The 7 Wheat Berries Available on This Bulk Order and How to Use Them!!! (Recipes Below)
There are many types of wheat berries available on this bulk order to purchase and choose from. We have all the important information about how to choose and how to use these wheat berries below, including fresh-milled recipes to try at home!❤️
About Wheat Berries and Fresh Milling Them:
There are really 3 types of wheat berries available on the market: ancient, heirloom/heritage and hybridized. They all have their own benefits and attributes that set them apart. They are available in both organic or standard, but we always recommend organic certified and/or naturally grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides or chemicals and that’s all we ever offer here at Yah’s Manna! So what is the difference between ancient, heirloom/heritage and hybridized wheat berries and what benefits and attributes do each have to offer?
Ancient Wheat Berries:
Ancient wheat berries are those that have always been in existence as long as we can remember or since the beginning of time (as in the Bible Days). Black Einkorn, Einkorn, Spelt, Khorasan, Rye, Emmer and Durum are all ancient, existing in the same form as they did thousands of years ago! They are typically lower in chromosomes thus making their gluten structure naturally weaker. They still contain gluten, but the gluten they contain is much more tolerable to our stomachs. Even when we have gluten intolerances, we can more easily digest and handle ancient grains. (We warn that celiacs or anyone severely allergic to gluten should avoid wheat of any kind be it hybridized, heirloom or ancient.) However, if you have a slight intolerance or stomach upset when you consume gluten, we highly suggest switching to fresh milled flour made from ancient wheat berries! Many people have made the switch and have found that they could easily digest the ancient wheat berries completely with no issues or symptoms. This is again because these are the wheat berries that Yah made. He knew what He was doing! Ancient wheat berries have the highest amount of vitamins and minerals out of any of the wheat berries. They usually contain the highest protein and they each have active compounds that are beneficial to your health in one way or another. All the ancient wheat berries have their own delicious flavor. They are all unique and all wonderful to have in your wheat berry collection! See below for the specific health benefits and baking attributes of each ancient wheat berry we have to offer on this bulk order that’s happening now!
Heirloom/Heritage Wheat Berries:
Heirloom aka heritage wheat berries such as Turkey Red , Turkey Fife and Rouge De Bordeaux for instance, date back hundreds of years ago. These are wheat berries that are considered heirloom or heritage not hybridized. There are dozens of heirloom varieties on the market to choose from. Sometime hundreds of years ago a process of natural cross pollination occurred and created these special varieties usually specific to one area of the world. Rouge De Bordeaux, for instance, originated in France in the 1600s. The most popular heirloom varieties are high in protein, have excellent baking qualities for both sourdough and yeasts breads and amazing flavor! We hope to be able to offer some of these heirloom varieties or others soon! (Note: All ancient wheat berries are considered heirloom/heritage, but not all heirloom/heritage wheat berries are ancient).
Hybridized Wheat Berries:
The three most popular wheat berries on the market are the following hybridized wheat berries: hard red, hard white and soft white! Why? First this is because they look and taste more like the white and wheat breads or pastries we are used to at our favorite stores and restaurants! And it is also because they rise better and/or they develop better gluten structure for making bread, or provide a soft flour to make pastries with (as is the case for soft white). Hard or Soft, Red or White Wheat Berries with no name or designation are typically hybridized wheat berries. On this bulk order we are offering hard white, hard red and soft white hybridized wheat berries.
To clarify, hybridized is NOT genetically modified but typically means cross-pollinated to make wheat berries perform better under certain weather conditions, have more protein or certain health benefits, and have better baking qualities. Most of our fruits and vegetables in the grocery store are hybridized/cross pollinated for similar reasons. Cross pollination is very common and it usually happens naturally when planting two strains of the same plant too close together, but farmers do this on purpose to create a better, stronger wheat berry that will withstand their weather conditions in that area or have a better taste, or better baking qualities. To be very clear, genetically modified wheat is banned in the United States unlike genetically modified corn. Meaning farmers are not allowed to grow any genetically modified wheat berries in the United States at this time nor sell it. This means that ALL wheat berries sold in the US are Non-GMO! Praise Yah!
Even though hard red, hard white and soft white may look and taste similar, they are nutritionally healthier for you to fresh mill into flour than to use the store bought flour that has been over processed, and depleted of its nutrients. When fresh milling you get the added fiber, vitamins and minerals in the bran, germ and endosperm of the wheat berry that are typically removed from store bought flour!
