Granola cereals

Granola is an improvement over cereals made from refined grains. The major raw material used to make a granola cereal is rolled oats, either regular whole-rolled or quick-cooking oats.

Nuts pieces, coconut, brown sugar, honey, malt extract dried fruits, dried milk, water and vegetable oil are all mixed with the oats. Spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg can be also added. Mass produced crunchy granola bars are reasonably healthy, high density, high-energy food and some of the best things for hikers to carry when they do hiking.

Sugar content in granola cereals ranges from 22% to 32% of the dry weight of the cereals. When granola bars first arrived on the market they were a mixture of rolled oats, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, honey, some sugar and a variety of oils but they contained both protein and ca0rbhydrates in sufficient quantity to be better for consumer than most candy bar.

Production of most granola bars involves no heat, other than heating the syrup. Some version of granola bars are dipped in a coating after extrusion. Typically this take place as the bars pass through an enrober, where liquid coating – chocolate, yogurt, carob and so on - is poured over them.
Granola cereals

Cereal bars*

Cereal bars are presented in the conventional countlines format and size and are characterized by consisting predominantly of cereal, nuts and fruit. It is convenience foods of increasing popularity as regular and calorie-low sources of nutrients and dietary fiber to reduce obesity related health problems.

Cereal bars were among the most popular, catering to those who missed breakfast and also those who simply wanted a sweet snack that provided a healthy alternative to the traditional candy bar.

Over the years cereal bars have evolved from the original hard and crunchy to soft and chewy and finally to chocolate covered soft and chewy products which closely resemble standard chocolate countlines.

The idea of cereal bars was occurred to adopt the shape of a different product that consumers were used to: chocolate bars. Cereal bars was born when the concepts of cereal and chocolate bars merged.

Cereals are produced using cereal flakes, nuts, dried fruit pieces, chocolate flakes and various other ingredients. Cereal bars often coated with chocolate or a milk powder/fat milk.

Cereal bars