Cereal raw materials, products and their significance

This bachelor thesis deals with cereal raw materials, products and their significance. The dominant theme of work is a breakfast cereals. The theoretical part focuses on the characterization of a cereal grains, a cereal chemistry and nutritional value. A breakfast cereals are also defined in this part as well as major cereals raw materials for their production, production technology and cereal products. At the end of this section the laboratory methods for evaluation of cereal products and raw material are described. The practical part describes the operating laboratory control of cereal and related materials. This section also includes a titrimetric determination of peroxide number, which provides rancid fats used in the manufacture of cereal products. The practical part also contains the sensory analysis of cereal products - concretely mu¨sli. There is also evaluation of the attached questionnaire about breakfast cereals and sensory evaluation of the quality of three products of various producers