The berries are large and they grind really well to make nice flour that makes good bread. We've purchased white wheat before that did not make good bread (we always mill our own wheat to flour and are mindful of the milling, making, and baking aspects). This white wheat (unlike some white wheat) seems to be of consistent, high quality with good protein content. We found that it forms nice elastic dough that holds its structure well without having to add additional vital gluten. The dough leavens uniformly (crumb cells do not coalesce) and the loaves do not collapse. The flavor is mild (less 'raw' fiber/husk tasting typical of red wheat) and desirable. All and all, this is good white wheat that we would recommend to anyone who likes to make consistent, high-quality wheat bread with a desirable, mild flavor.
The rigid and flexible combo packaging is amazing and much more than we need if using the product immediately upon arrival. But, it's nice to know the product is well protected or ready for long-term storage if we want it for that. The bucket-bag combo came from Amazon in a cardboard box (everything was still intact and product inside was air tight). The square buckets are sturdy, sealed, and stackable. Also, heavy-duty, air-tight, mylar-laminated inner bags were a plus because it's an excellent moisture/oxygen barrier that protects the wheat against moisture, oxygen degradation, UV irradiation, etc. Large oxygen scavenging packets were used to deplete all the oxygen in the wheat's package (probably overkill size--you can tell because the packets warm up a little when reintroduced to more oxygen and moist air when the mylar is cut open. This reaction is due to the fact that they were NOT completely reacted/spent in the air-tight environment of the mylar bag after having depleted all the oxygen in that air tight environment). Anyhow, they do a great job of creating a vacuum-like sealed product that I think looks cool (images included). We consider the barrier packaging to be very high quality and a strong feature of this product.
So, not only is the product nice, but the packaging (equally important in my opinion), is of excellent quality and should promote shelf life to the max (as long as you don't temperature abuse it!)!
BTW, I'm a certified Food Scientist and have been evaluating food quality day in and day out for over 30 years--so, I'm not just a hack ;)
Happy bread making with this wheat!
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