The present invention relates to a process for skinning wheat grains and
to the products obtained with said process, namely skinned wheat grains
and the separated outer skin fragments. It also concerns a specific
installation to implement this process. The wheat grain skinning process
of the invention notably comprises the following steps: a) cleaning the
raw wheat grains; b) moistening the cleaned wheat grains; c) contacting
the wheat grains with ozone, after or at the time as their moistening at
step b); d) separating the detached outer skin fragments from the mass of
grains partly or wholly skinned at step c).