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What are the five grains? Please attach a picture, thank you!

1, rice, an annual aquatic herb of the gramineae family, rice is one of the important food crops of mankind, the history of cultivation and consumption are quite long. Half of the world's population consumes rice, mainly in Asia, southern Europe and tropical America and parts of Africa.

2, corn, millet. It has several varieties of red, white yellow and black. White millet viscosity is second to glutinous rice, red millet viscosity is the strongest, you can cook porridge, can be wrapped in brown to eat, the place of origin is Aohan Banner, Inner Mongolia.

3, Jigen, one of the earliest cultivated grains for mankind, grain rich in starch, for food or wine, culms and leaves can be livestock feed. Due to long-term cultivation and selection, many varieties. Distributed in northwest China, north China, southwest, northeast, south China and east China and other places in the mountains are cultivated, xinjiang occasional wild-like. Asia, Europe, America, Africa and other warm regions are cultivated.

4, wheat, is the grass family, is a cereal crop widely grown around the world, wheat caryopsis is one of the staple food of mankind, ground into flour can be made into bread, steamed buns, cookies, noodles and other food, fermentation can be made into beer, alcohol, liquor (such as vodka), or raw fuel.

5, beans, mainly the seeds or pods of legumes. Legumes proper are soybeans, kidney beans, mung beans, soybeans, fava beans, safflower kidney beans, Indian kidney beans and so on.

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