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Wheat vs. Spelt — What's the Difference?

Wheat vs. Spelt — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Wheat and Spelt

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum).

Spelt

Spelt (Triticum spelta), also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat, is a species of wheat that has been cultivated since approximately 5,000 BC. Spelt was an important staple food in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times. Now it survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain, and it has found a new market as a health food.

Wheat

A cereal which is the most important kind grown in temperate countries, the grain of which is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastry, etc.

Spelt

An old kind of wheat with bearded ears and spikelets that each contain two narrow grains, not widely grown but favoured as a health food.

Wheat

Any of various annual cereal grasses of the genus Triticum of the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia, especially T. aestivum, widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important edible grain.
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Spelt

A type of wheat (Triticum spelta syn. T. aestivum subsp. spelta) having a tough hull. It was widely cultivated in southwest Asia, the Near East, and Europe during the Bronze Age and is now grown chiefly in Europe.

Wheat

The grain of any of these grasses, ground to produce flour used in breads, pasta, and other foods.

Spelt

A past tense and a past participle of spell1.

Wheat

(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

Spelt

Simple past tense and past participle of spell

Wheat

(uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Spelt

(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.

Wheat

Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Spelt

A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
Hulled wheat

Wheat

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

Spelt

A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.

Wheat

Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

Spelt

(metalworking) Spelter.

Wheat

Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

Spelt

A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; - called also German wheat.

Spelt

Spelter.

Spelt

To split; to break; to spalt.

Spelt

Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

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