Cereals

  • With an annual world production of almost 400 million tones, soft wheat offers many opportunities.

    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.

  • Stony wheat is a cereal, a variety of wheat that developed in ancient times in the Mediterranean basin, known for its hard, vitreous grain.

    It is rich in protein and gluten.

    World production of stony wheat has reached 40 million tones in 2009 and then declined to 34 million tones in 2014.

    Stony wheat is mainly grown in warm, dry areas. Its productivity is lower than that of common wheat. Similar to other winter cereals, it takes up to nine months between the time the seed is sown and the harvest.

    Uses:

    Due to its hardness, stony wheat is not consumed as it is. It must be processed into semolina which is used mainly for the production of pasta and the production of couscous. The semolina is used in other dishes, and secondarily in pastry.