What is red wheat? What's the difference with white wheat? How much is it per jin on the market at present?

What is red wheat? What's the difference with white wheat? How much is it per jin on the market at present? According to the different skin color, wheat can be divided into white wheat and red wheat. Among them, white wheat is yellow or milky white, thin skin, high endosperm content and high flour yield, while red wheat is dark red or reddish brown, thick skin, less endosperm content and low flour yield.

In China, wheat is generally divided into 9 categories according to the color of grain-bound skin.

(1) White hard winter wheat whose seed coat is white or yellow-white is not less than 90% and the cutin rate is not less than 70%.

(2) White hard spring wheat whose seed coat is white or yellow-white is not less than 90% and the cutin rate is not less than 70%.

(3) White soft winter wheat whose seed coat is white or yellow-white is not less than 90% and the powder percentage is not less than 70%.

(4) the seed coat of white soft spring wheat is not less than 90% or yellow-white, and the flour percentage is not less than 70%.

(5) Winter wheat whose seed coat is crimson or reddish brown is not less than 90% and the cutin rate is not less than 70%.

(6) Spring wheat whose seed coat is crimson or reddish brown is not less than 90% and the cutin rate is not less than 70%.

(7) the seed coat of red soft winter wheat is not less than 90% of the wheat grains with dark red or reddish brown seed coat, and the powder percentage is not less than 70%.

(8) the seed coat of red soft spring wheat is not less than 90% of the grain with crimson or reddish brown, and the powder percentage is not less than 70%.

(9) mixed wheat.

Therefore, the main difference between red wheat and white wheat is the skin color, the outer skin is white and yellow-white is white wheat, white wheat accounts for 90% of wheat grains is white wheat, wheat skin is dark brown or reddish brown wheat is red wheat, accounting for more than 90% of the total grains is red wheat; the rest is mixed wheat. See the national standard GB1351--2008 for details.

In addition to color, the difference between red wheat and white wheat lies in the price. The price of red wheat is higher than that of white wheat. At present, the domestic red wheat is basically imported, that is, the American red wheat is relatively different from the domestic wheat in protein. The domestic wheat protein is about 12, while the American red wheat is generally about 10, which is generally on the low side.