Now pearl-barley porridge is available to each person. But it is worth noticing that it isn't so popular as oats or fig. Useful properties of pearl barley are very important for children and people of advanced age.

In the ancient time pearl-barley porridge was considered as an imperial dish, and not each peasant was able to afford such delicacy.  To please imperial persons, court had to soak grain of 20 hours, then cook it in milk, bake thoroughly porridge in the furnace. 

It contains a huge amount of vitamins: A, D, E, PP and full group of vitamins B.

* Vitamin A is necessary for improvement of sight and protection against infections; vitamin D strengthens bones and teeth; vitamin E prevents presenilation, and vitamins of group B are responsible for the coordinated work of nervous system, beautiful hair and clean skin.

* Pearl barley contains biologically active agents and microcells:  calcium, iron, is present also copper, manganese, zinc, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, strontium, chrome, iodine, bromine. 

* Main "miracle" of pearl barley - phosphorus which contains almost twice more useful properties, than other cereals.

Phosphorus not only is necessary for the best metabolism and good work of a brain, but also is registered "as the main microcell for athletes".

* Cellulose in pearl barley is twice more than in wheat. The protein which is in its grain, surpasses a nutrition value of protein of wheat.

* Broth of this cereal has a set of medical properties: softening, enveloping, anti-inflammatory, diuretic effect. By means of barley treated diseases of mammary glands, got rid of locks and obesity, cough and cold.

* At allergic diseases doctors advise surely to use pearl-barley porridge. 

* Pearl barley can simply apply for a rank "beauty porridge". It contains such substance as a lysine (amino acid) which actively participates in collagen formation. It is known what exactly it does skin elastic and elastic, process of emergence of wrinkles slows down.

* Nutritionists advise to use pearl barley that who wishes to leave extra kilos, after all nourishing porridge contains the substances interfering adjournment of fat and a large amount of cellulose which brings toxins and slags out of an organism.