
Peanuts
Peanuts are the edible seeds of Arachis hypogaea, a cultivated legume. They are eaten whole, roasted and ground, and peanut oil-press cake is a separate byproduct used in some fermentations.
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Peanuts are the edible seeds of Arachis hypogaea, a cultivated legume. They are eaten whole, roasted and ground, and peanut oil-press cake is a separate byproduct used in some fermentations.

Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), a starchy tree nut eaten roasted, as flour and in confectionery, and kept apart from the toxic fruit of horse chestnut.

Hazelnuts from Corylus avellana, the common hazel, eaten raw, roasted or ground, with the Piedmont protected product and the limits of regional growing and storage advice.

Canned chickpeas are commercially cooked seeds of Cicer arietinum packed in liquid. The beans and their starchy cooking liquid can both be used; salt and texture vary by brand.

Fresh cocoa beans with pulp are cacao seeds newly removed from the pod while the sweet-acid white mucilage still clings to them. The seed-and-pulp mass is the starting material for post-harvest cocoa fermentation.

Fonio covers two distinct West African cereals: white fonio (Digitaria exilis) and black fonio (D. iburua). Both are eaten in cooked dishes; sources also document fermented drinks and controlled fonio fermentations.

Melon seeds, called egusi in Nigeria and much of West Africa, are the seeds of several cucurbit species. They are ground into soup and cooked and fermented into the condiment ogiri-egusi.

Cowpeas are the seeds of Vigna unguiculata, eaten green and freshly shelled or fully mature and dry. Across Africa they serve as food, fodder and a crop partner, while research also examines them in fermented pastes and cereal doughs.

Sago is the starch extracted from the pith of several palms, mainly Metroxylon sagu, and it is dried into flour or pearls that are a staple in Southeast Asia and New Guinea.

The seeds of the African breadfruit, Treculia africana, are cooked, dried and milled into flour in West and Central Africa, and the fruit is heaped and fermented before the seeds are washed out.

Tahitian chestnut is the starchy seed of Inocarpus fagifer, a food tree of tropical Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Despite its name, it is not a true chestnut, and the seed is cooked before eating.
Remilled durum wheat flour (Italian semola rimacinata di grano duro) is durum semolina milled again to a finer particle size. It is used in regional and home breads, but handles differently from coarse semolina.

Atta is wheat flour used across South Asian bread traditions. Indian standards distinguish wheat flour (atta) from resultant atta; milling route and particle size shape its behavior in chapati dough.

Rye flour is milled rye grain, sold as sifted, dark or wholemeal forms. Its starch and water-binding arabinoxylans shape rye breads, while its proteins do not form wheat's gas-trapping network.

Barley groats are barley kernels with their inedible outer hull removed, sold whole or further cut and polished. In Småland’s coarse isterband sausage, cooked korngryn may extend pork and/or beef, alongside or instead of potato.

Barley flour is ground barley grain; whether it comes from pearled or hulless kernels, its milling and limited wheat-like gluten-forming ability shape the doughs and foods it can make.
Oat flour is milled oats, from fine whole-groat powder to flour with some bran removed; its low gluten-forming capacity changes how it behaves in dough.

Chickpea flour is milled Cicer arietinum, used as besan in many Indian dishes and as the base of breads such as socca and farinata.

Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum) are dry pulses eaten whole or milled into flour, which gives socca, farinata and other breads a dense, nutty batter or dough.

Parkia biglobosa seeds are fermented into regional West African seasonings, including nététou, iru, dawadawa and soumbala. The yellow fruit pulp is a separate food, and names and methods vary by place.

Sorghum is the grain of Sorghum bicolor, a variable African-origin cereal used whole, milled, malted and cooked in distinct fermented foods and drinks.

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is a small-grained cereal grown across parts of Africa and Asia. It is milled, cooked, malted and fermented in distinct food traditions.

Millet names several small-seeded cereals. In African fermented foods, pearl millet and finger millet become sour gruels, doughs and drinks through distinct combinations of soaking, milling, cooking, malting and fermentation.

The grain of Secale cereale is milled whole or refined for breads whose crumb, flavour and fermentation differ from wheat loaves.

