Wheat is the name given to that plant belonging to the seed family and that has terminal spikes that are made up of three or more gallops of grains, from which, once crushed, they result in the flour.
As with other cereals, the word wheat, in addition to designating the plant, still designates its embryos. Along with corn and rice, wheat is one of the three most produced grains on the entire planet and even the one that has been consumed the most by human individuals since very remote times. It should be noted that its beginning dates back to Mesopotamia (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey) some seven thousand years ago.
Meanwhile, it would not be but even its cultivation in a conscious and careful way that wheat would produce constant and sound edible for the whole world, since in the wild or original state, it could not in any way have become one of the most popular foods.
Yellow is its characteristic color and its main uses are: to make flour or starch (as mentioned at the beginning), beer, whole wheat flour, semolina and an important variety of foods. The increase and the advance of wheat require equivalent specific climatic conditions such as: temperatures that oscillate between 3 ° and 33 ° C, being between 10 ° and 25 ° the most appropriate; need for humidity between 40 and 70%; It has a low liquid obligation, from 400 to 500 mm. per cycle; and the most satisfied floor will be that loose, deep, fertile and free of floods.
On the other hand, candeal wheat is a type of wheat that is whiter than the traditional one and that boasts a higher class. Its main privileges include: sizing, blade, phytosterols, gluten and cellulose. Currently, China is the nation that leads the universal production of wheat, ousted the Soviet Union that occupied the throne for years and years, then followed by India and the United States.
It is worth mentioning that, in the popular language, it is constant that we find the use of the term wheat contained in an expression: not be clean wheat (which is applied to an inhabitant or a subject when they do not turn out to be clear or transparent, as expected).
