Triticum araraticum Triticum araraticum Triticum araraticum (Araratian wild emmer or Armenian wild emmer) is a wild tetraploid species of wheat. "T. araraticum" is one of the least studied wheat species in the world. The "T. araraticum" species appears to have arisen from the natural hybridization of T. boeoticum and Aegilops speltoides. "T. araraticum" is similar to the domestic T. timopheevii in several ways including physical appearance, cytoplasm type and DNA content. The relationship has led some taxonomists to classify "T. araraticum" as a subspecies of "T. timopheevii". In July 1988 different lines of "T. araraticum" were studied using the C-banding method revealing
Erewhon Organic Cereal Erewhon Organic Cereal Erewhon Organic Cereal (pronounced AIR-wahn) is a food brand specializing in pure ingredients and simply processed, organic whole foods that support digestive health. It was one of the first companies to introduce and market macrobiotic, organic whole foods in the United States. Its name is derived from the 1872 novel of the same name by Samuel Butler. In the satirical novel, "Erewhon" (an anagram of “nowhere”) is a utopia in which individuals are responsible for their own health. Since the early 1950s, Aveline Kushi and Michio Kushi had been introducing modern macrobiotics into the United States from