granola bar
A muesli bar is a candy in the form of a bar that contains processed grains .
General
Depending on the variety, chocolate , dried fruit , nuts , fruit fillings, milk cream or glaze are also processed. Muesli bars are produced in a hard, crispy or in a soft, pliable consistency.
The bars contain puffed , flaked , roasted or ground cereals of different types in different mixtures. The shape, cohesion and consistency are determined by food chemical and technical processes, such as the addition of carbohydrates , fats or gelatine and baking . The addition of spices and fruits allows flavor variations. In addition to conventional products, there are also organic muesli bars.
Muesli bars are considered a healthier alternative to other sweet snacks, not least because of their high fiber content , although some products have a high sugar content . There are now bars that do not contain any added sugar. Most of the ingredients are then only bound with syrup ( e.g. maltitol syrup ) and are somewhat lower in calories.
history
It is not clear who the invention of the muesli bar goes back to. The American farmer and author Herrick Kimball claims he sent the idea of marketing a muesli in bar form to an inventors' magazine in 1975. She was then picked up by the food industry without his being paid for it. The invention is also attributed to the American inventor Stanley Mason.
Regional differences in the term
In Germany, the term muesli is not regulated by law, so that muesli bars do not have to consist mainly of breakfast cereals and cereals , but may contain maltitol syrup as the main ingredient . In Switzerland, the term cereal bar is used because "muesli" means little mouse there , in contrast to "muesli", which stands for small mush and colloquially for cereal flake mixture .
Web links
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- ↑ Keep muesli or cereal bars together: unflavoured gelatine hydrolysates ; in: Die Ernahrungindustrie 11/98, p. 12 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Herrick Kimball: I invented Granola Bars
- ↑ Stanley Mason, 84, Prolific Inventor in: New York Sun January 19, 2006, [1]
- ↑ Schwartauer Werke GmbH & Co.KGaA on the subject of muesli bars. ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Haco Nutrients, Gümligen ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Zwicky AG, Wigoltingen ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Variant dictionary of German - the standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol, Walter de Gruyter Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-016574-0 , 954 pages. p. 516.
- ^ Wiktionary
