Tartary buckwheat is a kind of food crop. Its scientific name is Tartary buckwheat. It has many aliases, such as tartary buckwheat, buckwheat leaf seven, wild orchid buckwheat, Wannian buckwheat, spinach wheat, black wheat, and flower buckwheat. ,etc. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Tartary buckwheat tastes bitter and is cold in nature. It can strengthen the intestines and stomach, replenish qi and strength, rejuvenate the spirit, benefit the ears and eyes, and remove the dregs of the five internal organs; "Qianjin Yaofang", "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" and related documents say: It has the functions of calming the nerves, activating qi and blood, lowering qi and widening the intestines, clearing away heat and swollen wind pain, removing accumulation and stagnation, clearing the intestines, moistening the intestines, laxative, relieving cough, relieving asthma, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, strengthening the heart, losing weight, and beautifying. .
Due to its bitter taste, tartary buckwheat is generally not made into food for human consumption except in difficult times. And because it is mainly produced in alpine mountainous areas, the yield is very low, and it is usually not deliberately cultivated as a main food crop. Tartary buckwheat has a long history as a raw material for wine making. In Longnan alone, the Di and Qiang people have used it as one of the raw materials for brewing Sagan wine, which has a history of more than 3,000 years. With the substantial improvement of people's living standards, health food and drinks have received increasing attention. The value of tartary buckwheat, which has the lowest sugar content among all food crops, has risen by leaps and bounds and has been favored by consumers. Therefore, bitter buckwheat has become a popular food. Buckwheat noodle steamed buns, tartary buckwheat tea, tartary buckwheat wine and other food and beverages have occupied a place in the market.
Longnan is a beautiful and fertile place that has given birth to all kinds of rich and rare products, and tartary buckwheat is a bright pearl of great use scattered across the land of Longnan. In the alpine mountainous area of ??Longnan with an altitude of more than 1,300 meters, a large number of small grains such as tartary buckwheat grow. It is a pure natural and pollution-free green plant. It is known as the "King of Grains" because it contains 18 kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body. It has various medicinal functions such as clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and cooling blood, nourishing liver and kidney, refreshing the mind and improving eyesight. In modern life, people regard tartary buckwheat series products as the first choice health food for lowering blood pressure, blood lipids and blood sugar. More importantly, the test report No. CQWT01 of the Food Road Testing Station of the State Administration of Light Industry (2001) shows that tartary buckwheat contains “selenium”, which is known as the anti-cancer king in the medical community. It can strengthen the body and strengthen bones. Active "calcium" and "zinc" and other trace elements that are beneficial to the human body. As a result, his fame and fortune increased sharply.
Longnan tartary buckwheat wine is born from the application of Longnan tartary buckwheat wine with the registered trademark "Shanqiao" brand. It uses tartary buckwheat as the main raw material, uses high-tech patented technology, combined with traditional craftsmanship, and is based on the principle of "medicine and food." "source" theory, carefully brewed using natural spring water. In 2004, it obtained the invention patent for tartary buckwheat brewing. In 2008, it won the Longnan City famous brand product and the "Houji Award" for the results of the 15th China Yangling Agricultural High-tech Expo; at the same time. The koji and packaging have also obtained national patents. In 2009, it was rated as the leading enterprise in the agricultural industry of Longnan City and the municipal "Women's Civilization Post"; in 2010, it was awarded the title of advanced unit of the China Association for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance's "Science Popularization Benefiting Rural Development Plan", and the "Mountain Buckwheat" trademark won the title of "Gansu Provincial Famous Trademark", national invention patent for tartary buckwheat wine making and special koji invention patent for tartary buckwheat wine, etc.
In recent years, Longnan has established the Longnan Tartary Buckwheat Professional Technical Association, and also established the Longnan Tartary Buckwheat Farmers Professional Cooperative, adopting the "company association cooperative base farmer" business model and adhering to large-scale, industrialized and standardized operations. The idea is to develop farmers to join the cooperative and let members help mobilize villagers to plant and purchase tartary buckwheat. The development association has more than 500 group members, radiating and driving more than 16,000 farmers, and developing 130,000 acres of tartary buckwheat base. The establishment of professional technical associations and farmers' professional cooperatives has formed a technical standard system and marketing system suitable for tartary buckwheat production from all aspects of planting, processing, and scientific research, tightly linking the interests of the company and farmers through the association's bridging role. At the same time, a stable community with no risks and no sharing of benefits has been formed, which has improved the degree of organization of the tartary buckwheat industry, mobilized the enthusiasm and initiative of farmers in tartary buckwheat producing areas, and accelerated the development of tartary buckwheat. The patented technology of tartary buckwheat brewing is transformed into real productivity.