Hard wheats are for making breads: yeast or sourdough, dinner rolls, etc. Soft wheats are for making cookies, pastries, gravies, etc. Whether hard winter or hard spring, all hard wheats are still just as high in protein and show little difference in gluten development. Many bakers use their hard wheats and mix them 50/50 with their ancient or heirloom wheats when baking to allow for a better rise along with the added nutrient benefits of using ancient berries! They also mix their hard wheat with their soft wheat to make a softer crumb when baking yeast bread or sourdough! There are endless combinations, and as you find more fresh-milled flour recipes, you will wish you had a little of all of these berries to play with!
More About the Specific Wheat Berries We Are Offering this Bulk Order:
Hard White Wheat Berries:
Hard wheats like hard white are naturally higher in protein and thus develop gluten better than most wheat varieties. Hard white wheat berries (be it a spring or winter wheat) are the staple wheat berry in most fresh-milled family’s homes. Meaning it’s the most popular wheat berry on the market! And that is due to the fact that it has more of a mild, sweeter, lighter flavor than hard red or ancient/heirloom wheat berries and hard white is lighter in color making it resemble and taste more like the type of bread we are used to consuming from store bought breads to restaurant style breads! But again, because you are fresh-milling it, it is healthier than using store bought flour because it contains all the Yah-given nutrients that are in the whole wheat berry! Central Milling’s Hard White is a hybridized wheat berry that’s grown in the spring, making it a spring wheat. Hard white is an excellent wheat berry that can convince any family to go 100% fresh milled and offer an easy transition. We recommend it for sourdough, dinner rolls and dutch oven yeast bread!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Hard White:
Delicious Sandwich Bread Recipe (Easy): (This recipe calls for both Hard White and Khorasan)
Hard White Artisan Yeast Bread (Easy):
Easy Soft Fresh-Milled Dinner Rolls made with Hard White Flour (Easy):
Sourdough Bread Made with 100% Fresh Milled Hard White:
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Hard Red Spring Wheat Berries:
Hard Red, be it spring or winter wheat, is also naturally higher in protein and thus develops gluten better than most wheat varieties. Hard red wheat berries are the next most popular wheat berries on the market! And a staple wheat berry in most fresh-milled family’s homes. Hard Red is often the staple "workhorse" of bread baking! It offers a robust, earthy, nutty flavor and is a favorite for sourdough, artisan hearth loaves, and pizza dough. It makes a darker loaf and a crisp, delicious crust! It can be mixed in different ratios to hard white or to ancient grains to offer more flavor, color or a better rise! We recommend it for artisan, rustic sourdough bread or for a nutritious whole wheat pizza dough!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Hard Red:
Simple Yeast Bread Loaf:
Tried and True Pizza Dough Recipe for Hard Red or any Wheat Berry (Other than Einkorn):
Sourdough Made with 100% Freshly Milled Hard Red and Kamut (aka Khorasan):
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Soft White Wheat Berries:
Soft white wheat berries are the third best selling wheat berry on the market! They offer a different type of softer flour that can be used to make things like cookies, muffins, scones, pie crusts, tortillas or flat breads, biscuits and all sorts of delicious pastries! Soft white wheat berries are naturally sweeter, low in protein and low in gluten. Their bran layer is more delicate and milder than red wheat and they lack any strong aftertaste. They also mix well with hard wheats to help soften the loaves and create a better crumble! Soft white is a must have staple in your home!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Soft White:
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe with 100% Freshly Milled Soft White Flour
Fluffy Pancakes Made with 100% Freshly Milled Soft White Wheat
Freshly Milled Flour Recipes for Beginners (he There is a great soft white cake recipe on here):
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Spelt Wheat Berries:
Spelt Wheat Berries are one of the most popular ancient wheat berries along with einkorn and khorasan. Spelt dates back to Old Testament times and often is debated to be the most ancient wheat berry even more than einkorn, but no one knows for sure! Spelt wheat berries have an amazing flavor unlike any other wheat variety. Unlike Einkorn, Spelt rises better! It is sweeter, nutty and tastes slightly buttery! Spelt is higher in protein than most hybridized wheat berries. It tastes as rich as it is in nutrients.
