It is a very valuable and nutritious, semi-ready food product consisting of only water and wheat obtained by cleaning, boiling, drying the wheat, peeling the husk and grinding it in different types of mills, separating the particles of different sizes.
Grain group is an important and economical carbohydrate source rich in minerals, located at the bottom of the nutrition pyramid. Bulgur is also a valuable food in the cereal group. In order to understand bulgur better, it is necessary to know the main raw material wheat very well.
It consists of 3 parts as wheat, core bran and endosperm, and most of the required nutrients are in the core and bran section. Endosperm is only an energy-giving part of wheat with the carbohydrates and less proteins it contains. Core and bran in the structure of wheat; minerals such as zinc, magnesium, chromium, dietary fiber, some phenols, phytates and selenium; It also contains all B vitamins except B12.