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Wheat

A cereal used in a large number of products, especially food. Wheat is contained in bread, cake, beer, pasta and even some fuels. Wheat is a major commodity and its contracts are traded on exchanges.

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Consumers' preference for bread that's been made with refined flour, not whole wheat flour, is partly due to the different aroma of whole wheat bread.

Electronic nose discriminates between volatiles of refined, whole wheat bread

White wheat kernels are more plump and larger than red wheat kernels, have a softer texture than hard wheats, but are usually poor in gluten strength.

Properly stored wheat will last a long time

Youssef Mostafa, GASC representative from Egypt said: "Now that the UK is an approved supplier of wheat for our country, it was really good to have the opportunity to try UK wheats and see for ourselves how suitable they are for our bread.

British wheat rises to world bread taste test

However, she notes, the new wheats give up to 50 percent higher yields than the original green revolution lines and yields similar to the best commercial yields today.

The ultimate crop insurance: a new treaty strives to save 10,000 years of plant breeding

Average wheat varieties could be given superior bread-making qualities, thanks to genetic technology developed at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville.

Helping wheat make better bread. (Genetic Engineering)

So, in the 1940s, they rejected soft wheats having a high protein strength--a trait associated with hard wheats.

Let them eat cake: you can have your cake and eat bread, too!

Durum wheats don't have gluten, and that's why we use them to make spaghetti today.

Billions Served

March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- WFS Financial Corporation, the parent company of Wheat, First Securities and other subsidiaries, becomes Wheat First Butcher Singer, Inc.

WHEAT FIRST BUTCHER SINGER COMBINES NAMES, REFINES LOOK

However, the plant will produce both crackers for Bremner and cereals for Ralcorp's Ralston Foods subsidiary using the shredded wheat technology.

Ralcorp board approves capital for cereal and cracker technology

A new classification system, developed for international buyers of UK wheat, has been launched at the European Grain Bourse in Paris.

Branding is to aid wheat buyers

Durum prices vary more from year to year than prices of other wheats.

Baking Sure New Wheats Measure Up

Whole wheat or white, rye or pumpernickel, oatmeal or seven-grain; they all give you a nice shot of complex carbohydrates, which any self-respecting health authority will tell you to eat more of.