[Sca-cooks] cereals (was food safety/food preservation question)
Tom Vincent
Tom.Vincent at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 16 19:11:13 PDT 2006
Buckwheat and amaranth (and quinoa) are seeds, not grains -- or grass
fruits (caryopsis) -- by the way. So they're not cereals, but can be
used in place of cereals. Cereals are the fruits (grains) of grasses,
not just the seeds.
Duriel
Arianwen ferch Arthur wrote:
> Rice is also a grass. Collectively, the grain
> producing grasses (wheat, oats, corn, rice, etc.) are
> referred to as cereal grasses. When you include
> plants like buckwheat and amaranth, the collective
> term is cereals.
>
> Bear
>
> My OLD, classroom definition of cereal was the edible
> seeds of cultivated grasses so there were 5 cereal
> grains (oat, wheat, barley, rice, corn/maize) and
> getting students to differentiate between cereals and
> cereal products (even though you tell them in class
> that lucky charms are a cereal product...)
>
>
> Arianwen ferch Arthur
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