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Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Post's original product was baked as a rigid sheet, then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder.
A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured him asking viewers, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended Grape Nuts over pine trees (including the oft-repeated quote that Grape Nuts' taste reminded him "of wild hickory nuts"), the commercials gained attention and fueled Gibbons's celebrity status.
In 1897, Post introduced his first dry cereal, a crunchy blend of wheat and barley, which he called Grape Nuts. His first corn-flake product was introduced as " Elijah 's Manna " in 1904. Owing to consumer resistance to the (inaccurate) biblical reference [ 3 ] that was so great that even Great Britain flatly refused to register the name as a ...
Post Grape-Nuts Original. Barbara’s Multigrain Spoonfuls Original. Oatmeal: This hot cereal is a cardiologist favorite. It contains fiber, vitamins and minerals, and studies associate it with ...
The brand is reimbursing Grape-Nuts fans who paid a premium for the cereal during the shortage. The Grape-Nuts shortage is over — and the company wants to pay back its biggest fans Skip to main ...
The history of Grape Nuts cereal reads like an unusually droll Orwell novel. A suicidal cereal genius creates a food that's barely tasty and so bizarrely crunchy it's rumored to break consumers ...
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Last but not least, Grape Nuts are one of Hilbert's favorites. In addition to the nostalgia and taste, you'll get seven grams of fiber in a 1/2 cup serving of cereal.