Flour Facts

• One whole grain of wheat makes over 20,000 particles of flour.
• It takes around 350 ears of wheat to make enough flour for one 800 gram loaf of bread.
• A wheat crop will produce on average 7.5 tonnes of grain per hectare - that's enough to make 11,500 loaves of bread.
• Breadmaking flour accounts for just over 60% of UK flour production.
• There are 30 flour milling companies operating 57 operating mills.  Virtually all of these are nabim members: nabim is the representative organisation for the UK flour milling industry, www.nabim.org.uk.
• UK flour millers use over 5.5 million tonnes of wheat each year to produce nearly 4.5 million tonnes of flour. Source: DEFRA/nabim
• UK flour consumption per capita reached 74kg in 2008/9