The development of the tartary buckwheat base provides raw materials for the tartary buckwheat wine industry, which is important for adjusting the agricultural industrial structure, promoting agricultural efficiency and farmers' income, and driving farmers in the high mountainous areas and shallow forest edge areas of Longnan to get rid of poverty and become rich, and to promote industrialization and professional development of agriculture. Created a way.
The R&D and production of tartary buckwheat series products, especially the patented product tartary buckwheat wine, has filled a major gap in the domestic liquor industry. The majority of consumers evaluate Longnan tartary buckwheat wine as "excellent wine with unique ingredients and promising prospects"; through intensive processing of tartary buckwheat, refined tartary buckwheat powder, tartary buckwheat tea, tartary buckwheat noodles, tartary buckwheat vinegar and other buckwheat products are produced. A series of health food products are favored by consumers and have strong domestic and foreign market demand, showing huge development potential and broad market prospects. Some experts even predict that in the near future, Longnan tartary buckwheat wine will definitely become a popular product that goes beyond Longnan, to the whole country, and even to the world.
In the Longnan mountainous area, the yield of tartary buckwheat per mu is only 100 kilograms, which is 1/10 of the yield per mu of rice, sorghum, and wheat. However, the tartary buckwheat here is only sown and harvested in late autumn or early winter. This is It avoids the peak period of pests and diseases, so it does not need to be sprayed with pesticides. This is a truly natural, pollution-free green food, so it is beneficial to the body. Water is very important for the growth of plants. Most of the water used to irrigate Longnan tartary buckwheat is mountain spring water, which is sweet and delicious without any pollution.
Longnan tartary buckwheat wine is fermented with tartary buckwheat as the main raw material and fermented with high-quality grains such as millet and millet. It is rich in glucose, various amino acids, organic acids, polysaccharides and other ingredients, while also increasing the It contains physiological functional factors such as rutin, quercetin, and D-chiro-inositol, and has various biologically active substances such as antioxidant, blood sugar regulation, and prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
The raw materials and equipment are: tartary buckwheat, yellow rice, highly active dry yeast for brewing, active dry yeast for aroma production, and chemical enzymes. Roller extruder, water bath, belt press filter, rotary evaporator, concentrator, gas chromatograph, liquid chromatograph.
The technological process is: tartary buckwheat - washed leaves, soaked - broken - steamed - dried yellow rice - screened - washed, soaked - rinsed, drained - steamed ——Cooling--mixing ingredients (glucoamylase, rice wine active dry yeast, aroma-producing active dry yeast)--putting into the vat--saccharification and fermentation--filtration and juice extraction--preparation--sterilization--packaging of the product.
In order to avoid a boring narrative, the author will talk about a little episode.
There is a famous tartary buckwheat winery in Wudu District, Longnan City. Its name is "Kangshen", which probably means "God of Health". The boss's surname is Sun and she is a lesbian. Because of her decisive actions and aggressive style, she was known as "Sun Erniang". The author once said to her, half seriously and half jokingly: "Why don't you change the trademark of Kangshen Tartary Buckwheat Wine to Sun Erniang Tartary Buckwheat Wine? Sun Erniang is like thunder and is a household name throughout the country, more than Kangshen Niu!" But without her, he adopted it! .
When the author visited a tartary buckwheat winery in a neighboring province, he found that the buckwheat skins piled up in the workshop were black, so he told the boss that these were not tartary buckwheat, but sweet buckwheat. Because the author once worked in the countryside for training, I know the difference between tartary buckwheat and sweet buckwheat. The skin of tartary buckwheat is gray, while the skin of sweet buckwheat is black, and the particles of tartary buckwheat are slightly smaller than those of sweet buckwheat. It shows that the raw materials of tartary buckwheat are still in short supply. It is already good to use sweet buckwheat as a substitute. If there are not even buckwheat food crops, it will be even more unworthy of the name! From this, the author thinks that nowadays tartary buckwheat products are everywhere in supermarkets, and their raw materials are in such short supply. I am afraid there are not many genuine ones.
The reason why Longnan Tartary Buckwheat Wine is able to gain a foothold in the market and become famous is entirely due to the supply of authentic raw materials. Not cheating consciously and not passively, is the bottom line of a specialty product brand. As for how to become bigger and stronger, it is comprehensive. The author is not a businessman, so I won’t go into details.