Wheat Facts:
- Wheat can now be stored indefinitely before consumption provided “water content is below about 15% dry weight and pests are controlled.” (Oxford)
- 20% of the calories consumed by people are wheat products.
- History shows that the 1st wheat (Einkorn) was harvested over 10,000 years ago.
- Einkorn and Emmer wheat is the oldest form of wheat
- Wheat seeds were taken on long voyages and left in numerous places throughout the world
- Over 60 years ago, scientists began to hybridize wheat by combining emmer with unrelated wild grass.
- The goal was to increase the yield and create more adaptable wheat.
- And increase the gluten yield.
- This new wheat would be resistant to weather, pests and disease.
- Wheat has been altered and genetically modified numerous times since then.
- Today’s wheat is virtually unrecognizable to the original form.
- There are now over 25,000 different types of wheat.
- Over 600 million tons of wheat are harvested every year.
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