bread wheat
Flour crop species
Bread wheat is the most widely cultivated species of wheat, used primarily for making bread and other leavened baked goods.
Its high gluten content gives dough elasticity and allows it to rise well.
Also called common wheat, it accounts for the vast majority of global wheat production: Most flour in your pantry comes from bread wheat.
- flourMilled grain powder
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- fieldArea of specialty
- gluten contentWheat protein concentration
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
rising dough · chaff · kernel · sourdough · Fertile Crescent · gluten · cereal · sheaves · amber waves · harvest time · genus · threshing · crust · staff of life · baking · yeast · kneading · stalks
- Wheatemmer, spelt, durum, farro, kamut
- wheat farmingkernels, gluten content, threshing, winnowing, chaff
- wheat industryflour, milling, grain farming, cereal production, harvest
- polyploidsbananas, strawberries, sugarcane, seedless watermelon, banana
- wheat types
- grain tradegrain market, grain exchange, grain exports, grain prices, grain futures
bread, wheat, breads, breaded, breading, breadwinner, breadbasket, breadfruit, breadcrumb