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Report
No.240607 |
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- Science and Technology - |
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The World's First Sweet Wheat National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region and Nippon Flour Mills Co. Ltd. announced on December 12, 2006 that they jointly developed a new breed of wheat or 'sweet wheat' which is the world's first wheat variety that tastes sweet. Compared to wheat varieties of ordinary strain, the sweet wheat has stronger taste of sweetness, for it contains larger amount of oligosaccharide such as maltose. The Center plans to develop new use of the crop and to put it on practical use with further breed improvement base on the trait it already has. Sugar content of the sweet wheat is 22.2 on Brix scale (as high as sweet corn), which is more than two times of ordinary strain wheat with the average of 9.35. Blending the sweet wheat flour with flours in the market, Nippon Flour Mills Co. Ltd. has successfully test produced toast bread and cookies that carry unique flavor and sweetness. The company wishes to "promote usage development in the form of flour products not using artificial sweetening." The Center plans to file application for breed registration under the Seed and Seedlings Law in the near future. They wish to "develop it as a breed that can be grown in many parts of the country by cross-breeding with the major local varieties." |
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