Honey Nut Cheerios

Hearing my mother’s voice waking me up at 5 o’clock in the morning during my summer vacation was not always my cup of tea. This was supposed to be my time to sleep in and enjoy not going to school. However, my mother insisted that I was not allowed to stay at the house--no matter how much I begged and pleaded. During the summer my mother had to go off to work everyday while my father would work around the farm. Every summer I spent the entirety of my time helping my father out on the farm. He…

Then, two weeks later, the worst day of my life came into place. It was an empty morning. I went downstairs to grab so breakfast. I snatched my favorite cereal, Honey Nut Cheerios, and dashed to the bus stop. It was a usual school day, boring as heck. When I got home the atmosphere seemed dense. My dad was home, which was unusual because, he was never home before me. Also, my brother was home early from school. I ran…

Chapter-1 Introduction Bran is a outer most layer of the cereal grain and consists of the nucellar epidermis, seed coat, pericarp and aleurone. The aleurone layer consists of heavy walled, cube shaped cells which are composed primarily of cellulose. It is low in starch and high in minerals, fat, and protein. However, due to its thick cellulosic walls, these nutrients are unavailable for digestion in monogastric species. Bran from a wide array of cereal grains have been shown to have an…