Carbohydrates 68%
Protein 12%
Fat 2%
Fibre 3.5%
Water 13%
Ash 1.5%
Uses
The crop is grown mainly for its grain which is used in:
i. Malting and brewing of beer
ii. Human food
iii. As livestock feed. Barley is equal to maize in feeding value when feeding dairy cattle and is about 95% the feeding value of maize when feeding pigs. Can be made in mash and feed poultry
As an ingredient of baby food. Barley may be cut and made into hay while the plants are still green.
iv. Grain is used to make medicine use to lower blood sugar level, blood pressure, cholesterol, preventing cancer, and diarrhea and stomach pains.
Beer Making
-Low nitrogen content is needed for beer making.
-Making of beer involves two major processes namely: Malting and brewing
1.Malting
-It involves controlled germination process which produces acomplement of enzymes which are able to convert cereal starch to fermented sugars. This facilitates adequate release of and supply of amino acids and other nutrients for yeast and to modify the quality of macromolecules which has important effects in the physical quality of beer.
2.Brewing
-The process of converting starch to alcohol
-First by transforming starch to sugars and then fermenting sugar to alcohol by means of yeast.
-Almost 75% of starch in malting barley is fermented to alcohol.
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