Eat Pooideae (A Problem For Hungry Humans)

Pooideae is a subfamily within the biological family of grasses, Poaceae. Grasses within the Pooideae subfamily include wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice, as well as the rye grass and Kentucky bluegrass in your back yard and wild grasses in fields near your home. Pooideae grasses can be promiscuous. Some of the grasses in this subfamily are able to cross-fertilize and mate with each other. This is how, for instance, einkorn wheat from 10,000 years ago evolved to create emmer wheat, the 28-chromosome of the Bible. Emmer is the product of the natural mating of 14-chromosome einkorn with a 14-chromosome wild grass, Aegilops speltoides, typically regarded as animal fodder for ruminants or as a weed. Wheat is a grass and it shares genes with other grasses. Eating the seeds of grasses means consuming products from many grasses. Aegilops speltoides in Greece. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Attribution: Sten I pick on wheat most of all for a variety of reasons: Wheat is more promiscuous than other grasses. Because of this capacity to multiply its genetic content of chromosomes (“polyploidy”), the genetics of wheat is more complex than most other grasses. It means that there is greater variability from strain to strain, from year to year, within wheat. Because of this variability, it also has a wider range of effects in humans who consume it. It enjoys such an exalted position in conventional nutritional advice. When we are advised to consume more “healthy whole grai...
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