Wheat 🌾 is the most important grain crop grown all over the world.
But how much do we know about wheat?
Here are some interesting facts about wheat 👇
1. Wheat is one of the most common cereals in the world, it was domesticated by humans many millennia ago, nowadays it is very rare to find it in the wild.
2. In America and Australia, wheat was unknown before Europeans arrived there.
3. Spelt is the oldest known variety of wheat. Archaeologists have found that people ate it as early as the Neolithic period.
4. Wheat appeared in our country in the fourth to third millennium BC.
5. The word “wheat” in the Ukrainian language comes from the Old Slavic word “p’shcheno”, which means “to rub” or “pound”.
6. Wheat is used to make not only flour but also alcohol.
7. Wheat is widely used in medicine. The useful properties of this cereal are mentioned in the works of Hippocrates.