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Gruel may also be made from millet, hemp, barley, or, in hard times, from chestnut flour or even the less bitter acorns of some oaks. Gruel has historically been associated with feeding the sick [1] and recently-weaned children. Gruel is also a colloquial expression for any watery food of unknown character, e.g., pea soup.
Millet is the main ingredient in bánh đa kê, a Vietnamese sweet snack. It contains a layer of smashed millet and mungbean topped with sliced dried coconut meat wrapped in a crunchy rice cake. [57] In parts of Africa millet is mixed with milk to make a drink, Brukina. [58]
A seed that is classified as a whole grain, millet is often found in birdseed. This naturally occurring gluten-free cereal is full of minerals—such as potassium and magnesium—and packs a punch ...
Bran is highly nutritious, but is difficult to digest due to its high fiber content; its high fat content also reduces its shelf life as the oils/fats are prone to becoming rancid. As such, it is typically removed from whole grain during the refining process – e.g. in processing wheat grain into white flour, or refining brown rice into white ...
Proso millet is a relatively low-demanding crop, and diseases are not known; consequently, it is often used in organic farming systems in Europe. In the United States, it is often used as an intercrop. Thus, proso millet can help to avoid a summer fallow, and continuous crop rotation can be achieved.
3. Boiled Eggs. There's a reason your coworkers give you the side eye when you bring your hard-boiled eggs to the break room — they stink. Boiled eggs reek because sulfur-containing proteins in ...
Cereal grains: (top) pearl millet, rice, barley (middle) sorghum, maize, oats (bottom) millet, wheat, rye, triticale. A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize.
Unsurprisingly, hard red winter wheat has a higher gluten content than soft winter wheat, making it likely harder to digest for all us gluten-sensitives out there. Donato Fasano - Getty Images.