Breakfast cereal with milk pieces

摘要

Aggregate pieces of instantized dry milk powder, which are uniformly distributed among cereal pieces in multi-serving packages of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal, tend to maintain their distribution by virtue of a size which is made comparable to that of the cereal pieces. The comparable sizes act to resist any sifting and settling separation and tend to provide a substantially uniform proportion of cereal and liquid milk in each serving, when water is added. An instantized dried milk powder, which is made potentially cohesive due to the inclusion of uncrystallized lactose or the addition of anhydrous sucrose, is then made into larger aggregate forms by substantially immediate compression after a small amount of moisture has been acquired by brief exposure in a humid atmosphere. These special aggregates, which are durable in the cereal package, quickly disintegrate in a sufficiency of cold water and revert to a readily dissolved and dispersible powder to furnish a liquid form of milk with minimal stirring. The aggregate pieces may also be made to resemble the shapes as well as the size of cereals to which they are added.