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A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize. Edible grain
Harvesting a cereal with a combine harvester accompanied by a tractor and trailer.
Cereal grains: (top) pearl millet, rice, barley (middle) sorghum, maize, oats (bottom) millet, wheat, rye, triticale
Threshing of grain in ancient Egypt
Roman harvesting machine
Grain
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A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit –with or without an attached hull layer–harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain c
Cereal
…A cereal is a grass (family Poaceae) cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize (US: corn…
Various food grains at a market in India
Cereal grain seeds clockwise from top-left: wheat, spelt, oat, barley
Barley
Rye