Are you also, like half of the population, eating a bowl of cereal every morning?
Have you ever even thought how were cereals invented? Cereals were invented in the 1800s as an unappetizing and difficult to digest health food. It was made out of nuggets of bran and it was thought to regulate a heavy meat diet. As at that time, Americans were mostly eating beef or pork for breakfast.
Dr. John Kellogg showed interest in health foods for his patients and he created granola and many other meatless breakfast foods, together with his brothers. This is when they came across the method that let wheat flake instead of being a nugget and corn flakes were born!
In 1902 Force wheat flakes became the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal introduced into the United Kingdom. The cereal achieved wide success in Britain, at its peak in 1930 selling 12.5 million packages in one year. After World War II, the big breakfast cereal companies increasingly started to target children. The flour was refined to remove fiber, and sugar was added to improve the flavor for children. The new breakfast cereals began to look starkly different from their ancestors. Different mascots were introduced and the rest is history.
You should read these facts while eating a delicious bowl of cereal.
