Abstract: Novel cereal products and methods of making those products are provided. The cereal products can be utilized as baby food. The methods of making these products comprise extruding ingredients including water and a pre-gelatinized starch and/or pre-gelatinized flour through an extruder barrel under low shear conditions so as to preserve the integrity of the starch or flour. The extrudate is dried and milled to the desired cereal particle size for packaging and later reconstitution with water.