Spelt has a deep root system that absorbs nutrients easily, it has higher concentrations of zinc, iron, magnesium and phosphorus than modern wheat varieties. It supports the brain and the nervous system because it is exceptionally high in vitamin B3 (Niacin), which plays a crucial role in metabolism, cardiovascular health as well as supports healthy nervous system connections. And in that regards it offers different minerals and vitamins than Khorasan and Einkorn (each ancient grain offers different nutritional value to our plate)!
In hybridized wheat, fiber is heavily sourced in the outer bran layer. In spelt, the benefits of soluble and insoluble fiber is spread more evenly through the entire kernel (endosperm). Because of the natural fiber, spelt helps us maintain steady blood sugar levels and supports an active healthy gut with little or no abdominal bloating. Lastly, the complex carbohydrates coupled with the high fiber in spelt break down slowly which provides a slow release of glucose into the bloodstream, minimizing insulin spikes compared to hybridized wheat and especially store bought processed flour!
Spelt makes an amazing all-purpose flour you can either make bread or baked goods with! Spelt is one of our best selling grains! You can make yeast bread, cookies, sourdough bread, and the best crepes and pancakes you’ve ever had with this spelt! See our “Spelt Crepes” recipe below! Also see our “Avocado Taco” recipe below that we learned from ATX Foods in Austin, TX! Spelt tortillas are so good for you but they taste amazing!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Spelt Wheat Berries:
Fresh-Milled Spelt Avocado Tacos:
Easy and Delicious Spelt Crepes:
Crusty Fresh Miller Spelt No Knead Bread
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Khorasan Wheat Berries:
Khorasan is an ancient wheat and relative to durum wheat! It’s a larger wheatberry in size and over two to three times the size of a normal wheat berry! It has a somewhat sweet, nutty and rich buttery flavor! Like Einkorn, Khorasan is easier to digest. When eaten regularly, Khorasan is thought to have many advantages for your health! It contains 20% to 40% more protein than hybridized wheat and has higher levels of lipids, selenium, zinc, and magnesium!
This ancient grain will give your dough a warm yellow color similar to durum, but with a rich flavor. Khorasan flour also develops gluten better than durum even though their protein is typically similar. And Khorasan rises well unlike Einkorn.
Khorasan is widely used to make bread, sourdough and pasta! There is a great recipe below about how to use Khorasan with other wheat berries to make an all-purpose flour! And there are many fresh-milled Khorasan recipes online!
Just fyi, all Kamut is Khorasan but not all Khorasan is Kamut. Kamut is a name brand Khorasan seed that has been trademarked. This is not Kamut, it is Khorasan. This an ancient/heirloom Khorasan, which makes this even better in our opinion!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Khorasan Wheat Berries:
All Purpose Flour Recipe (Using Khorasan, Hard White & Soft White Wheat Berries):
Best Kamut/Khorasan Rolls Ever:
Fresh Milled Khorasan Pasta Recipe:
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Rye Wheat Berries:
Rye (an ancient wheat) is a necessary, staple in every home, especially right now given the current state of world affairs. Why? Having Rye in your store house is like having all the yeast you will ever need! Rye makes an excellent starter flour for making sourdough starter! People use rye starter because it ferments faster than any other wheat berry and makes an easy starter that gives your sourdough breads a better rise and flavor! You can use the rye starter with fresh milled Einkorn, Khorasan, Spelt, Hard White or Hard Red to make excellent sourdough bread! It makes a mild starter compared to what you might think, and it does not affect the flavor of the breads we use to make with it. If anything, it enhances the flavor for the better! We love our Rye starter!!! We have included the recipe and the instructions we recommend to follow to make the best and the easiest starter, using Rye! So don’t worry about stocking up on yeast, instead stock up on Rye and you will always have what you need for an excellent rise in all your breads and more!
Rye is an ancient wheat that has a delicious, stronger European flavor when baking alone with it! It can be used alone to make rye loaves or mixed in with other wheat berries to add color and a unique flavor to your loaves! A common Irish breakfast is warm rye toast with melted butter! So delish! See our recipe below for our Fresh-Milled Rye Bread recipe!
Rye boasts a dense micronutrient profile, providing more magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, and B vitamins (such as B2 and B6) than refined grains, along with plant-based antioxidants like phenolic acids and lignans.
