Between human alimentation, animal feed and use in industry, its presence in our daily life is essential.
Soft wheat used to manufacture a variety of products necessary to our alimentation such as flour, bread, biscuits, cereal bars, soups ...
Uses:
It can be classified in three categories, bread wheat, biscuit’s wheat and livestock feed’s wheat.
Each one of these categories includes hundreds of different varieties grown according to both their quality and to their outlet.
When it is bread or biscuit, soft wheat falls into the composition of bread and biscuits, which it brings a wealth of carbohydrates and proteins. The flour is obtained at the end of successive grinding and sieving of the almond contained in its grains. The envelope of its grains in other words called the sound, enters in the making of certain loaves. Therefore the wheat germ can be extracted as a seasoning oil, rich in vitamin E.
When the wheat is fodder with high energy content, it is used as a feed for poultry and livestock.