the wheat you eat
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The Wheat You Eat. How It’s Grown and Made Into Our Food. How Much Wheat Do You Eat?. Did you have cereal or toast for breakfast? Did you have a sandwich for lunch? Do you like to eat spaghetti, cookies or macaroni and cheese? Do you LOVE pizza?. Then You Eat Wheat!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Wheat You EatHow It’s Grown and Made Into Our Food
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How Much Wheat Do You Eat?
• Did you have cereal or toast for breakfast?• Did you have a sandwich for lunch?• Do you like to eat spaghetti, cookies or
macaroni and cheese?• Do you LOVE pizza?
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Then You Eat Wheat!
Wheat is the basic ingredient in many of ourfavorite foods.
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• 42 states in the U.S. grow wheat• Does our state grow wheat? If so, where?
Did You Know?
AlabamaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoDelawareFloridaGeorgiaIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontana
NebraskaNevada New JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming
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Did You Know?
• Wheat is a grain that people have been growing and eating in many ways, for thousands of years.
• Each kernel of wheat has three parts:
The outer layer is called the BRAN
The middle layer is called the ENDOSPERM
The inner layer is called the GERM
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• Each of those 3 kernel parts has nutrients that make our bodies strong:
FIBER makes you feel full after you eat
PROTEINS and CARBOHYDRATES give you energy
VITAMINS and MINERALS make you strong & healthy
Did You Know?
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Did You Know?
• Whole- grain foods are made using the whole kernel (all 3 parts) of the grain.
• Many foods we eat, like bread, pasta, crackers, and cereal, can be made with whole wheat. This means you are eating all 3 parts of the grain, and getting many important nutrients.
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Did You Know?
• Wheat food products can also be made from enriched flour. • This means they are made from flour that has been ground using endosperm only.• Many vitamins and minerals lost by not using the bran and germ are added back in. This is called “enriched.”• Enriched grains provide essential B vitamins which help us maintain a healthy body and increase energy.
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How Wheat GrowsFirst, the soil is worked. Today, some farmers use no-till planting, which does not disturb the soil, reduces soil erosion, uses less fuel and increases the amount of nutrients.
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Then the seeds are planted. Fertilizer may beadded to help the seeds grow.
How Wheat Grows
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The plants emerge from the ground and dependon nutrients from the soil and rainfall to growand develop.
How Wheat Grows
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Farmers monitor the wheat fields throughoutthe growing season for disease and pest issuesand work to protect the crop.
How Wheat Grows
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When the wheat stems are tall and begin to“nod,”or bend over, and the kernels are ripe and dry, it istime to harvest. They are a beautiful golden color.
How Wheat Grows
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Farmers use a big machine called a “combine” to harvest the stalks of wheat.
How Wheat Grows
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What Happens Next?When the combines fill up, they load the wheat into trucks.
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What Happens Next?The harvested wheat is stored in enormous grainbins, until it is moved to the next stage, the mill.
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How Wheat is MilledIn the milling process, the wheat is • Cleaned
• Separated
• Ground
• And may be enriched.
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• Wheat can be planted in the spring or the fall.
• It is an annual which means it must be planted each year, for each crop.
• It takes about 3 months for wheat to grow from seed to harvest in the summertime, and longer over the wintertime.
How Wheat Grows
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How Wheat is MilledAnd made into either whole wheat or white flour.
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Wheat Becomes Our Food!And from there, the flour is delivered to foodcompanies to combine it with other ingredientsand made into all kinds of foods we like to eat!
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How Much Wheat to Eat?
Grains like wheat are so important to our dietthat the nutrition experts say kids should eatfive or six servingsevery day! Three of those servings should be whole grains.
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How Much Wheat to Eat?
A serving is:
A Slice ofBread
A Cup ofReady to Eat
Cereal
Half a Cupof Pasta or
Cooked Cereal
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Wheat Gives Us
CARBOHYDRATES for energy
FIBER for digestive health
B-VITAMINS & IRON that helps keep our
bodies healthy
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Thanks To Our Wheat Farmers!