On Food and Cooking

Grain Whole Grain   Production, 2002

Millions    of  Metric  Tons

Maize 602

Rice 579

Wheat 568

Barley 132

Sorghum 55

Oats 28

Millets 26

Rye 21

Buckwheat 2

Source:  Food    and     Agriculture

Organization,   United  Nations

Einkorn Wheat Einkorn wheat, T.
monococcum, was rediscovered in the early
1970s in the Vaucluse region of France and
the southern Alps, where it was being grown
to make a local porridge. It was probably the