Disclosed are cooked dried farinaceous food products such as cooked cereal
doughs, ready-to-eat cereals and grain based snacks fabricated from such
cooked cereal doughs containing or fortified with rice bran oil supplied
at least in part by non-hydrogenated rice bran oil especially high
oryzanol rice bran oil. The cereals contain about 0.1 to 10% added rice
bran oil. The rice bran oil ingredient can be incorporated into the dough
and/or topically applied. The rice bran oil provides the processing
advantages of oil addition during processing with low or now transfatty
acids but with extended shelf stability. The finished fortified cereal
products are not only organoleptically desirable but almost
indistinguishable from their counterparts containing hydrogenated fats.