Breakfast cereal (corn flakes)
Cereal de desayuno (copos de maíz)
- Date
- 1894–1906 · confidence high
- Place
- Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
- Credited to
- John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg (1894; Kellogg Company, 1906); C. W. Post (Grape-Nuts, 1897)
- People
- 👤 C. W. Post1854–1914👤 John Harvey Kellogg1852–1943👤 Will Keith Kellogg1860–1951
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Toasted cereal flakes ready to eat, born in an Adventist sanatorium and turned into a branded product. Prototype of the advertised processed food.
What it led to
- Industrial breakfast and marketing to children
- Branded packaged food with prizes and mascots
- Battle Creek's agri-food industry
Built on
- Roller mill for flour1834
- Corrugated cardboard box1871–1874
- Hygienist movement
Made possible
- Muesli (Bircher muesli)c. 1900
- Cereal cardboard box
- Branded processed foods