Cereals
For years, our ancestors ate the seeds of wild grasses and chewed the roots of wild plants. Then, about 11,000 years ago, people started to grow the crops they liked best. Ever since, we’ve been growing and developing all sorts of plants to feed ourselves and our animals.
You probably eat grass every day! When we think of grass, we usually think of the grass in lawns and fields. But rice, wheat, oats, rye, millet, barley, sorghum, and maize (also called corn) are grasses, too. These grasses are called cereals. And their fruits, the part we eat, are called grains.
Cereals are the most important group of food plants in the world. Without grains, we wouldn’t have bread, breakfast cereals, cakes, rice, or popcorn. Grasses also provide food for the cows and sheep that give us milk, cheese, and meat.
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