What is the difference between red wheat and white wheat, and what is the current market price per jin?

What is red wheat? What is the difference between it and white wheat? What is the approximate price per jin on the current market? Depending on bran color, wheat can be divided into two types: white-bran wheat and red-bran wheat. White-bran wheat is yellow or milky white, has thin bran, a high endosperm content, and a relatively high flour yield; red-bran wheat is dark red or reddish brown, has thicker bran, a lower endosperm content, and a relatively low flour yield.

In China, wheat is generally classified into 9 categories based on grain quality combined with bran color.

(1) White hard winter wheat: winter wheat in which the grains with white or yellowish-white bran color account for no less than 90%, and the vitreousness rate is no less than 70%.

(2) White hard spring wheat: spring wheat in which the grains with white or yellowish-white bran color account for no less than 90%, and the vitreousness rate is no less than 70%.

(3) White soft winter wheat: winter wheat in which the grains with white or yellowish-white bran color account for no less than 90%, and the mealiness rate is no less than 70%.

(4) White soft spring wheat: spring wheat in which the grains with white or yellowish-white bran color account for no less than 90%, and the mealiness rate is no less than 70%.

(5) Red hard winter wheat: winter wheat in which the grains with dark red or reddish-brown bran color account for no less than 90%, and the vitreousness rate is no less than 70%.

(6) Red hard spring wheat: spring wheat in which the grains with dark red or reddish-brown bran color account for no less than 90%, and the vitreousness rate is no less than 70%.

(7) Red soft winter wheat: winter wheat in which the grains with dark red or reddish-brown bran color account for no less than 90%, and the mealiness rate is no less than 70%.

(8) Red soft spring wheat: spring wheat in which the grains with dark red or reddish-brown bran color account for no less than 90%, and the mealiness rate is no less than 70%.

(9) Mixed wheat.

Therefore, the difference between red wheat and white wheat mainly lies in the color of the outer bran: wheat whose bran is white or yellowish white is white wheat, and wheat in which white wheat grains account for 90% of the kernels is white wheat; wheat whose bran is dark brown or reddish brown is red wheat, and wheat in which such grains account for more than 90% of the total kernels is red wheat; the rest is mixed wheat. See the national standard GB1351--2008 for details.

Besides color, the difference between red wheat and white wheat also lies in price: red wheat is somewhat more expensive than white wheat. At present, domestic red wheat is basically imported, that is, red wheat produced in the United States, and compared with domestic wheat there is a relatively large difference in protein: domestic wheat protein is around 12, while American red wheat is generally around 10, generally on the low side.