The 10 Best Quotes From the Study That Proves Cereal Tastes Better With Milk Than Water
Corn Flakes Wikimedia CommonsBut how does it taste with other fluids? Grapefruit juice? Motor oil? Liquid nitrogen? At Pontificia University Católica in Santiago, Chile, important work is being done. Sick of people repeatedly insisting that corn flakes are delicious when swimming in a bowl of tap water (I guess?), a team of researchers embarked on a remarkably thorough examination of the effects of different liquids--2% milk, skim milk, and water--on breakfast cereal (both corn flakes and quinoa flakes). This is a real study, and we at PopSci spent real money and real time to read it. Here are the ten best quotes from this study, which appeared in Volume 76, Issue 3 of the Journal of Food Science. 1. From the abstract, the brief summary that appears before the full article: "Keywords: breakfast foods, microstructure, milk soaking, quinoa" Read: This article will be crazy. 2. "Most consumption methods of breakfast cereal flakes (BCF) involve...