Breakfast cereal

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Corn flakes with milk
Tender oatmeal

Breakfast flakes , breakfast cereals or cereals are cereal products that are infused with water , milk or fruit juice and make a porridge . Traditional products are corn flakes , oat flakes and muesli . Today the food industry produces a variety of other sugared products.

Types and ingredients

There are several types of products available on the market. The main components are cereals such as oats , wheat , maize , spelled , barley , rye and rice . In addition to pseudo cereals like amaranth , quinoa and buckwheat used. The designations are unprotected and are not described in the German Food Book.

cereal

Ready-made muesli mixes usually consist of oat flakes , flakes from other types of grain and other ingredients. They can contain all of the products listed below.

Fruit cereal

Fruit muesli also contains dried fruit, such as raisins and other dried fruit .

Crunchy cereal

For the Knuspereffekt (common name component English Crisp ) are coated oatmeal or other components with sugar.

  • Fruit cereal

  • Crunchy cereal

Crispy cereal products

Flakes

Flakes are made in two different processes. In the conventional process, the grains are coarsely chopped up. This creates the so-called grits, which are cooked with malt, sugar and salt and then rolled out into flakes and roasted. This corresponds to the classic production of corn flakes .

Flakes can also be produced by extrusion . In this process, a mass of semolina is cooked, which is pressed under pressure through an extruder . The extrudates are then often called extruded cereals .

cornflakes

Cornflakes consist of boiled, rolled and then dried corn. They are often coated with sugar, such as frosties . In addition to the taste, they stay crispy longer in the milk.

  • cornflakes

Extrudates

  • Extruded flakes

  • Extruded crisps with chocolate

Puffed flakes or cereals

  • Puffed rice : Example Rice Krispies
  • Amaranth : Puffed amaranth is the eponymous component of many amaranth mueslis , the main component of which is oat flakes.
  • Quinoa
  • Wheat : example smacks , wheat

  • Kellogg's Rice Krispies

  • Puffed amaranth and puffed rice

  • Puffed wheat

  • Puffed quinoa

Shredded flakes or cereals

  • Weetabix

Further ingredients

In addition to cereals, many products contain glucose syrup and cocoa , as well as food additives such as vitamins , food colors and flavors . Mueslis also contain dried fruit and nuts .

Manufacturer

Web links

Commons : Breakfast cereals  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stiftung Warentest (Ed.): Too much sugar . In: test special children. 2008. pp. 31-35. passim. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ Stiftung Warentest: Cereals for children: Far too sweet for breakfast . Press release. September 25, 2008. Retrieved March 17, 2014.