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  • From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Plant Breeding Derailed
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:06:28 -0500

On 12/18/2012 5:17 PM, Scott Pittman wrote:
Combine this interview with the book "Wheat Belly" which documents the
change of the protein in wheat under Borlag's Green Revolution and
hybridization of wheat with the concurrent outbreak of celiac desease around
the world and you get the full picture! This wheat hybridization did more
than get rid of the tall stalk and increased production it changed the
genetic material in the process.

There are many alternative grains, nuts, beans and seeds used worldwide:
barley
rice
quinoa
amaranth
hemp
corn
sorghum
buckwheat
oats - groats, rolled, bran, whole
rye
millet
kamut
spelt
sesame
sunflower
pumpkin
peanut
pine nut

Dozens of seeds edible when sprouted, a few true gourmet sprouts:
sunflower
buckwheat
alfalfa
brocolli
radish
mung bean

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An interesting list from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_seeds

Cereals
See also: Category:Cereals
Maize is the single largest source of food calories in the world.

True cereals are the seeds of certain species of grass. Three — maize, wheat and rice — account for about half of the calories consumed by people every year.[1] Grains can be ground to make flour, used as the basis of bread, cake, noodles or other food products. They can also be boiled or steamed, either whole or ground, and eaten as is. Many cereals are present or past staple foods, provided a large fraction of the calories in the places that they are eaten. Cereals include:

Barley
Fonio
Maize (corn)
Pearl Millet
Oats
Palmer's grass
Rice
Rye
Sorghum
Spelt
Teff
Triticale
Wheat
Wild rice

Pseudocereals
Quinoa is not a grass, but its seeds have been eaten for 6000 years.

Breadnut
Buckwheat
Cattail
Chia
Flax
Grain amaranth
Kañiwa
Pitseed Goosefoot
Quinoa
Wattleseed (also called acacia seed)

Nuts

See also: List of edible nuts
Brazil nuts come from a South American tree

According to the botanical definition, nuts are a particular kind of seed.[4] Chestnuts, hazelnuts, and acorns are examples of nuts, under this definition. In culinary terms, however, the term is used more broadly to include fruits that are not botanically qualified as nuts, but that have a similar appearance and culinary role. Examples of culinary nuts include almonds, coconuts, peanuts and cashews.[5][6]

Almond
Beech
Brazil nut
Candlenut
Cashew
Chestnuts, including:
Chinese Chestnut
Sweet Chestnut
Coconut
Colocynth
Cucurbita ficifolia
Filbert
Gevuina avellana
Hickory, including
Pecan
Shagbark Hickory
Terminalia catappa
Hazelnut
Indian Beech
Kola nut
Macadamia
Malabar chestnut
Pistacia
Mamoncillo
Maya nut
Mongongo
Oak acorns
Ogbono nut
Paradise nut
Pili nut
Walnut
Black Walnut
Water Caltrop

Nut-like gymnosperm seeds
Pine nuts are Gymnosperm seeds that are edible

Cycads
Ginkgo
Gnetum gnemon
Juniper
Monkey-puzzle
Pine nuts, including
Chilgoza Pine
Korean Pine
Stone Pine
Colorado Pinyon
Mexican Pinyon
Single-leaf Pinyon
Podocarps

Other

Cempedak
Egusi
Euryale ferox (Fox nut)
Fluted pumpkin
Hemp seed
Jackfruit
Lotus seed
Malabar gourd
Pumpkin seed
Sunflower seed
Sesame seed

Beans

See also: Category:Edible legumes, Seed cake

Beans, also known as legumes or pulses include:[2]
Lentils have been part of the human diet since the Neolithic period.

Bambara groundnut
Chickpeas
Cowpeas
Black eyed pea
Dry beans, including
Common bean
several species of Vigna, such as the lentil
Fava or broad beans
Hyacinth bean
Lablab
Lentils
Lupins
Moringa oleifera
Peas
Peanuts
Pigeon peas
Sterculia
Velvet beans
Winged beans
Yam beans
Soybeans








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