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Cereal Grains, Pseudocereals and Pasta

Grass-family grains, the pseudocereals eaten the same culinary way, and processed grain products such as noodles, per USDA's Cereal Grains and Pasta group. Belongs here: Amaranth, Barley, Buckwheat, Maize, Oat, Pearl Millet, Quinoa, Rice, Rice Noodles, Rye, Sorghum, Spelt, Teff, Wheat. Does not belong here: a legume, grouped separately despite some overlapping culinary use, or a baked bread product, which is a dish entity rather than an ingredient.

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Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
6000 BCE 1
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1. Cereal (Wikipedia)
WikipediaCereal, History section, Neolithic domestication
Quote, Cereal, History section, Neolithic domestication
Cereals were domesticated in the Neolithic around 8,000 years ago.
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