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Hulless or "naked" barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum) is a form of domesticated barley with an easier-to-remove hull. Naked barley is an ancient food crop, but a new industry has developed around uses of selected hulless barley to increase the digestibility of the grain, especially for pigs and poultry. [43]
Barley. Barley is an ancient cereal grain and the fourth most popular grain grown globally.While often used in beer production, it is a helpful grain to add to your diet as one cup of hulled ...
Groats (or in some cases, "berries") are the hulled kernels of various cereal grains, such as oats, wheat, rye, and barley. Groats are whole grains that include the cereal germ and fiber-rich bran portion of the grain, as well as the endosperm (which is the usual product of milling). Groats can also be produced from pseudocereal seeds such as ...
Loose smut of barley is caused by Ustilago nuda. [2] It is a disease that can destroy a large proportion of a barley crop. Loose smut replaces grain heads with smut , or masses of spores which infect the open flowers of healthy plants and grow into the seed, without showing any symptoms.
Nixtamalization (/ ˌ n ɪ ʃ t ə m ə l ɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / nish-tə-mə-lih-ZAY-shən) is a process for the preparation of maize, or other grain, in which the grain is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater (but sometimes aqueous alkali metal carbonates), [1] washed, and then hulled.
Pearl barley, or pearled barley, is barley that has been processed to remove its fibrous outer hull and polished to remove some or all of the bran layer. [ citation needed ] It is the most common form of barley for human consumption because it cooks faster and is less chewy than other, less-processed forms of the grain [ 1 ] such as "hulled ...
Hordeum murinum ssp. leporinum, known as hare barley, [6] mouse barley, [7] and barley grass. [8] This subspecies grows in tufts from 10 to 40 cm (4 to 16 in) in height, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and its flowers are attached to branches rather than to the main axis.
Wild cereals and other wild grasses in northern Israel. Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia, as opposed to more widespread cereals such as corn, rice and modern varieties of wheat, which are the product of thousands of years of selective breeding.