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Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn (maize). Originally invented as a breakfast food to counter indigestion , [ 1 ] it has become a popular food item in the American diet and in the United Kingdom where over 6 million households consume them.
John Harvey Kellogg developed and marketed a wide variety of vegetarian foods. Many of them were meant to be suitable for an invalid diet, and were intentionally made easy to chew and to digest. Starchy foods such as grains were ground and baked, to promote the conversion of starch into dextrin. Nuts were ground and boiled or steamed.
12. Corn flakes. Who: The John and Will Kellogg. When: 1894. How it was created: Will Kellogg was helping his brother John cook meals for patients at their Battle Creek Sanitarium. The brothers ...
Here's a clue that will help presidential history buffs: They were invented the same year that Woodrow Wilson was elected U.S. president. ... Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
By 1909, Will's company produced 120,000 cases of Corn Flakes daily. John, who resented his brother's success, filed suit against Will's company in 1906 for the right to use the family name. The resulting legal battle, which included a trial that lasted an entire month, ended in December 1920 when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in Will's favor.
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Post Toasties was an early American breakfast cereal made by Post Foods. It was named for its originator, C. W. Post, and intended as the Post version of corn flakes. [1] [2] Post Toasties were originally sold as Elijah's Manna [3] (c. 1904) until criticism from religious groups (and consequent loss of sales) led to a change of name in 1908. [4 ...
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