Wheat Ears In The Field

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The Almighty has worked very hard to provide a satisfying existence for a person. He created about 11 thousand plant species, which botanists combined into the Cereals family. Of course, a person did not immediately take advantage of God's gift, but for centuries chose from such an abundance what was easier to grow, what was better digested by the stomach, replenishing the spent forces of the body. Some Cereals were even considered evil weeds until a person tasted their fruits

How to distinguish cereals from other plants

Plastic straws, which today are given out in cafes in addition to a glass of juice or cocktail, were borrowed by man from Zlakov. Exactly

hollow stem with a round cross-section, Cereals differ from other plants, which outwardly resemble them in their narrow leaves and spikelets-inflorescences.

For example, the Sedge, which looks like Cereals, has a triangular stem, filled with nutrients that will not allow the stem to be used as a straw.

A person is used to the fact that any regularity is sometimes violated. So Zlakov also has representatives who decided to break the rule and acquire a non-hollow stem. Such "upstarts" include, for example, Sugarcane. Since he gives a sweet treat, we will forgive him for such unseemly behavior.

As for the fruits of plants of the Cereals family, there is unanimity here. For all Cereals, the fruit is

weevil

Spelled - the main "bread" of antiquity

For the life of the Universe, 10 thousand years pass like one instant. But a person lives in another dimension and, looking back at these thousands of years ago, recalls with gratitude and admiration the inhabitants of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, who tamed Wheat.

In those legendary times, people grew spelled, one of the types of wheat. US

Spelled is familiar only from the tale of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, when one of the conditions of the contract between the priest and Balda was "boiled spelled", which the priest had to feed his employee. After all, spelled porridge was nutritious and tasty.

Although Spelled is drought-resistant, but yields are small, and therefore by the 20th century it remained only in fairy tales and historical books. And in the fields, new high-yielding types of Wheat have sprung up.

Spongy bread

But eating one porridge every day is very boring. The ancient Egyptians showed ingenuity that surprised the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. They began to subject wheat dough to a fermentation process or, as Herodotus wrote, to a decay process, while all normal people try to protect food from decay.

Today, such handling of the dough will not surprise anyone, and the hostesses boldly add yeast to serve spongy, fluffy bread decorated with a golden crust.

Wheat varieties

The main components of wheat fruits, like corn kernels, are

starch and proteins … Starch dominates, occupying up to 75 percent of the content.

The protein content in different wheat varieties is not the same. The less protein a grain contains, the weaker the wheat variety is considered, the more protein, the stronger the wheat variety. The knowledge of the "strength" of one or another variety is necessary for producers of wheat products, because depending on the percentage of protein in the grains, wheat flour behaves differently, creating dough of different quality.

Wheat is considered to be strong varieties, the grains of which contain more than 15 percent protein. Yeast dough, mixed with flour of this kind of wheat, is the magician who gives lush, spongy bread products.

So-called, durum wheat, in the grains of which the protein is from 20 to 26 percent, gives us semolina, pasta popular at all times. But growing durum wheat is much more troublesome and difficult, therefore, it is mainly grown

soft wheat, the grain of which is inferior in quality to the grain of durum wheat.