Wheat is neither rice nor flour. Wheat is a general name of the genus Triticum, which is a cereal crop widely planted all over the world. The two river basins are the earliest areas in the world, and China is one of the earliest countries in the world.

Is wheat rice or flour?

Wheat is one of the three major cereals, almost all of which are edible, and only about one sixth of which is used as feed.

The caryopsis of wheat is one of the staple foods of human beings. After being ground into flour, it can be made into bread, steamed bread, biscuits, noodles, etc., and after being fermented, it can be made into beer, alcohol, liquor or biomass fuel.

Wheat is rich in starch, protein, fat, minerals, calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid and vitamin A, etc. Due to different varieties and environmental conditions, the nutritional components are also quite different.