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From Wheat Field to Bread

Farmers grow wheat and harvest its grains when they turn golden. The grains are ground into flour, and bakers mix the flour with water and yeast and bake it into bread.

In the picture

  1. Wheat field: the plant is grown and its ripe ears are harvested
  2. Millstones: they crush the grains into powder
  3. Flour: the soft white powder made from milled grain
  4. Bread: flour dough baked in a hot oven

Examples

  • The sandwich bread in your lunchbox started as wheat in a field.
  • Pasta and breakfast cereals are also made from grains like wheat.

Quiz: From Wheat Field to Bread (Age 10)

  1. What is flour made from?

    • Ground grains of wheat
    • Dried, powdered bread
    • Crushed wheat stalks
  2. In which order does bread travel before it reaches your table?

    • Bakery, then mill, then farm
    • Farm, then mill, then bakery
    • Mill, then farm, then bakery
  3. What do bakers mix with flour to make bread dough?

    • Oil and salt
    • Water and yeast
    • Milk and sugar

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Cooking, Age 10