Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing

Breakfast cereal manufacturing comprises establishments that produce ready-to-eat or cook-type cereal foods. The boundary between this industry and flour milling is that flour milling establishments produce flour, meal, or flour mixes as their primary output, whereas breakfast cereal manufacturers further process grains into finished cereal products intended for consumption as breakfast foods. Establishments engaged in wet milling corn or crushing oilseeds to produce intermediate ingredients are classified in starch and vegetable fats and oils manufacturing, not breakfast cereal manufacturing.