ABSTRACT
Grain is used in the United States as food for humans and animals, and also as a means of creating biofuel, a gas alternative. The term “grain” describes “a small, dry, oneseeded fruit of a cereal grass.”2 Cereal grasses include wheat and wheat varieties such as spelt, as well as barley, rye, triticale (a wheat/rye hybrid), oats, millet, rice, sorghum, and corn. Other plants that have edible seeds or fruits, such as amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa, and “wild rice,” are not technically cereals, as these plants are not members of the grass family, but are used in a similar manner in our diet, and thus commonly considered grains.
