Each wheat berry has three parts: the bran, endosperm, and the germ. The bran is the skin on the outside of the wheat berry. The endosperm, what makes up most of a wheat berry, is inside the bran.

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Other by-products are used as livestock feed. White wheat is relatively poor in minerals and vitamins because it lacks the most nutritious parts: the bran and germ, which are removed during ...

Wheat germ, the nutrient-dense core of the wheat kernel, often goes unnoticed, yet it packs a powerful punch in terms of nutritional value. Despite being removed during the milling process that ...

So might the bacteria found in hospitals break down and feed on plastic? To find out, we studied the genomes of known hospital pathogens (harmful bacteria) to see if they had the same plastic ...