How are breakfast cereals made?
Breakfast cereals include: • Ready-to-eat cereals which can be eaten without further cooking required. • Hot cereals – which require further cooking prior to consumption. Ingredients Basic ingredients • Grains or grain products – ready-to-eat cereals are mainly made from corn, wheat, oats or rice and hot cereals are generally made from oats. • Salt – provides flavour. • Sugar – provides flavour and texture. • Malt extract – provides flavour and colour. Optional ingredients • Vitamins and minerals (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate and iron) are added to most breakfast cereals in amounts as prescribed in the Food Standards Code. Vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6, calcium, zinc and magnesium are also added to some breakfast cereals. Minerals and stable vitamins, such as niacin and riboflavin, are added to the basic ingredients and the more labile vitamins, such as thiamin, are sprayed on the product after processing. In choosing the form of minerals and vitamins to be added, manufacture
