| Statistic Verification |
| Source: NPD Group |
| Date Verified: 7.26.2012 |
| Cereals are grasses cultivated for the edible components of their grain, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran. Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple crops. In their natural form (as in whole grain), they are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, oils, and protein. However, when refined by the removal of the bran and germ, the remaining endosperm is mostly carbohydrate and lacks the majority of the other nutrients. |
| Cereal Statistics | Data |
| Annual cereal sales | $7.7 Billion |
| Annual boxes of cereal sold | 2.7 Billion |
| American households that purchased cereal at least once this year | 92 % |
| Rank on list of top ten packaged goods sold in U.S. retail stores | 4th |
| Pounds of sugar used annually by the cereal industry | 816,000,000 |
| Number of annual cereal television advertisements | 1.3 million |
| Total spent on cereal commercial air time | $762 |
| Annual Cereal Production in Metric Tons | |
| Maize | 654,907,048 |
| Rice | 588,946,937 |
| Wheat | 587,186,496 |
| Barley | 143,900,504 |
| Sorghum | 57,551,197 |
| Millet | 28,895,677 |
| Oats | 25,941,266 |
| Rye | 17,814,293 |
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