IDENTIFIER Grains

Know how your oats and buckwheat and barley grow? If you’ve got a grain of interest, our handy guide will help you separate the wheat from the chaff.

Barley Baked into British culture (and brewed in our beer and whisky) - it has inspired pub names from The Barley Mow to The Malt Shovel. Chia Originally from Peru and Bolivia, its name means ‘strength’ in Mayan. Punches above its 2mm seed size in nutritional stakes. Rye A favourite in central and eastern Europe. Particularly ingrained in Poland, with 32.4kg eaten per person per capita (it’s 0.9kg worldwide). Bulgar Not only delicious in a tabbouleh salad, these parboiled, dried and ground wheat kernels have even doubled as sand on film sets. Oats Forget sowing your wild oats, this cereal has been thoroughly domesticated- not least for porridge, and now also as the UK’s favourite plant-based milk. Teff Name comes from a word meaning lost, but many benefits are found in this Ethiopia and Eritrea petite powerhouse, like iron, calcium and…

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