Farina (food)

Short description: Milled wheat

FarinaType| Cereal

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Course| Breakfast
Serving temperature| Warm
Main ingredients| Wheat

* Cookbook: Farina

Farina is a form of milled wheat popular in the United States. It is often cooked as a hot breakfast cereal, or porridge. The word farina comes from the Latin word for "meal" or "flour".

Farina may also be cooked like polenta and farofa, which are made with ground corn and ground cassava, respectively. Farina with milk and sugar is sometimes used for making creams for layered cakes. Farina can be used as a substitute for bread crumbs in sweet and meat pies (to absorb excess water). It can also be used to prevent dough from sticking to baking surfaces via the baking process, leaving residual farina on the bottom of the final product.

Farina is a carbohydrate-rich food. When enriched with iron, it can be a significant source of dietary iron, especially for vegetarian diets. Popular brands offer up to 50% of the recommended daily value of iron in a single 500-kilojoule (120-kilocalorie) serving. In commercially available farina, the bran and most of the germ are removed. Cream of Wheat, Malt-O-Meal, and Farina Mills are popular brand names of breakfast cereal. To augment its mild taste, popular add-ins to cooked farina include brown or granular sugar, maple syrup, honey, molasses, fruit, nuts, cinnamon, butter, grated chocolate, jams, milk, and salt.

## See also

* Wheatena
* Semolina
* List of porridges

## References

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Wheat

Types|

* Common
* Durum
* Einkorn
* Emmer
* Khorasan
* Marquis
* Norin 10
* Red Fife
* Spelt
* Winter wheat

Agronomy|

* Wheat diseases
* list
* Wheat mildew
* Hessian fly

Trade|

* Australian Wheat Board
* Canadian Wheat Board
* Corn exchange
* Exports
* International Wheat Council
* Peak wheat
* Production statistics
* Protein premium
* Wheat pools in Canada

Plant parts and their uses|

Stalk
Straw
Seed
Bran
Germ
Chaff (husk)
Endosperm

Gluten

Basic preparation|

None
Berries or groats
Milling
Farina
Flour
Middlings
Semolina
Parboiling
Bulgur

As an ingredient|

* Bread
* Couscous
* Cracker
* Flatbread
* Pasta
* Wheat beer
* Wheat germ oil
* Wheat gluten

Associated human diseases|

* Anaphylaxis
* Gluten-related disorders
* coeliac disease
* non-celiac gluten sensitivity
* wheat allergy
* dermatitis herpetiformis
* ataxia

Related concepts|

* Bread riot
* Plant breeding
* Refined grains
* Staple food
* Wheatpaste
* Whole grain
* Shattering
* Tell Abu Hureyra
* Tell Aswad

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