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Wheat is a grass, so... yes? You can live on just wheat products (and water) for a fair while, but it's not nutritionally complete by itself -- so you'll get some sort of nutritional deficiency eventually if that's all you eat.
Vitamin C is probably the most important one, considering that it was a common issue for age-of-sail sailors - after a couple of weeks at sea, they mostly had hard (probably whole wheat) bread, preserved meat, probably some preserved vegetables that got their vitamin c cooked out of them, water and usually some sort of alcoholic drink, and scorbut is AFAIK the most common nutritional deficiency issue they developed.
Yeah, I figure scurvy is probably most likely followed by some sort of issue with not enough fat, but I'm not a doctor.