Sorghum Breakfast Cereal Counts in Shenzhen and Illawarra Supermarkets

A 9.5 KB Excel file summarizes counts and percentages of sorghum-containing breakfast cereals found in supermarkets. Collected by Anita Stefoska-Needham, it compares product availability in Shenzhen, China in February 2023 with the Illawarra region of Australia in April 2024. The data likely provides a snapshot of retail offerings for this specific grain.

Use Cases

• Compare the prevalence of sorghum as an ingredient in breakfast cereals across two distinct geographic markets.
• Analyze retail availability of specific grain types in major supermarkets versus smaller health food stores.
• Track the presence of sorghum-based products in the breakfast cereal category over a 14-month period.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly structured as counts (n) and percentages (%).
• Provides a direct comparison between two distinct geographic regions and time points.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific stores and months surveyed.

Provenance

Source

Anita Stefoska-Needham via figshare

Collection Method

Manual survey of major supermarkets and a health food store.

Time Range

February 2023 (Shenzhen) and April 2024 (Illawarra)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:45:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Shenzhen, China and the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia