The word cereal is derived from ceres, the Roman Goddess of grain. The common cereal crops are rice, wheat, corn, oats and rye. The term cereal is not limited to these but also flours, meals, breads and alimentary pastes or pasta. Cereal science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of cereal. It is the study the nature of the cereals and the changes that occurs naturally and as a result of handling and processing.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Ready to cook breakfast cereal

Some breakfast cereals require cooking: others are packaged ready-to-eat. Cooking time of these processed cereals had been greatly reduce and various ‘instant’ forms are available.

Ready-to-cook cereals are mainly wheat or oat products. Wheat or oat cereals consumed hot can take various forms, such as whole, cracked, ground or rolled cereals.

This breakfast cereals are typified by porridge, which traditionally is made from oatmeal or rolled oats.

Ready-to-cook or quick cooking rolled oats are oats groats that have been thinly sliced into 3 or 4 small pieces, then heated and prepared in the same way as old fashion oats.

The oatmeal is not cooked during manufactured unless heated to inactivate lipases and requires considerable cooking.

The process of include grinding or rolling cereals kernels allows for a quicker cooking time than for whole kernels.
Ready to cook breakfast cereal

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