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| | Pseudograins |
 | | The cereals and grains are cultivated annual grasses (Family Poaceae), which have medium-sized to relatively small, one-seeded, dry fruits (grain, kernel, or caryopsis); they are ground into flour or meal, cooked into mush or porridge, used for beer, and eaten whole or in soups. |
 | | Pseudocereals or pseudograins, on the other hand, are annual plants belonging to non-grass families but which also have smallish dry fruits that can be used in the same ways as the starchy and proteinaceous cereals. |
 | | On a worldwide scale, no pseudograin has ever been a major crop, but for certain isolated cultures, often in regions that have short growing seasons and poor soils, pseudograins have been essential, highly valued crop plants. |
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