Nowadays the higher nutritional value of whole grains compared to refined grains is recognized. In the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in the ancient wheat varieties for producing high-value food products with enhanced health benefits. This study compared two ancient grains, two heri...
Olive trees larger than any I have since seen, and fruits and grains that were in demand at the table of Apicius. So my Grandmother told me. Did you have any favourite toys as a child? Any cherished memories? Toys? I was my Fathers only son, and expected to follow in his footsteps....
Before the advent of watermills, peasants were forced to wait over longtime to grind their grainsFootnote 103. In the presence of watermills as machine-driven, cost-reducing, income-generating, time-saving, and high-capacity technology, villagers could increase the size of their lands, and ...
I have searched all over the world to find clean grains that are not contaminated, and focused on ancient grains that had not been hybridized to increase the gluten elasticity so coveted by bakeries to help breads rise quicker.
Finally, particular starch grains were morphologically identified as those of the rhizome of Nuphar lutea (yellow water lily). Water lily starch grains (not yellow water lily) have been found also in Neanderthal dental calculus30. For the Neolithic and Copper Age periods, 18 samples were analysed...
Learn how to cook ancient grains and related grains such as quinoa, freekeh, bulgur wheat and barley with this visual guide!
The identified Zea mays pollen grains of all cores ranged between 65 and 90 microns. Additional pollen slides from the different cores were scanned for Z. mays to avoid missing grains. Zea mays was identified using size and pore morphology, and in doubt phase contrast was used. Zea mays ...
Certain cooking methods can lessen the negative impact of phytates and oxalates on absorbable magnesium. For example, traditional diets commonly include sprouted and fermented grains and legumes. Scientists have now recognized the ability of these techniques to reduce the ability of phytic acid to bon...
While wild oats and wild rye are thought to have been weeds in wheat or barley fields before being domesticated and could have been domesticated in the context of mixtures (Hancock 2004; Zohary et al. 2012), mixed cultivation may have started with wild grains. A mix- ture of wild barley ...
20). Rotational striations can also theoretically occur through dislodged grains from the drilling process, acting as abrasive agents (called ‘auto-abrasion’ in lithics studies; Cotterell and Kamminga, 1990, p. 158). A last terminological distinction can be made between through holes – ...