Milling Wheat into Flour

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• Wheat is milled in a combine harvester

• Grains are sent from the farm to the milling factory

• Stones and dirt is removed by machines and sieves

• Machines called rollers crack open the wheat

• Parts of the wheat are seperated; wheat-germ , bran and endosperm

• Ground endosperm (semolina) is sieved to rid anymore bran

• Fine ground endosperm is white flour

• Bran is added back in to make wholemeal wheat 

• Breakfast cereal is made from the bran/endosperm

• Flour Types (binary/octet-stream)