Quels types de produits céréaliers pour le petit déjeuner ?

Breakfast is an essential meal since it provides 25% of the energetic needs and participates to a better food balance over the day; furthermore breakfast consumption is correlated with a better mental and physical health. An increased consumption of high-quality cereals, such as bread and ready-to-eat cereals, at breakfast should allow reaching the objective of 55% energy supplied by carbohydrates, notably complex carbohydrates (starch and fibre). However, both products exhibit inconstant nutritional qualities according to the raw materials and technological processes used. Brown bread should be favoured instead of white bread which has a low nutritional density and a high glycaemic index; baking processes will have to be improved, and a better communication will be necessary to favour the consumption of breads of high nutritional quality. Ready-to-eat cereals intended for adults are of better nutritional quality than those intended for children, containing less simple sugars and lipids, and more fibre.