Rye is the most common place ergot grows, which is another common bread grain. I am not disagreeing with your post, and ergot can grow on wheat too, just pointing out that rye is a much more common source of egot contamination.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I dont really know these things but i always just assumed rye (and barely) was just a kind of wilder less domesticated wheat.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

all cereals are related rather closely

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

this is one of the more polite "um actually"-s I've ever read