2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The names of some types of wheat products, such as one and two grains einkorn, sepelta and kamut, until recently mentioned only by archaeologists and some more extravagant agronomists. Today, due to the threat of world hunger, they are back on the agenda.
With the global use of wheat, one- and two-grain einkorn have lost their function as a major supplier of starch. It was most widely used in the Fertile Crescent - the valleys of the Nile, the Jordan River, the Tigris River and the Euphrates, ten thousand years ago and later in the Balkans, Transcaucasia and the European Mediterranean.
However, the fame and proliferation they had then are unlikely to ever return. However, today they are gaining another kind of popularity. Einkorn and emery, as they are increasingly called, are proving to be great for organic production.
They are well adapted to extensive farming, as well as to more unfavorable growing conditions. In addition, the early cessation of artificial selection has left them much more resistant to mass diseases and the onslaught of greedy insects that cereals have to deal with through human chemical intervention.
One-grain and two-grain einkorn are a good alternative to wheat, as well as natural and environmentally friendly food. They have a much more balanced nutritional content compared to ordinary wheat.
The other two alternatives to wheat are spelled and kamut. While spelled appeared in the plowed fields almost together with einkorn, kamut is a relatively new product, which, however, claims a similar ancient origin.
Spelled is the probable precursor of bread wheat. It is a hybrid variant of two-grained einkorn and a type of wild wheat. The accumulation of genes allows it to grow in a wider range of conditions. It spread rapidly from Iran to Europe, where it remained an important crop for a long time. Nowadays, spelled yields exceed einkorn.
Kamut, on the other hand, although a new product, claims ancient origins. Its very name, according to the advertising presentation, is borrowed from the supposed ancient Egyptian word for wheat.
One legend even mentions that his grains were found in the tomb of a pharaoh in the late 1940s. It then moved to the United States and became widespread over the years. Today, this culture has a guarantee of quality and origin.
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