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Wheat, Rice, Maize and Other Major Grains

Gathers the large cereal crops that supply a great share of the world's staple calories, together with their close wild and ancient relatives. It includes rice, wheat and its older forms such as spelt, emmer, einkorn, Khorasan wheat and farro, maize, barley, rye, oat, sorghum and the cereals triticale, wild rice, African rice, glutinous rice, Job's tears and whole wheat berries. Within the Cereal Grains, Pseudocereals and Pasta subcategory it sits beside the groups Millets and Regional Small Grains, Pseudocereals, Flours, Meals, Starches and Bread, Pasta and Noodles, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.

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