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Later, the company began producing cereal, which received endorsement by Webster Edgerly, founder of Ralstonism, to market Ralston breakfast cereals. Edgerly was at the time promoting the consumption of whole-grain cereal. These cereals became so successful that the name of the enterprise was changed in 1902 to the Ralston-Purina Company. [2] [3]
Ralcorp can trace its ancestry to 1898 when William H. Danforth of Purina Mills, which made animal feeds, began making breakfast cereal. He sought and received the endorsement of Webster Edgerly (Dr. Ralston) who founded the Ralstonism social movement. [3] Ralston cereal became so successful that Purina Mills was renamed Ralston Purina in 1902. [4]
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This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies, such as Kellanova, WK Kellogg Co, General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nestlé, Quaker Oats and Post Consumer Brands, but similar equivalent products are often sold by other manufacturers and as store brands. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can ...
Chex is an American brand of breakfast cereal currently manufactured by General Mills.It was originally known as Shredded Ralston, first produced in 1936 and owned by Ralston Purina of St. Louis, Missouri, then later renamed Chex in 1950. [1]
Ralston Purina products — the former American breakfast cereal and pet food manufacturer. The present day successor is Nestlé Purina PetCare . Subcategories
Later, in 1902, he merged with university professor Webster Edgerly, founder of Ralstonism, who was at the time producing breakfast cereals, to form the "Ralston Purina Company". [1] Ralston Purina sold Purina Mills, the U.S. animal feed business, to British Petroleum in 1986, while retaining the pet food and international animal feed ...
Freakies was a brand of sweetened breakfast cereal produced by Ralston and sold in the United States.The cereal – which consisted of crunchy, light brown, torus-shaped amalgam – was Ralston's first major venture into the sweetened ready-to-eat cereal market, and was marketed using a cast of seven creatures known collectively as "the Freakies".