15 Interesting Facts About Grains

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‘Zey mays’, as the Natives called it, means ‘that which sustains life’, so it’s been a huge staple of food production for a long time now. In colonial times, Europeans quickly adopted corn agriculture from Native Americans, as they did with other indigenous plants like beans, tobacco and melons. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars have shown that beer was produced from barley as far back as 7,000 years ago in what is now Iran. For the oldest evidence of ‘actual’ beer, we have to fast-forward about a thousand years, to 4,000 BC, as an old Sumerian tablet from around that time depicts people consuming a drink through reed straws from a communal bowl. Production is likely to outperform national demand over the coming years, diminishing the need for additional import and making China effectively self-sufficient in both food staples.

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