cold cereal

Thân thiện

A child pours cold cereal into a bowl for breakfast.

Definition

Noun: A ready-to-eat breakfast food made from processed grains, typically served with cold milk and not requiring cooking before consumption.

Examples

• For a quick breakfast, I usually have cold cereal with almond milk.
• The supermarket aisle is filled with many different brands of cold cereal, from corn flakes to granola.
• Children often prefer sweetened cold cereal over oatmeal.

Advanced Usage

• As a mass noun: "Cold cereal" is often treated as an uncountable noun when referring to the food category in general.
  • Is there any cold cereal left in the cupboard?
• As a countable noun: It can be countable when referring to specific types or servings.
  • This store sells over fifty different cold cereals.

Variants and Related Words

• Breakfast cereal: A broader term that includes both cold (ready-to-eat) and hot (cooked) cereals like oatmeal.
• Dry cereal: A synonym emphasizing the state of the cereal before milk is added.
• Ready-to-eat cereal (RTE cereal): The formal term used in the food industry, synonymous with "cold cereal."

Synonyms

• Ready-to-eat cereal
• Dry cereal

Antonyms

• Hot cereal
• Cooked cereal (e.g., oatmeal, porridge, cream of wheat)

Học thuật

Noun

1. a cereal that is not heated before serving

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dry cereal