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Kix (cereal) "Kid-tested. Parent-approved". Kix (stylized as KiX) is an American brand of breakfast cereal introduced in 1937 by the General Mills company of Golden Valley, Minnesota. [1] The product is an extruded, expanded puffed-grain cereal made with cornmeal.
Puffed grains are grains that have been expanded ("puffed") through processing. They have been made for centuries with the simplest methods like popping popcorn. Modern puffed grains are often created using high temperature, pressure, or extrusion. People eat puffed grains in many ways, but it can be as simple as puffed grain alone and with ...
Alexander P. Anderson. Anderson with the tubes he used to make puffed grains, 1933. Alexander Pierce Anderson (November 23, 1862 – May 7, 1943) was an American plant physiologist, botanist, educator and inventor. His scientific experiments led to the discovery of "puffed rice", a starting point for a new breakfast cereal that was later ...
In early 2009, a live actor dressed up as a Corn Pops puff became the new mascot of Corn Pops. Then, in mid-2009, Kellogg's introduced an alternative mascot named the "Sweet Toothasaur", consisting of the upside down bottom half of an actor's face, with a green felt cap with googly eyes and red paper horns on the actor's chin.
Cocoa Puffs. Cocoa Puffs is an American brand of chocolate -flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills. [1] Introduced in 1956, the cereal consists of small orbs of corn and rice flavored with cocoa. Cocoa Puffs have the same shape as Kix and Trix cereal. Cocoa Puffs are sold in Canada, Latin America, and Europe under ...
Puffcorn. Puffcorn or corn puffs are puffed or extruded corn snacks made with corn meal, which can be baked or fried. Puffcorn belongs in the snack group products made with corn grits, rice, wheat, or other cereals. Puffcorn is often flavoured with cheese, caramel, oil, chili, onion, or garlic powder, and many other spices. [1]
Prior to the early-1950s, marshmallows were usually either bars or small squares, rather than the modern cylindrical extruded shapes. In 1948, Doumak, an American food company, invented and began patenting the modern extruding process, [1] which Kraft would start using in 1953, [2] and by 1958, begin branding as "Jet-Puffed".
Cheese puffs. Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die that forms the particular shape. They may be ball-shaped, curly ("cheese curls"), straight ...