Granola vs. Cereal

Granola vs. Cereal — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Granola and Cereal

Granolanoun

A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.

Cerealnoun

(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

Granolaadjective

Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.

You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.

Cerealnoun

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

Granolanoun

cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar

Cerealnoun

(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.

Would you like some cereal?Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
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Cerealnoun

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet

Cerealnoun

foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Cerealnoun

a breakfast food prepared from grain

Cerealadjective

made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it;

a cereal beveragecereal grasses