In the culinary world, there are one food that is quite popular, whole grains, known as cereals or grains. In the food pyramid, groups of cereals are very important because it is a source of carbohydrates or starches. Generally a member of cereal grains tribe called cerealia. The most famous members include rice, corn, wheat, and sorghum. In addition, there are few outside of the primary cereal grain, are also secondary cerealia, i.e. buckwheat, amaranth seed, and Quinoa.
Cereals are cultivated on a large scale throughout the world, exceeding all other types of plants and become the main energy source for humans and livestock. In some developing countries, ceralia are often the only source of carbohydrate. From the many of ceralia, only a few are known around the world, namely maize, wheat, and rice that reaches 87 percent of all grain production of the world.
Generally we eat cereal is not really a whole grain cereal grain, but only a portion of cereal seeds. Flour which we use for baking the raw material is endosperm (institution) of wheat ground and sifted, not whole wheat grains are ground.
Similarly rice, which we consume daily, is only the seed endosperm of rice, while the germ (embryo) and bran removed. In rice, the embryo accidentally separated as bran, with the aim to extend the power saving rice.
Research shows that the bran and the embryo of cereals are beneficial to health because the rich variety of nutrients and photochemical components. Therefore, it’s very unfortunate if the two sections divided as waste in the process.
Now developed food ingredients made from whole cereal seeds can be found in market, known as whole grains. In the whole-grain foods, whole seeds, starting from the outside of the seed (bran, bran), institutions (endosperm), and embryo (germ), are used.
It was rather difficult to find whole-grain sellers who are still in the form of seeds. But much processed whole grain products that are actually sold on the market, ranging from flour to form processed foods (such as whole meal bread, biscuits, oats, wheat crackers, and cereal oats mixed with milk).
Consumption of whole grains are useful as an antioxidant that can counteract free radicals as a cause of various health problems such as skin wrinkles due to aging, heart disease, stroke, to cancer. Research also shows whole grains can help control blood pressure for 10 hours after consumption.
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