Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry seed – with or without an attached hull or fruit layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legumes.

After being harvested, dry grains are more durable than other staple foods, such as starchy fruits (plantains, breadfruit, etc.) and tubers (sweet potatoes, cassava, and more). This durability has made grains well suited to industrial agriculture, since they can be mechanically harvested, transported by rail or ship, stored for long periods in silos, and milled for flour or pressed for oil. Thus, the grain market is a major global commodity market that includes crops such as maize, rice, soybeans, wheat and other grains.

Categories: Crop Ingredient Nuts & Seeds Staple food Types of Food root-category

Subcategories: Alica All-purpose flour Arborio^it Barley Barley flour Barley grass Basmati rice Bisquick Black rice Blue corn Bomba rice Bread Flour Breakfast cereal Brown rice Buckwheat Buckwheat flour Bulgur Cake flour Cereal Common wheat Corn Corn starch Cornmeal Cornmeal mush Couscous Curd rice Durum Einkorn Emmer Farina Farro Fermented rice Freekeh Fried rice Glutinous rice Glutinous rice dish Graham flour Granola Green barley powder Grits Groat Gruel Hard red spring wheat Hard red winter wheat Hard white wheat Hominy Hulless barley Israeli Couscous Jasmine rice Jollof rice Kasha Khorasan Lamb's quarters Long-grain rice Long-grain white rice Maida Malt Malt barley flour Maniputtu Masa^es Matta Matzo ball Matzo meal Medium-grain rice Mexican rice Millet Muesli Oat milk Oatmeal Oats Okoshi^jp-ro Pathiri Pearl barley Pilaf Porridge Puffed barley Puffed grain Puffed rice Puttu Quick-Cooking Grits Quinoa Quinoa flour Ragi flour Red yeast rice Rice Rice flake Rice flour Rice gruel Riceberry Rolled oats Rye Samba rice Samp Semolina Senia rice Sesame rice Short-grain brown rice Short-grain rice Short-grain white rice Sizzling rice Soft red winter wheat Soft white wheat Sorghum Spelt Sprouted grain Squid ink rice Tapioca Tapioca starch Teff Tempeh Tortilla Tortilla chip Trail mix Uruchimai^jp-ro Wheat Wheat germ Wheatberry White rice Whole wheat Whole wheat flour Wild rice Xafi^or