Bagel – a round yeast roll for breakfast

A bagel is a round yeast roll with a hole in the middle. A true bagel is completely plain and is made with white wheat high-gluten flour, then boiled in water and baked. Boiling the dough reduces the starch content and gives the bagel its outer sheen an hard crust.

The name bagel comes or the German word beugel meaning a round loaf of bread. The first mention of the bagel was in 1610 in Kracow, Poland. Bagels were sold on the streets of New York by the early 20th century.

Bagels now rank one of the most popular breakfast foods in the United States. However, the size of bagels are increasing as well, turning a normally low fat, low-calories food into a high-calories food.

 

Bagels are offered in every conceivable flavor, from the more traditional pumpernickel or onion to the sweetened blueberry or chocolate chip version as well as many other flavors in between. In general, bagels have a very simple formulation.

The formula is very similar to simple bread or roll formulas: flour, salt, yeast and water. Traditional bagels were made with very high protein, spring wheat flour.
Bagel – a round yeast roll for breakfast

Instant Hot Cereal for breakfast

Hot breakfast cereals account for 7% of all breakfast cereals. The most commonly consumed hot breakfast cereals are oatmeal, farina, hominy or corn grits, cream of rice and bulgur.

They are available in three forms: regular, quick cooking, and instant. Instant Hot Cereal helps get the rest of the body going after the brain cells have started working.

It definitely people gets started in a better frame of mind. It is an excellent way to start the day.

Hot cereals are usually made from unrefined grains – most notably oats and wheat. Many hot cereals aren’t fortified with vitamins and minerals and so contain only the nutrients found in the grain itself. These include fiber, B vitamins, vitamin E, iron, zinc, calcium, selenium and magnesium.

Hot cereals made from whole grains are excellent.  Hot cereal can make a healthy breakfast, but the one claiming to contain fruit may offer little actual fruit, with more fruit flavoring and artificial colors.

Many people do not eat hot cereal because they think it’s too time consuming to make. If have microwave it should take no longer thon three to four minutes start to finish.

Hot cereals are often among the breakfast menu items at sit-down restaurants, cafeterias, and hotels. Oat meal, the most common of the hot cereal, is a healthy choice.
Instant Hot Cereal for breakfast 

Breakfast Cereal

Breakfast cereal have been define as “processed grains for human consumption”. The manufacturing of breakfast cereal was one of the earliest commercial applications of extrusion cooking technology and remains one of the most widespread.

The breakfast cereal market has grown since its early beginnings and is now categorized into ready-to-eat cereals (cold cereal) and hot cereals.

Hence the most important raw materials in any breakfast cereal is grain. Most commonly used are corn, wheat, oats, rice and barley. Other ingredients often included in the manufacturing process are salt, sweeteners, flavoring agents, coloring agents, vitamins, minerals and preservatives.

The portions drops well below this in many ready to eat cereals, and less than 50% in presweetened products having nutritive sweeteners )sucrose, or fructose, dextrose, and other corn-based products) as substantial constituents.

Breakfast cereals can be a modest but significant source of protein especially in those products containing protein additives, for which the cereal products are excellent carriers.

In broad terms , then, breakfast cereal ingredients may be classified as:
1) grains or grain products,
2) sweeteners, caloric or otherwise
3) other flavoring or texturizing macro ingredients
4) micro-ingredients for flavor or color, micro ingredients for nutritional fortification and shelf life preservation.
Breakfast Cereal