OATS
Oats are a cereal grain used primarily as food for livestock, with only about 5% of the world crop being consumed by humans. The plants make excellent straw, and the hulls are a source of the chemical furfural, used as an industrial solvent.
Theophrastus and Pliny believed that oats were a diseased form of wheat.
Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the largest cereal company in the world.
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