Wheat
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
How I Built This
6 statements about Wheat, every show
Suplicy: Food agriculture is broken by over-focusing on corn, soy, and wheat
“We have kind of a broken system in a way where most of the efforts go into growing corn, soy, and wheat. That is not necessarily good for people or the environment.”
Narain: ICAR research shows wheat and rice lost nutritive value over time
“In fact, our latest issue of Down to Earth has a cover story of, from where ICR scientists have done this amazing work looking at wheat and rice. And shown how they have lost all their nutritive values, ok, over the years.”
Karp: Ancient wheat contains magnitudes less gluten than modern wheat
“And the gluten level in fossilized wheat and the gluten level in some of these ancient grains, versions of wheat is, is magnitudes less than the amount of gluten that we're consuming today.”
Karp: European wheat has lower gluten and is less inflammatory than US wheat
“So in Europe, the glyphosate's banned, and the gluten levels are much lower, and the strains of wheat that they typically use
Are typically a lot less inflammatory than the ones that they use over here.”
Global food system relies dangerously on wheat, rice, soy, and corn
“The limited number of crops we rely on our food system is wheat, rice, soy, and corn. And we ignoring crops that are much more, not only resilient, like for you, and we need to integrate them.”