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muesli

UK/ˈmjuːzli/US/ˈmjuːzli/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,493 of 15,258leans spoken

Muesli is a raw mix of oats, nuts and dried fruit. A bowl of muesli, muesli and yoghurt, homemade muesli.

It differs from granola in being raw and unsweetened, since granola is baked with oil and honey. It was invented around 1900 by a Swiss doctor for patients in a sanatorium, and the name is Swiss German.

Mx. Granger · CC0

Definitions of muesli

  1. 1nounmuesliA raw mix of oats, nuts and dried fruit.B1+

    “For breakfast she had a bowl of muesli with cold milk and sliced apple.”

muesli is a food.

Where it comes from

Swiss German Muesli is a diminutive of Mues, a mashed or pureed dish.

  1. gsw

    Müesli

  2. English, today

    muesli

Built from

  • Mues · gsw — a mashed dish

From gsw Müesli, a diminutive of Mues (“a mashed dish”); compare Dutch moes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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muesli in the wild

  • Hazelnuts are used as a snack food, in baking and desserts, and in breakfast cereals such as muesli.

    Hazelnut

  • Traditionally, the primary ingredient in muesli is rolled oats which have not been processed further.

    Muesli

  • Modern commercial brands market muesli that is toasted.

    Muesli

  • Granola is similar to muesli, except the latter is traditionally neither sweetened nor baked.

    Granola

  • Rolled oats are most often the main ingredient in granola and muesli.

    Rolled oats

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.