The Yemeni citizen consumes bread produced from imported wheat grains since the last decades of the 20th century till now. The total quantity of imported grains were estimated to 2.1 million metric tons with a value of 868.5 million US$ in the year 2008. Local production reached to 170,446 metric tons in the same year with self-sufficiency of 8%. Composite flour technology was used to contribute towards the reduction of such huge quantities of wheat grains and to improve nutritive value of the bread. Wheat flour of the trade mark (Al-sanabel) was partially replaced by naked barley flour (95% extraction rate), with different percentages ranged from 0 - 25%.
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