Black sesame, also known as black sesame, flax, chrysanthemum and so on. It is the dried and mature seed of sesame. A species of Sesamum (Sesamaceae), with black surface, oblate oval shape, smooth or reticulate wrinkles and brown punctate hilum at the top, is produced in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei. Black sesame is a traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing liver and kidney in China, which has great medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine and health care experts often treat some diseases as medicated diets. Black sesame can be used as medicine and food, and is rich in lipids, protein, vitamins and minerals. It has been considered as a health care product since ancient times. Tao Hongjing, an ancient health care scientist, rated black sesame as "the best among the eight valleys". In recent years, with the admiration of Chinese medicine and health care experts for black food, black sesame and other black foods have gradually attracted people's extensive attention and research. In the domestic market, black sesame seeds are mostly processed into sauce, soup or sesame oil, and there are more and more nutritional and health foods based on black sesame seeds. In the deep processing of black sesame, sesamin, sesamin and melanin have been studied in China, but they have not been put into mass production. In this paper, the chemical composition, function and application of black sesame in recent years were reviewed, which provided the basis for further research and development of black sesame.

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