Cereal

:This article is about grains. See also breakfast cereal

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Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provides more food energy to the human race than any other crop. In some developing nations, cereal grains constitute practically the entire diet of common folk. In developed nations, cereal consumption is more moderate but still substantial. The word cereal has its origin in the Roman goddess of grain, Ceres. Staple food grains are traditionally called corn in Britain, though that word became specified for maize in the United States. And a merchant of corn was in Britain called a chandler, which in the United States is an obsolete word for someone who sells candles.

Related Topics:
Crop - Grasses - Seed - Fruit - Caryopsis - Food energy - Human - Developing nation - Developed nation - Grain - Ceres - Staple food - Corn - Britain - Maize

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