Someone claimed that the food grains have accompanied the journey of humanity, perhaps even before the discovery of fire. But searching for the food, the man realized that collecting the seeds of these grasses had more advantages than other plants because it kept a long time and they were easily portable and more nutritious. Therefore, seeds were logical to be the first efforts for cultivating the land heads towards cereals.
The oldest plant form seems to have been planted by humans is Barley. It found in a French village. This activity amounted to about thousand years. After the first attempts made with barley, the cereal crops were extended according to climate and land: the Mediterranean cultivates wheat, oats. Rye plants in the north, sorghum in Africa, rice in Asia, maize in America.
It was about these "plants of civilizations" that oganizzò the entire life of the various companies.
Around three thousand BC in Egypt, wheat was selected to plant already. And a thousand years later there was the corn is planted. Also, around the same period, rice was cultivated in China on a large scale.
Classical mythology was influenced by the importance of social and cultural cereals accounted for human survival. Among the Romans, Ceres goddess of earth and fertility(Greek Demeter), was honored with many cults. The poets described it with the hair made of golden crops, and she was assigned inventions such as plowing, oxen yokes and grind.
The number of varieties of cereals, which is fed to today is remarkable. The most popular types are classified according to the shape of their consumption:
- Whole or flours (wheat, corn, rice and barley)
- Flour or flakes (oats, rye ,buckwheat ,miles and sorghum)
- Intact(spelled)
You may well remember the different types of bread, pasta and rice, pasta Neapolitan, soups of Trentino Alto Adige, the mixture of barley and bean soup from Friuli, the soup of farro soup and the Umbrian Countryside.
