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Wheat heads: the grain behind bread flour, not a specific mill’s variety.

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A cereal grain whose flour, bran, and germ are central to bread and to much of the world’s staple cooking.

Wheat is the plant; Wheat flour is one of the foods we make from it. Species, class, and Milling streams differ. This page is a hub, not a variety catalog.

U.S. standards for flours milled from wheat live in 21 CFR Part 137 1. What those standards do not decide is how a particular lot will feel in Sourdough dough — that is a baking question, carried on Gluten and fermentation.

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