The phrase "a pound of wheat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities of agricultural products, cooking, or trade.
Example: "I need to buy a pound of wheat to make homemade bread."
Alternatives: "one pound of wheat" or "a pound of grain".
In the past, two parties would haggle over a pound of wheat.
Each prisoner is served a daily diet that must include about a pound of wheat or rice, three ounces of lentils and nine ounces of vegetables.
Eating meat is unhealthy and grossly inefficient (you need up to 100 times more water to produce a pound of beef than you do a pound of wheat. A cow is essentially a giant sponge. Although if it were a sponge, it would be very eco-friendly. This is getting complicated. Let's leave it).
A primer: The earth may very well be running out of clean water, and by some estimates it takes 100 times more water (up to 2,500 gallons) to produce a pound of grain-fed beef than it does to produce a pound of wheat.
Shamrock Farms, Stanfield, Arizona – Including all the water needed to grow feed and grass for grazing, it takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef – 100 times more than what is needed to produce a pound of wheat. .
Shamrock Farms, Stanfield, Arizona—Including all the water needed to grow feed and grass for grazing, it takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef 100 times more than what is needed to produce a pound of wheat. .
Eating a pound of whole wheat, by contrast, is like driving less than a mile.
Meat production also wastes water: Nearly 2,400 gallons of water go to produce one pound of meat, whereas only 25 gallons would be required to produce one pound of wheat.
It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat while only 25 gallons are required to grow one pound of wheat, reports Peta.
