What Is Wheat?
Wheat is an ancient cereal grain grown for its seeds, which are milled into flour for a wide variety of uses. 95% of wheat crops grown throughout the world are of the common wheat species (Triticum aestivum), a domesticated cultivar also known as bread wheat.
Most people’s familiarity with wheat concerns the different kinds of flour it yields, rather than the different types of wheat varieties that the flour is made from. All-purpose flour is made from the endosperms—the starchy inner portion of the wheat kernel—of hard and soft red wheat, while whole wheat flour contains the nutrition-packed outer portions of the kernel, the bran, and the wheat germ. Bread flour, known for its tight, protein-packed structure, is typically made from hard red spring wheat, while soft pastry flour or cake flour is milled from a lower protein, milder soft white or hard white wheat.
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