Free-threshing cereals
Free threshing grains are cultivated grains whose fruits fall out of the husks when threshed . These include wheat , rye , naked barley and naked oats .
In contrast to this, spelled , (seed) oats , barley , emmer and einkorn are types of husk in which the seeds are fused with the husks. Because of the peeling process required when used for human nutritional purposes , they are more complex to process, but more resistant to pests.
literature
- Wilfried Seibel (Ed.): Warenkunde Getreide , Agrimedia, 2005, ISBN 3-86037-257-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Schlipf, Handbuch der Landwirtschaft, 32nd edition, Parey, Hamburg / Berlin, 1958, p. 150 on spelled