Breakfast cereal pellets

The cohesive properties are important for keeping the designed particles intact when exposed to mechanical abrasion. This is essential for foods such as breakfast cereals in flakes or for feeds in pellet form. For agglomerated systems, this is dependent on adhesive interparticle interactions. 

Breakfast cereals are typically manufactured using direct expansion or by forming dense pellets. Direct-expanded products are usually flavored and packaged, whereas pellets are usually transformed into their final shape by flaking, oven puffing, or gun puffing. 

What is thermoplastic extrusion Give at least two examples of breakfast cereals produced by direct and pellet-forming technologies ... 

Thermoplastic extrusion Name of the continuous extrusion process in which raw materials, generally refined milled fractions, are cooked and plasticized due to heat and pressure occurring inside the extruder barrel. The starch is gelatinized, and the exiting extrudate is usually formed into predetermined shapes. This process is widely used to produce direct-expanded-products and pellets or intermediate products used for production of many breakfast cereals and snacks. 

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