Grains, seeds, cereals, pseudo-cereals, gluten-free or not… If you’re also very curious, you must be testing many flours and grains.
Grains & seeds
What’s the difference between them?
The seed is the embryo of the plant. Once grown it gives a fruit we call grain. Harvesting pumpkin seeds means the pumpkin grew thanks to those seeds, whereas rice (grains) were not there in the first place.
Cereals & pseudo-cereals
Cereals come from grasses that grow and give grains we are consuming. Most common cereals are rice, corn or wheat.
We talk about pseudo-cereals when they’re seeds we consume in the same way. Most popular pseudo-cereals: quinoa, buckwheat and amaranth.
Seeds are whole, so contain many nutrients but are not easy to ingest in big quantity. That’s why pseudo-cereals are so interesting! Quinoa is a seed that can easily replace rice, when chia seeds would not make a whole meal! Cereals and pseudo-cereals are the primary source of carbs for the human population, and pseudo-cereals are also high in protein!