Food Nutrition Facts

Cereal Grains and Pasta

Cereal crops are different types of grasses cultivated for their grains or seed. It is cultivated worldwide in huge quantities. In most part of the world, cereals are the main source of energy.
In the first world, its consumption is less, but ample. Cereals are rich in carbohydrate, but its nutritive value of protein is negligible. It is seen that eight cereal grains rice, wheat, maize, oats, barley, rye and millet provides about 56% of food energy and 50% of the protein consumed on earth. Thus, it cereal grains are the "staple food" in most part of the world.
Although, Chinese were taking noodles since 200 BC, pasta was not popular in that time. The legend Marco Polo from Italy, while staying 17 years in China, liked the noodles. After coming back home, in the year 1295, Polo first tried Pasta- in original approach. Since then, for centuries, pasta has become a part of family delicacy from regular daily foodstuff to holiday feasts.

Benefits of taking cereal grains and pasta

Cereal grains are good to eat when taken with milk or other such products.
High in energy. low in fat, easy to prepare.
Pasta sauce gives us different minerals and fat.
It is easy to digest.

Risks

NIL

Suggestions

Try not to take maize in bulk amount. A factor in it impairs health.

Recommended daily allowance

A healthy man of about 60 kilograms of weight should take about 2600-2800 kcal a day. Of these, 750-900 kcal of your daily calorie should be consumed from cereals.

Cereal Grains and Pasta subcategories