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Benefits and challenges of food processing
R. A. FLORES (1). (1) University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.

Food processing has been targeted lately as one of those “evils” that keep us from having healthy lives. For the cereal science community, it seems that this is one of those issues that will go away easily, since the benefits of food processing are very obvious to us. We can never be so wrong! The challenges in front of all of us are big and we need to do a better job of educating the consumer about the benefits of processing that allow us to have high quality food available all year around. However, we need to recognize those elements in our “processing culture” that need attention and can be subject to misinterpretation.

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