Archive for February 22nd, 2022

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US – The flour extraction rate in US flour mills has increased steadily over the past 80 years or so, from 71.6%% to 77.5%, according to statistics from the US Department of Commerce. The trend begs the question: What is the reason for this improvement?

Data shown in Table 1 (right) present yield or extraction data based on the wheat ground for flour. Yield is reported for 98% of the milling industry with milling capacity of 400 cwts/day ...