Flour

Flour is a powder that is made from grains. It is the main ingredient of bread, pasta, crackers, many cakes and many other foods that are made using flour. Wheat flour is one of the most important foods in the world. Wheat is one of the first cereals known to have been domesticated. The archaeological record suggests that this first occurred in the region known as the southeastern of Turkey. Recent findings narrow the first domestication of wheat down a small region of southeastern Turkey, has been dated to 9,000 B.C.