All-purpose, bread flour, cake or whole wheat flour, Canada mills it all. Curious about how wheat becomes flour? Check out the video to see how it happens.

Canada produces high quality, sustainably grown wheat to make bread, tortillas, naan, couscous and pasta, and flours to create our favourite foods at home.

Flour is milled from the seeds or kernels of the wheat plant. Each kernel is made of three parts: bran, germ, and endosperm.

Once wheat arrives at the mill, the kernels must be cleaned and prepared for milling. Next, the wheat kernels are conditioned, which means they are softened with water before they are fed into the mill to be ground or milled into smaller pieces. Once milled, the ground material is sifted to separate each part of the kernel – the bran, germ, and endosperm.

While the final product is wheat flour, there are many variations of flour that can be made from different parts of the kernel. Some flours, like whole grain or whole wheat flour contain all parts of the kernel, while refined, or all-purpose flour only uses the finest particles of the endosperm making it best for making cakes, cookies, and biscuits.

Want to learn more about flour? Check out Wheat Basics.