Bread flour and all-purpose flour give yeast dough its gluten network; pan de cristal and pain de mie use them in different ways.

The shredded white kernel of a mature coconut, used fresh or thawed from frozen in sambols and chutneys; its lauric-acid fat is rich and the moist meat is perishable.

Dahyangheukmi (다향흑미) is a registered Korean black-rice cultivar with an aromatic, non-glutinous grain. It has been used to make rice-flour nuruk, yakju and gochujang in published studies.

Cooked rice is rice grain heated in water until its starch gelatinizes; in Thai sour sausage it feeds the bacteria that acidify the meat.

Madagascar food studies identify tavolo as Tacca leontopetaloides and describe tuber use in distinct regional settings; broader crop guidance comes from a tropical handbook.

King Arthur Rye Flour Blend combines rye flours with wheat flour for rye character in a dough with some wheat gluten structure. Its component proportions are undisclosed.

Root Shoot Pilsner malt is a pale barley base malt named in Monk’s Ration. Root Shoot currently lists several pale Pilsner products; the recipe does not identify which one or a lot specification.


Teff is a tiny-seeded cereal long cultivated in Ethiopia and used whole or milled. Its flour anchors injera and other foods, while variety, milling and local practice shape how it is used.

A pale specialty-malt name used for different commercial products. Briess Carapils and Weyermann CARAPILS have distinct specifications; an unbranded recipe does not identify either one.

Briess wheat extract is prepared wheat-and-barley malt wort sold in concentrated form for brewing. The linked Weizen recipe uses two cans, 6.6 lb total, without naming a specific Briess wheat-extract variant.

A pale, enzyme-free barley malt made by Briess for use alongside other brewing malts, with intended contributions to beer body and foam.

Briess Aromatic Munich Malt 20L is a deeply kilned two-row barley malt used in small measure to lend malt aroma and colour. Monk’s Ration lists three ounces alongside four pounds of pale base malt.

A lightly kilned brewing base made from two-row barley. It supplies starch and enzymes for the mash, with the maltster’s product and lot analysis defining its brewing properties.


Soybeans are the mature dry seeds of Glycine max, about 40 percent protein and 20 percent oil, the substrate of tempeh, natto, miso, soy sauce and many other fermented foods.

Toasted almonds are whole sweet almond kernels dry-roasted until golden to brown. Heat replaces their marzipan note with a roasted, nutty one; they thicken and flavour romesco.

Chocolate malt is barley that has been malted and then roasted to a dark brown, used in porters, stouts and brown ales for colour and a bitter-cocoa, roasted-coffee flavour. It contains no cocoa.

Sesame seed, from Sesamum indicum, is about half oil and is eaten whole, ground into paste or pressed into oil. It was a crop of South Asia by the Harappan period and reached Mesopotamia before 2000 BC.

Yellow split peas are dried field peas with the seed coat removed and the two halves separated. They cook to a soft, starchy, protein-rich paste for soups, puddings, sweets and one modern peaso garum.

Wheat flour is milled wheat grain, from whole meal to fine white flour, used to make bread, thicken liquids and appear as an optional ingredient in fruit pastes such as Georgian mulberry tklapi.

Barley is a hardy cereal, domesticated in the Middle East over 10,000 years ago, eaten whole, pearled or milled, malted for brewing, and grown with koji mold for barley miso.

Lentils are the flat, lens-shaped seeds of Lens culinaris, a legume first cultivated in Southwest Asia 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. They are cooked whole, dehulled, split or milled into flour.

Thai indica rice is the starch-bearing grain Sakimoto steams for Yonaguni awamori koji. The producer names its origin and rice group, but no cultivar, lot or grain grade.

Blanched almonds are sweet almond kernels with the brown seed coat removed. A documented amla murabba cooks ten optional slivered kernels into the finishing syrup with spices and saffron.

Black gram, or urad, is a South Asian pulse whose whole dark seeds and dehulled white dal make distinct cooked and fermented foods.

Whole-wheat flour contains the bran, germ and endosperm of wheat in their original proportions. Its fuller grain flavour and dough behaviour depend on the wheat and milling.

Bread flour is wheat flour chosen for dough strength and gas retention. Its protein level and baking performance vary by wheat, mill and product.