💡 Bread Grains — Fun Facts

Rice has been grown by farmers for more than 9,000 years.

Rice is one of the oldest foods people have farmed. That is a very, very long time ago!

The longest loaf of bread ever made was over 1 kilometre long!

That is longer than 10 football fields in a row. Many bakers worked together to make it.

Flour for bread is made by grinding up grains like wheat.

Farmers grow wheat, and the seeds are crushed into a fine powder. That powder is flour.

Oats can be cooked into a warm, creamy breakfast called porridge.

Oats are a soft grain. When you cook them with milk or water, they turn thick and cosy.

A corn cob almost always has an even number of rows of kernels.

Try counting the rows on a cob of corn. Most cobs have 16 rows of little kernels.

Rice is the main food for more than half the people on Earth.

Billions of people eat rice every day. In Vietnam, rice is part of almost every meal.

Bread is one of the oldest foods that people have made.

People have baked bread for thousands of years. It is made from flour, water, and a little heat.