On Food and Cooking

the seed”) is often the only part of the grain consumed. It consists of storage cells that contain starch g ...

endosperm, germ, and bran make this separation possible: the first is easily fragmented, and the others are oily ...

the nutrients lost with the bran. Breakfast Cereals Apart from breads and pastries, the most common form i ...

since the dawn of civilization in the form of gruels, porridges, and congees. Corn grits, oatmeal, and cr ...

American mix of eccentric health reformers, fringe religion, and commercial canniness. In the middle third of th ...

profitable industry. Today there are several major varieties of ready-to-eat cereals: The Composition of Grains ...

Fonio 8753 Millet 13736 Sorghum 12744 Teff 9772 Triticale 13722 Amaranth 18578 Buckwheat 13724 Quinoa 13696 Muesli is a simp ...

spices, enriched with vegetable oil, toasted and mixed with nuts and/or dried fruit. Oven-puffed rice and co ...

Baked cereals follow in the mold of the 19th century original, C. W. Post’s Grape Nuts: dough of some so ...

Wheat Wheat was one of the first food plants to be cultivated by humans, and was the most important cereal in th ...

came in turn from an Indo-European root, ker, that meant “to grow”; the same root also led ...

goatgrass produced a wheat species with four sets of chromosomes, and this “tetraploid” species gave ...

wheats. It arose in the Near East and spread to the Mediterranean before Roman times, when it was one of two ...

Grain Whole Grain Production, 2002 Millions of Metric Tons Maize 602 Rice 579 Wheat 568 Barley 132 Sorghum 55 Oats 28 Mil ...

first wheat to be cultivated, around 10,000 years ago. It grows best in cool conditions, tends to ...

a risotto-like dish called farrotto. The Wheat Family Relationships in the wheat family are complicated a ...

Triticum turgidum (tetraploid): Emmer (hulled; T. turgidum dicoccum) Durum (T. turgidum durum) Khorasan ( ...

collected in Egypt were planted in Montana. It’s characterized by a large grain size and a high prot ...

Wheat Pigments Most wheat varieties have a reddish-brown bran layer that owes its color to various ...

rich in carotenoid pigments. Protein Content and Quality of Different Wheat Varieties Gluten quality determines the su ...