Kamut ®, Whole Grain Wheat – A Vegan Pantry Ingredient from Vegan Venue
Kamut ®, Whole Grain Wheat is a registered brand of whole wheat that is reported to be a non-hybrid ancient wheat from Egypt. See more about it below.
Kamut, Whole Grain Wheat
More About Kamut Whole Grain Wheat
This brand of wheat is the registered trade name of Kamut International, Ltd. They say that they cultivated a viable grain that was supposedly found in a jar in a pyramid in Egypt and planted it in the United States. This could be the Egyptian wheat mentioned in the Bible (Exodus 9:32). The nutritional values of this whole wheat are compared with conventional wheat (see below).
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TABLE A: NUTRITIONAL VALUES FOR COMMON WHEAT AND KAMUT BRAND WHEAT
| Common Wheat a. | Kamut Brand Wheat b. | |
PROXIMATE: |
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| water | 11.5% | 9.8% |
| food energy/100g (calories) | 335 | 359 |
| protein | 12.3% | 17.3% |
| total lipid (fat) | 1.9% | 2.6% |
| carbohydrate | 72.7% | 68.2% |
| crude fiber | 2.1% | 1.8% |
| ash | 1.66% | 1.82% |
Kamut MINERALS: (mg/100g) |
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| calcium | 30 | 31 |
| iron | 3.9 | 4.2 |
| magnesium | 117 | 153 |
| phosphorus | 396 | 411 |
| potassium | 400 | 446 |
| sodium | 2.0 | 3.8 |
| zinc | 3.2 | 4.3 |
| copper | 0.44 | 0.46 |
| manganese | 3.8 | 3.2 |
Kamut VITAMINS: (mg/100g) |
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| thiamin (B1) | 0.42 | 0.45 |
| riboflavin (B2) | 0.11 | 0.12 |
| niacin | 5.31 | 5.54 |
| pantothenic acid | 0.91 | 0.23 |
| vitamin B6 | 0.35 | 0.08 |
| folacin | 0.0405 | 0.0375 |
| vitamin E | 1.2 | 1.7 |
LIPIDS: (g/100g) |
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| saturated | 0.303 | 0.550 |
| 16:0 (palmitic acid) monounsaturated | 0.225 | 0.400 |
| 18:1 (oleic acid) polyunsaturated | 0.733 | 1.580 |
| 18:2 (linoleic acid) | 0.035 | 0.125 |
| cholesterol 18:3 (linolenic acid) | 0.0 | 0.0 |
AMINO ACIDS: (g/100g) |
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| tryptophan | 0.194 | 0.117 |
| threonine | 0.403 | 0.540 |
| isoleucine | 0.630 | 0.600 |
| leucine | 0.964 | 1.23 |
| lysine | 0.361 | 0.440 |
| methionine | 0.222 | 0.250 |
| cystine | 0.348 | 0.58 |
| phenylalanine | 0.675 | 0.85. |
| tyrosine | 0.404 | 0.430 |
| valine | 0.624 | 0.800 |
| arginine | 0.610 | 0.860 |
| histidine | 0.321 | 0.430 |
| alanine | 0.491 | 0.630 |
| aspartic acid | 0.700 | 0.980 |
| glutamic acid | 4.68 | 5.97 |
| glycine | 0.560 | 0.650 |
| proline | 1.50 | 1.44 |
| serine | 0.662 | 0.930 |
a. Agriculture Handbook No. 8-20, “Cereal Grains and Pasta” 1988, pp 20071-20076.
b. Medallion Laboratories’ Analytical Report No. 88011589 done for Montana Flour & Grains on Kamut brand wheat October 24, 1988.
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