What's the difference between cereal and porridge?

Cereal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
  • (n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
  • (2) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
  • (3) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
  • (4) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
  • (5) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
  • (6) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (7) A comparison was made of the kinetics of the carboxylation reaction of bicarbonate-magnesium-activated ribulose biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase purified from cold-hardened and unhardened winter rye (Secale cereale L. cv.
  • (8) Alkaline ribonuclease (pH optimum 7.6) was isolated from rye (Secale cereale L) germ cytosol and partially purified; the preparation was devoid of other nucleolytic activities.
  • (9) The data reported here indicates that Korean cereals harvested in 1984 are simultaneously contaminated with NIV, DON and ZEN, and the incidences and levels are similar to those observed in the cereals harvested in 1983.
  • (10) Although intestinal cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase activity, as determined by benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase and 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase, was greatly reduced (65-90%) in animals maintained on a semipurified control diet compared with standard cereal-based chow, there were no differences observed in heme oxygenase activity between the two dietary treatment groups.
  • (11) Foods such as legumes appear to be digested less rapidly than many cereal foods although even amongst these large differences in rates of in vitro digestion exist.
  • (12) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
  • (13) The effect of chain length and unsaturation on the haemolytic properties of cereal resorcinolic lipids, (5-n-alk(en)ylresorcinols), was studied using isolated saturated, monoenoic and dienoic homologues.
  • (14) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
  • (15) Canned spaghetti and meat balls, the TV dinner, canned chicken-and-vegetable baby food, and food bars had PER values between 91 and 73 per cent of that of casein, while PER values for ground beef and high-protein cereal were significantly higher than casein.
  • (16) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
  • (17) "I'd just ask what type of breakfast cereal they like," he says.
  • (18) We face a number of technical challenges in reducing it further in our cereals.
  • (19) Two mixed-food breakfast meals composed predominantly of either red kidney beans or bran cereal were fed to six healthy young men.
  • (20) It contains the largest introns of all the cereal alpha-amylase-encoding genes examined to date.

Porridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (2) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
  • (3) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (4) 2 Crumble the blue cheese into the porridge and then cook on a medium heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until it thickens to your liking.
  • (5) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.
  • (6) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
  • (7) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
  • (8) Breakfast in the hub is disappointing – with porridge and drinks served in paper cups – and costs an extra £5.
  • (9) Lady Jenkin’s “let them eat porridge” outburst overshadowed the Church of England’s Feeding Britain report launch.
  • (10) Fine in the sense of plain porridge, or a grey day on which it neither rains, blows nor shines.
  • (11) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
  • (12) I drag myself out of bed about 7.30am, grab some porridge with honey and bananas for breakfast and – if I'm in university that day – walk to campus, which is about two minutes away.
  • (13) Porridge with blue cheese and honey-roasted walnuts Columbiahillen's porridge adapts a Transylvanian recipe, turning the decidedly non-traditional combination of blue cheese, walnuts and honey into a comforting lunch or breakfast.
  • (14) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
  • (15) In boiling tests with neutral porridge no migration of aluminium into the test matrix was observed from the pan.
  • (16) I had a large bowl of porridge today, which cost 4p.
  • (17) David Henderson, who lived to 107, gave credit to porridge, prunes, and never going to bed on a full stomach.
  • (18) But it doesn't stop there – shoppers are also stocking up on frozen salmon or cod fillets, ready-made frozen curries, chocolate-chip cookies and porridge oats.
  • (19) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
  • (20) For eight months we have lived on porridge and bread and smuggled yogurt,” says Nabil, a jovial clerk employed by a pharmaceutical company, who did not want his full name published for security reasons.