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Fusarium head blight
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Color
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Durum Wheat Varieties
   Divide 2005
   Grenora 2005
   Alkabo 2005
   Dilse 2002
   Pierce 2001
   Lebsock 1999
   Plaza 1999
   Maier 1998
   Mountrail 1998
   Belzer 1997
   Ben 1996
   Munich 1995
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Durum Wheat Products
   Pasta Products
   Couscous
   Bulgur
   Frekeh or Firik
   Breakfast cereal
   Durum Wheat Bread
   Desserts

Semolina, durum granular, and durum flour milled from durum wheat are used to manufacture paste and non-paste food products. Paste products are manufactured by mixing water with semolina or durum flour to form unleavened dough, which is formed into different shapes and either cooked and eaten or dried for later consumption. Pasta and couscous are paste products.   Products of durum wheat in a high moisture leavened or unleavened bread and cooked or steamed bulgur (cracked durum wheat) and frekeh (parched immature wheat kernel) are non-paste food products.

Durum Wheat Quality and Pasta Processing Laboratory