Wheat bread

Below are some fun facts about wheat from the Wheat Foods Council. More than 17,000 years ago, humans gathered the seeds of plants and ate wheat bread. After rubbing off the husks, early people simply chewed the kernels raw, parched or simmered. Tigris and Euphrates river valley, near what is now Iraq.

Wheat, used for white bread, pastries, pasta, and pizza, has been the principal cereal crop since the 18th century. Wheat was introduced by the first English colonists and quickly became the main cash crop of farmers who sold it to urban populations and exporters. Wheat is the primary grain used in U. Wheat is grown in 42 states in the United States.

Six classes bring order to the thousands of varieties of wheat. 4 billion bushels of wheat on 63 million acres of land. In the United States, one acre of wheat yields an average of around 40 bushels of wheat. About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically.