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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 21 Mar 2024
Cereals
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Cereals are annual plants, generally of the graminaceous family, yielding grains used for food, feed, seed and industrial purposes such as production of ethanol. Cereal include Buckwheat, Barley Canary seed, Common wheat, Durum wheat, Einkorn wheat, Emmer wheat, Grain maize, Millet, Oats, Perennial sorghum, Quinoa, Rice, Rye, Sorghum, Spelt, Triticale, Cereals seeds, Cereal grains harvested just before maturity, Cereals used for renewable energy production, Rye and winter cereal mixtures (maslin), Spring cereal mixtures (mixed grain, other than maslin).

Eurostat b, Glossary, accessed 04 December 2023

Source category: EC Technical Documents