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Rye Wheat Berries:
How to make an easy to use Starter for Sourdough Bread Baking with Fresh-Milled Rye Wheat:
Yah’s Manna Dutch Oven Jewish Rye Bread Recipe
Surprisingly Good Fresh Milled Rye Brownies
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Bleinkorn Wheat Berries:
What is Bleinkorn (Black Einkorn)? It is an ancient einkorn wheat variety that is high in anthocyanins unlike regular einkorn! No one knows for sure, but it is expected that Black Einkorn is the original wheat and dates back even farther than regular Einkorn. The only difference between regular Einkorn and Bleinkorn is that Bleinkorn has added anti-inflammatory properties due to the anthocyanins present and Bleinkorn is higher in protein and has all the benefits of regular einkorn. This makes Bleinkorn one of the most nutritious wheat berries on the market! But the taste of it is what is so special! Bleinkorn makes the best cookies and most delicious, moist bread! Bleinkorn has a deep, nutty, toasty, buttery flavor with a subtle natural sweetness! The Bleinkorn wheat berry itself has slight purple strains in it, but when growing in the field its dark hulls and awns make majestic purple waves of grain!
More about Einkorn (Be it Black or Regular):
Einkorn is the wheat berry that Yah made! Meaning it is the original first wheat berry ever created as most people believe, and it has not been hybridized by man! It’s an ancient grain that does things for our body that regular wheat can not do!
Einkorn, like other natural plants, is a diploid, which means it has two sets of chromosomes, while hybridized wheat has six sets! What does this mean? Einkorn only has 14 chromosomes. Modern wheat has 42 chromosomes! This means that its gluten is different from the gluten found in modern wheat varieties like hard red, soft white and hard white wheat berries! In fact, Einkorn does not contain the D genome instead contains the A genome! The most widely used test for detecting gluten tests for the presence of the D genome.
Studies has found that not only Einkorn, but also Spelt is high in carotenoids, something modern wheat is not high in. What’s the big deal about carotenoids? Well carotenoids are believed to reduce the risk of diseases such as cancer and especially macular degeneration! Meaning, carotenoids are good for our aging eyes! Sprouting einkorn under natural light increases the carotenoid availability in the einkorn making it a powerhouse superfood! And einkorn supports healthy eye health for other reasons as well! Research shows that lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-carotene, which are prevalent in einkorn, may protect the eye’s because they can absorb harmful light that enters our eyes!
A study on animals using ancient grains like einkorn and spelt, showed that ancient wheat diets reduced cellular processes tied to glucose and fat metabolism, potentially helping to prevent or delay diabetes. Similar outcomes have been seen in other animal research!
Fresh-milled einkorn flour is naturally high in phenolic acids, which are plant compounds found in fruits and vegetables that help protect the body from oxidative damage and diseases like heart disease, stroke, and some cancers. A study published in the Journal of Food Science and Technology looked at how these beneficial compounds and antioxidant levels changed when einkorn was processed into flour, water biscuits, and puffed kernels. The researchers found that even after einkorn transformed into a biscuit or a puff it maintained its high levels of phenolic acids!
Einkorn is one of the most delicious wheats I have ever tried. It’s my absolute favorite for making cookies and dutch oven bread! Men tend to love the taste of Einkorn bread over other breads! My husband loves it and over the years of selling einkorn, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard my customer say “My husband loves einkorn bread!” I believe that our bodies naturally crave what is good for us. I believe there is something in Modern wheat that is good for man. Just like the Bible says: bread is good for your heart! That’s because the wheat that Yah made (Einkorn) is good for your heart!
How do you bake with einkorn? Einkorn has a stickier consistency than modern wheat that you just have to accept! Don’t overcompensate by adding too much flour to your recipes. It proofs much faster, so be careful not to over proof. These tips will help you easily incorporate einkorn into your favorite recipes, so you and your family can start enjoying the flavor and the many health benefits of einkorn!
Check Out These Recipes Below Made with Bleinkorn/Einkorn Wheat Berries:
Tips and Recipes on How to Make 100% Einkorn Sourdough
Challah Bread Recipe for 100% Fresh Milled Einkorn Flour
Super Moist Chocolate Chip Einkorn Cupcakes
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