Small, hard, dry seed used as food; may be ground into flour

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Hordeum vulgare (Barley)

Nepal; agriculture in the Khumbu, 1986. Pangboche (altitude 4200 metres), showing the tiny, walled terraced fields on which Sherpas cultivate their staple crops (potatoes, barley, wheat). Potatoes are rarely grown beyond 4000 metres but barley is grown at higher altitudes. Scattered juniper and birch trees share this terrain with sub-alpine grasses. Few people live permanently beyond this village amid the last scattered trees below the treeline.

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Avena Sativa (Oat)

Hordeum distichon (Barley)

Eledon : babeurre en polvo Nestlé.

Eledon, Lactogeno, Milo, Sinlac, Nestogeno, Pelargon : productos Nestlé, la marca de confianza.

Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Recipes : highly nutritious dishes easy to make / [Grape-Nuts Company, Ltd].

Whole grains for health / by L. Purcell Weaver.

On the cerealia of Western Africa / by W.F. Daniell.

Facts and figures for scholars / Shredded Wheat Co. Ltd.

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Edible Grain

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Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Recipes : highly nutritious dishes easy to make / [Grape-Nuts Company, Ltd].

Whole grains for health / by L. Purcell Weaver.

On the cerealia of Western Africa / by W.F. Daniell.

Facts and figures for scholars / Shredded Wheat Co. Ltd.

Edible Grain

Images from the collections

Images about Edible Grain

Works from the collections

Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Recipes : highly nutritious dishes easy to make / [Grape-Nuts Company, Ltd].

Whole grains for health / by L. Purcell Weaver.

On the cerealia of Western Africa / by W.F. Daniell.

Facts and figures for scholars / Shredded Wheat Co. Ltd.

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