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Food: Durum Wheat edit
Created by: Anonymous
Edited by: Sheri, Desiree Lowe, Alisa Escanlar, Darren Vengroff
Tags: Wheat
Other Names: Durhum Wheat, Macaroni Wheat
Translations: 硬粒小麦 (Chinese), القمح القاسي (Arabic), Trigo duro (Portuguese), Blé dur (French), Trigo duro (Spanish) All Translations
edit About Durum Wheat
A specially grown hard wheat that is also high in protein and gluten. Often used to make pasta products. It is unknown where this wheat originated, though it is though to have originated in Abyssinia or southern parts of the Mediterranean basin. Records show there was cultivation in Byzantine Egypt.
With the rise of Islam, the crop spread rapidly throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. In some parts of the Mediterranean, durum was the only wheat grown. It was also grown by Muslims during their habitation of medieval Southern Italy, and was amongst the agricultural products that were exported from the Muslim world to the West.
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