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  1. Kieran
    27.04.2023 @ 10:35

    Unfortunately, the current industry standards may surprise you with a bad truth about cereals: products labeled “whole wheat” only require 51% of “whole wheat flour”. This means that 49% of white flour can be refined. So when it comes to mysterious brand names and unreadable ingredient lists on the back of the box, how do you know what youre serving on the breakfast table? To help change things, American winners Nihkil Arora and Alejandro Velez from Back to the Roots offer their (delicious) efforts: Stoneground organic breakfast cereals, the first breakfast cereals made from American stone, 100%. After launching their ready-to-grow products (Mushroom Mini Farm, which grows mushrooms in 10 days, and Water Garden, a self-cleaning fish tank that grows food) to 10,000 stores nationwide, Back to the Roots decided to expand their focus from ready-to-grow products to ready-to-eat food. “Cereal was one of those special categories – something we all enjoy eating, but there was a category that lacked a lot of transparency, was overly processed, and had no innovation for almost 100 years,” says co-founder Nihkil Arora. “We started producing the best types of cereals – with great taste, nutrition, and simple ingredients – and new sustainable and practical packaging.” They started a farm tour to learn more. After visiting a wheat farm, the two were surprised at their knowledge of cereals, how cereals grew, how cereals turned into bread, biscuits, cereals, and other products. Arora says, “When we started diving deeper, we also realized how much we were getting rid of whole grains.” “The industrial milling process over the past two decades has created a system in which the most nutritious and flavorful parts of the wheat kernel (bran and wheat germ) are removed, leaving behind pure white flour without nutrients. The milling process – to extend shelf life and increase profits – seemed crazy to us. Thats when they discovered stone grinding technology, a process that preserves the entire wheat kernel and preserves natural taste and nutrition. Unlike a number of brand names you find on the supermarket shelf, there is complete transparency about this type of cereal. It consists of three simple ingredients: whole organic wheat stone (grown and ground in California), organic cane sugar (grown in Florida), and sea salt (from San Francisco Bay) – thats it! The cereals are low in sugar