Breakfast cereals and how they are made : introduction / Breakfast : forms, ingredients, and process flow

Raw materials' fundamentals: An agronomic overview of US cereal cropping systems / Cereal grains and other ingredients / Cereal raw material pretreatment / Major changes in cereal biopolymers during ready-to-eat cereal processing / Extrusion : cooking and expansion / Thin-layer sugar crystallization principles

Process and packaging: Material handling and transporting / Weighing and blending (including granola processing) / Cooking / Drying / Milling and forming / Tempering / Toasting / Coating / Fortification / Packaging technology and food quality

Finished food: Nutritional aspects of breakfast cereals / Environmental challenges in breakfast cereal manufactur / Breakfast cereals : current and future challenges