brunch

cet après-midi

looking thru the nutrition table on my cereal box. the front cover wrote:
Original.
Crisp whole wheat flakes, rolled oats, triticale, plump juicy sultanas, chewy apricot pieces & just a hint of honey. (in fine print under Original on the boxcover)

just wat is a triticale? i wondered. my god, i dun even know what im putting into my mouth. For all those out there who are just as ignorant as me.

triticale(n)
a hybrid produced by crossing wheat, Triticum aestivum, and rye, Secale cereale.

The word itself is a fusion of the Latin words triticum ("wheat") and secale ("rye"). When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male. Because the resulting hybrids are sterile, they have to be treated with the alkaloid colchicine to make them fertile.

To put it simply. it's a MAN MADE wheat.

rite. now we all know. and see the description of my cereal? just a hint of honey... so it's hinting to us that there's some sugar added. so that equates to carbo which translates to fat if it's not being burnt in the body. so im happily eating future fats into my body as im blogging. hey a girl has to eat.

*munch munch*