Background: Cereals are the most staple foods in human diet and the main components of the daily diet. This work was designed to determine the level of essential and non-essential elements, the in vitro bioavailability, interrelationship, and associated health risk in consumed cereal grains in Nigeria to assess their safety and wholesomeness. Methods: The contents of phytate, oxalate, and some...

The quality of protein is based on their amino acid composition, especially the content and availability essential acids. Cereals are important sources for human nutrition, but limited in amounts acids, notably lysine. aim this study was to analyze chemical composition profiles different cereals that nutritional purposes diet. protein, moisture crude fat varied significantly from 7.83 13.22%, 1...

Twelve presweetened breakfast cereals were evaluated for cariogenic potential by in vitro methods. The parameters evaluated were the levels of acid produced by a cariogenic strain of Streptococcus mutans as influenced by each cereal, the percentage of sugar content, and the salivary retention time of glucose after ingestion of each cereal with or witho~¢t milk. Cariogenicity was found to be rel...

Since cereals provide much of the digestible energy and considerable amounts of the protein in feeds for livestock, effects of the processing to which they are subjected are of considerable practical significance. In most developed countries, a substantial proportion of the total supply of cereals is used for feeding livestock. In the United Kingdom, the Home Grown Cereals Authority have estima...

There have been no comprehensive reviews of the relation of breakfast cereal consumption to nutrition and health. This systematic review of all articles on breakfast cereals to October 2013 in the Scopus and Medline databases identified 232 articles with outcomes related to nutrient intake, weight, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, digestive health, dental and mental health, and c...

INTRODUCTION An understanding of the feeding ecology of the red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) is necessary for a comprehensive assessment of the potential impact of this species on cereals development. Queleas are reported to subsist primarily on wild Gramineae (Ward 1965a; Gaston 1976), but their mobility and tendency to feed in large aggrega-tions readily adapts them to becoming a major cerea...