name: Spelt

flavor_db_name_variants: spelt

source: foodb

status: draft

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name_scientific: Triticum spelta

description: Spelt, also known as dinkel wheat, or hulled wheat, is a species of wheat cultivated since 5000 BCE. Spelt was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times; it now survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain and has found a new market as a health food. Spelt is sometimes considered a subspecies of the closely related species common wheat (T. aestivum), in which case its botanical name is considered to be Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta. It is a hexaploid wheat, which means it has six sets of chromosomes.

itis_id: 42243

wikipedia_id: Spelt

picture_file_name: 489.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 30542

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:40:12.000Z

legacy_id: 516

food_group: Cereals and cereal products

food_subgroup: Cereals

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:44.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 58933

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public_id: FOOD00479