Glossary W

The food glossary +++ Popular Articles: 'Water', 'Wine', 'Wheat'

Deutsch: Weizen
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East and Ethiopian Highlands, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2010, world production of wheat was 651 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (844 million tons) and rice (672 million tons).

Deutsch: Wein
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grape juice. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine.

Windfalls is an to an old/historic term for "Hard pears" .

Whitloof refers to the Flemish name for the variety of chicory from which the famed Belgian endive was developed.

Wool on a Handle refers to a cowboy term for a lamb chop; generally greatly disliked by cattlemen.

Waragi refers to the local popular liquor in Uganda which is actually a gin made from bananas.

  1. Wijn
  2. Wigeon
  3. Wallop
  4. Walnuss

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