Perhaps the best part of wheat is its end use – fabulous grain products, from bagels to pasta to the standard for thousands of years, bread.

Want to know more about what you can do with flour and grain-based products? Check out these excellent wheat-industry resources.

National Group Recipe Resources

The Wheat Foods Council maintains a robust, categorized recipe page and offers online sales of their 35th anniversary cookbook. They also offer a home bakers’ guide to types of flour.

The Grain Foods Foundation offers recipes from celebrity chefs and others.

The Home Baking Association website includes recipes, baking tips and more for both home bakers and educators.

State Group Recipe Resources

Kansas Wheat offers many recipes and a downloadable version of the Kansas Wheat Commission’s 2008 recipe book.

The Oklahoma Wheat Commission’s recipe page includes a downloadable recipe book, a home-sized recipe for their famous cinnamon rolls and instructions for making Mark’s Whole-Grain Wheat Bread.

The North Dakota Wheat Commission also offers an online version of their recipe book.

Nutrition

For information about wheat and grain nutritional issues, please visit the nutrition Web pages of the Wheat Foods Council or the Grain Foods Foundation. A briefer about gluten intolerance from the Wheat Foods Council is downloadable here.