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Barley gruel – type of porridge found in Danyang, Jiangsu.It is made from barley, rice and alkali.; Belila is an Egyptian porridge made from pearl wheat, cooked in a light syrup with anise seed and golden raisins, served with chopped toasted nuts and a splash of milk.
Wild cereals and other wild grasses in northern Israel. Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia, as opposed to more widespread cereals such as corn, rice and modern varieties of wheat, which are the product of thousands of years of selective breeding.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
First of a series of rust resistant varieties. Widely adapted, good quality. It made up 70% of the Canadian wheat acreage in 1953. Rescue, 1946, Apex × S-615 (solid stem type from Portugal via North America). C.D.A. Ottawa. It has a solid stem developed for sawfly resistance. Saunders, 1947, (Hope × Reward) × Thatcher.
It is a hard, bread wheat with straws 0.9 to 1.5 metres tall. [2] From the mid-1800s until the early 1900s, Red Fife was the dominant variety of wheat grown in Canada and the northern United States, prized for its hardiness, rust resistance, yield, and milling and baking qualities. [3]
Wheat is a significant source of vegetable proteins in human food, having a relatively high protein content compared to other major cereals. [89] However, wheat proteins have a low quality for human nutrition, according to the DIAAS protein quality evaluation method.
The archaeological excavations have provided thousands of pieces from the knapping of obsidian (suggesting that Aratashen was a centre of production and trade of artefacts of that highly regarded stone); the rest of the archaeological record consists mainly of fragments of common pottery, ground stones, and other agricultural tools. Analysing a ...
Miracle wheat (Triticum turgidum var. mirabile) During 10,000 years of cultivation, numerous forms of wheat, many of them hybrids, have developed under a combination of artificial and natural selection. [1] [2] This diversity has led to much confusion in the naming of wheats. Genetic and morphological characteristics of wheat influence its ...