flaked cereal

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  • wheat
    In cereal processing: Flaked cereals

    Wheat and rice flakes are manufactured, but most flaked breakfast foods are made from corn (maize), usually of the yellow type, broken down into grits and cooked under pressure with flavouring syrup consisting of sugar, nondiastatic malt, and other ingredients. Cooking is often…

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variety of breakfast cereals

  • breakfast cereal
    In breakfast cereal

    …are of four basic types: flaked, made from corn, wheat, or rice that has been broken down into grits, cooked with flavors and syrups, and then pressed into flakes between cooled rollers; puffed, made by exploding cooked wheat or rice from a pressure chamber, thus expanding the grain to several…

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