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Cereal in milk is not soup. From Wikipedia: Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid.
According to a dictionary definition of soup, broth must be boiled or cooked, and milk does not require that process to be enjoyed with your choice of cereal.” A bowl of cereal. Photo from creativecommons.com. In the end, it seems clear that since uncooked milk is not a broth, cold cereal in cold milk is not a soup.
It’s true: most people do pour their cereal before their milk. You start with the solid and pour the liquid counterpart second, in the same way that you would pour dressing on top of a salad.
Soup, on the other hand, is defined as a, “liquid food prepared by boiling.” Therefore, soup is anything that extracts flavor from a product by letting it soak in broth. In that case, cereal is wheat and soup is stew.
Assuming the cereal has flavor, the water will dilute it. If your cereal is plain corn flakes, the water will make it taste a lot more bland and just make it mushy. Milk tastes good and compliments cereals. It is also a healthy addition to your breakfast, while water is just simple added hydration.
In 1863, James Caleb Jackson, a religiously conservative vegetarian who ran a medical sanitarium in western New York, created a breakfast cereal from graham flour dough that was dried and broken into shapes so hard they needed to be soaked in milk overnight. He called it granula.
Soup is “a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.” So, to answer this burning question, based on dictionary.com, cereal does not count as a soup. From tomato soup to chowder to chicken noodle soup, soup is made from boiling solid foods in liquid.
So coffee is a broth (as opposed to a soup ) made from a particular kind of seed. Incidentally, whether or not it would even qualify as a broth is questionable, as a “broth” is technically defined as an un-thickened “liquid food” which can be consumed as a meal, nutrient-wise.
So no. Cereal is not technically a salad because cereal is not a mixture of vegetables. It is a mixture of cereal grains. There are almost never any vegetables in a bowl of cereal.
“You pour cereal before milk. This makes it hard to see how much milk you’re pouring, so you almost always end up with a pool of it at the bottom of the bowl. “If you put milk in first your sh-t floats on top of it and the proportion of cereal to milk is ruined for the whole meal.”
It’s true: most people do pour their cereal before their milk. You start with the solid and pour the liquid counterpart second, in the same way that you would pour dressing on top of a salad.
When you’ve got cereal and you pour it first, when it “fills up your bowl,” your bowl isn’t really completely full. There’s a bunch of air in your bowl, where the holes in the Cheerios are, or literally in the coca puffs. And because milk is a liquid, it’ll fill up every nook and cranny in between your cereal.
Cereal pieces are not cooked or otherwise processed with milk to create one cohesive whole, namely, soup. Cereal with milk = cereal. Cereal without milk = cereal. Cereal is not blended/cooked/combined in any such way with milk to create soup.
The word ” cereal ” comes from ‘Ceres’, the name of the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture. Grains are called corn in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand corn means maize.
The bottom line The best cereals are high in fiber and low in sugar. That said, many healthier breakfast options exist. Whole, single-ingredient foods — such as oat porridge or eggs — are a great choice. Preparing a healthy breakfast from whole foods is not only simple but starts your day with plenty of nutrition.