Green Barley (Barley Grass) for Treatment of CANCER - a review of 6 published papers and a deep dive

Papers reviewed:

• 2022 Feb.25 (Yijuan Xu et al) - Chemical Characterization and In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activities of a Hot Water Soluble Polysaccharide from Hulless Barley Grass

• 2021 Sep 9 (Daotong Li et al) - Dietary Barley Leaf Mitigates Tumorigenesis in Experimental Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer

• 2020 Nov.11 (Lemieszek et al) - Enhancement of chemopreventive properties of young green barley and chlorella extracts used together against colon cancer cells

• 2020 Feb.28 (Panthi et al) - Bioactivity evaluations of leaf extract fractions from young barley grass and correlation with their phytochemical profiles

• 2019 (Boanta et al) - Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.): Medicinal and Therapeutic Uses - Review

• 2017 May 3 (Sang Mi Woo et al) - Barley grass extract causes apoptosis of cancer cells by increasing intracellular reactive oxygen species production