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SPELT

Spelt (Triticum sativum spelta) is a prehistoric cereal formed around 1000 BC from a crossing of Emmer wheat and a goat grass. Spelt was grown by the lake-dwellers of Switzerland and the ancient Romans, and was still being cultivated in central and Southern Europe at the start of the 20th century. Spelt has a brittle ear which easily breaks into short pieces, each of which bears a spikelet, and the grain cannot be properly threshed. Spelt produces a yield not so high as Emmer, but is an ancestor of modern wheat.
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