Our founder, Jiali Jiang, is the genius behind Bright Barley. She grew up surrounded by barley in Aba, a region of China close to Tibet. Barley has played an important part in Tibetan culture for centuries. The people there live at high altitude, which limits the types of foods that can be grown – many can’t survive.
But not barley. This ancient grain is made of stronger stuff.

Jiali moved to the UK to study at Cambridge University. She saw that barley was also locally grown in Britain but had slipped off people’s nutritional radar. It was an underused superfood hiding right under our noses.

Jiali set out on a mission to make it easy (and tasty!) for people to soak up all of barley’s brilliant benefits. But how could Jiali breathe new life into this forgotten ancient grain?

How could she bring barley back?…
…by whipping up the freshest dairy free barley-based drink on the market.