在我国华北、西北高寒地区,每到夏季,农田里可以看到一种盛开着蓝紫色或雪白色鲜花的植物,这就是胡麻。胡麻(Linum usitatissimum L.)是亚麻科草本植物。全国播种面积约900万亩,在油料作物中,仅次于油菜、花生和大豆,居第四位。浑身是宝用途广泛胡麻的用途很广,它的种子含脂肪36.5—49.5％,油味芳香,油质好,主要供食用。由于它含有丰富的不饱和酸,碘价高,容易吸收空气中的氧气而迅速干燥,因而又是一种很好的干性油,广泛用于油漆、涂料、油墨等方面。胡麻的种皮含有6—10％的 In China’s northwest and northwest alpine areas, every summer, the farmland can see a plant blooming with blue-purple or white flowers, which is flax. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is a flax herb. The sown area in the country is about 9 million mu, ranking the fourth in oilseed crops after rape, peanut and soybean. Whole body is rich in use A wide range of uses of flax, its seeds contain 36.5-49.5% fat, oil aroma, good oil, mainly for food. Because it is rich in unsaturated acid, iodine price is high, easy to absorb oxygen in the air and quickly dried, so it is a good dry oil, widely used in paints, coatings, inks and so on. Flax seed coat contains 6-10%