Wheat Facts

• Wheat is grown in 42 states in the United States.
  
  
• Six classes bring order to the thousands of varieties of wheat. They are: Hard Red Winter, Hard Red Spring, Soft Red Winter, Durum, Hard White and Soft White.
  
  
• More foods are made with wheat than any other cereal grain.
  
  
• In the United States, one acre of wheat yields an average 37.1 bushels of wheat.
  
  
• About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically. (Source: USDA)
  
  
• The state of Kansas is the largest wheat producer in the United States with North Dakota a close second.
  
  
• One bushel of wheat contains approximately one million individual kernels.
  
  
• One bushel of wheat weighs approximately 60 pounds.
  
  
• One bushel of wheat yields approximately 42 pounds of white flour.
  
  
• One bushel of wheat yields approximately 60 pounds of whole-wheat flour.
  
  
• A bushel of wheat yields 42 commercial loaves of white bread (one-and-a-half pound loaves).
  
  
• A bushel of wheat makes about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread.
  
  
• Spaghetti was the number one pasta sold in the United States in 1998 with elbow macaroni coming in second.
  
  
• Ninety-three percent of Americans eat AT LEAST one pizza per month. (Source: Bolla Wines.)
  
  
• Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the United States each year.
  
  
• The graham cracker was named for its inventor, Sylvester Graham, a 19th-century American clergyman and nutrition advocate.
  
  
• Crackers main ingredient is unbleached flour from soft red or soft white wheat.

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Grains of Truth about Wheat

More Information:

- What is Wheat?
- Wheat Flours
- List of wheat foods
- Wheat Kernels
- White Wheat