic abscess, rheumatism, strong bones and other effects. Recently experiments have shown that there is a barley in the anti-cancer substances - barley ester (coixendide), which is a molecular 2,3-butanediol and two molecules of unsaturated fatty acids (cis-hexadecanoic acid