Recently in the United States, the American government decreed that packages of whole grain cereals must have a label explaining the benefits of these foods and indicating that they prevent diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, among others. I think this is fantastic and I believe that there is a huge advance in current nutritional recommendations; however, as the population becomes aware of the importance of these foods, food companies begin to market all kinds of products with cereals, but in many cases their quality is questionable and the cereals are accompanied by huge amounts of sugar, dairy products and other foods that cause many of the diseases that cereals supposedly prevent.

For me, eating cereals does not mean eating porridge for breakfast made from refined foods, or adding bran to soups or any other more or less strange or sophisticated combination or mixture. Eating cereals every day involves consuming products such as rice, pasta, couscous, bread, barley, rye, corn cobs, oat flakes and many others, especially in their whole grain form.