Corn flakes are a popular breakfast cereal originally manufactured by Kellogg's through the treatment of corn (maize). A patent for the product was registered on May 31, 1894 under the name Granose.
Cornflakes originally came about when John Harvey Kellogg, an advocate of celibacy as well as a healthy diet, believed there was a link between diet and chastity. Kellogg served his patients deliberately dull meals as he believed that would discourage...
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Corn flakes are a popular breakfast cereal originally manufactured by Kellogg's through the treatment of corn (maize). A patent for the product was registered on May 31, 1894 under the name Granose.
Cornflakes originally came about when John Harvey Kellogg, an advocate of celibacy as well as a healthy diet, believed there was a link between diet and chastity. Kellogg served his patients deliberately dull meals as he believed that would discourage any sexual desires. However one day while cooking for his patients at his health spa, Kellogg accidentally overcooked a batch of corn. Not wanting to throw them out, he processed the batch of corn anyway, but instead of forming into the desired dough sheets, the corn formed into flakes, but when feeding the flakes to his patients they received an overwhelming good response and along with his brother, the two Kellogs went into business.
A former patient of the Battle Creek Sanitarium named C. W. Post started a rival company, as well as the...
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