by Yasmin | Aug 2, 2012 | 1980s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
Shreddies is a breakfast cereal produced from shredded wheat, made from lattices of wholegrain wheat.
Shreddies has been made in the UK since 1953. It was produced under the Nabisco name until the brand in Canada was purchased in 1993 by Post Cereals whose parent company in 1995 became Kraft General Foods which sold Post to Ralcorp in 2008 and is now Post Foods Canada Corp., a unit of Post Holdings which was spun off from Ralcorp in 2012.
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by Yasmin | Jul 27, 2012 | 1980s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
The accidental legacy of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th century, when a team of Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to adhere to thevegetarian diet recommended by the church. Members of the group experimented with a number of different grains, including wheat, oats, rice, barley, and corn. In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan and an Adventist, used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods. A follower of Sylvester Graham, the inventor of graham crackers and graham bread, Kellogg believed that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions.
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by Yasmin | Jul 6, 2012 | 1980s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
Made with Tony’s Secret Formula, they’re Gr-r-reat! Not only are Kellogg’s Frosties super crunchy and great tasting, they are packed with carbohydrates – a great fuel for your body, and one serving provides half your daily needs (RDA) of three B-vitamins, which help convert food into the energy you need. A Gr-r-reat-tasting breakfast cereal! 🙂
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by Yasmin | Jul 3, 2012 | 1970s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
Shredded wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat. As of January 2010, it was available in three sizes: bite sized (¾×1 in), miniature (nearly half the size of the bite-sized pieces), and full size, which may be broken into small pieces before milk is added (many brands refer to these pieces as “biscuits” and show the biscuit count on the box). Both sizes are available in a frosted variety, which has one side coated with sugar and usually gelatin. Some manufacturers have produced “filled” versions of the bite-size cereal containing a raisin at the centre, or apricot, blueberry or cranberry filling.
In the United States, shredded wheat is most heavily advertised and marketed by Post Cereals, which acquired the product in 1993 through its parent company, Kraft Foods, buying it from its long-time producer Nabisco. Kellogg’s sells eight varieties of miniature, or bite-sized, shredded wheat cereal. Natural and organic manufacturer Barbara’s Bakery makes an all-natural version of shredded wheat. In the United Kingdom, the Shredded Wheat brand is owned byCereal Partners, a Nestle/General Mills company, although there are many generic versions and variants by different names. It was first made in the US in 1893, while UK production began in 1926.
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by Yasmin | Jun 25, 2012 | 1980s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes (Frosties in Europe) is a breakfast cereal first introduced by the Kellogg Company. It consists of corn flakes “frosted” or coated with sugar. The “Frosted Flakes” name is used by Kellogg’s in United States and Canada. The cereal was first introduced in 1951 as Sugar Frosted Flakes. The word “sugar” was dropped from the product in the 1980s during a time when many cereals dropped “sugar” from their titles.
“Frosted Flakes”, by itself, is purely a description of the product. As a result, that term cannot be trademarked and can be used by any company making a similar product; thus, on boxes, the words “of corn” are added below the Frosted Flakes logo. By contrast, “Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes” and “Frosties” are registered trademarks in their respective markets.
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by Yasmin | Jun 6, 2012 | 1970s, Breakfast Cereal, Food & Drink
Weetabix was invented in Australia in the 1920s by Bennison Osborne. He and New Zealandpartner Malcolm Macfarlane sold the Australian and New Zealand rights for “Weet-Bix” toSanitarium Health Food Company in 1930. Osborne and Macfarlane then formed the “British & African Cereal Company Pty. Ltd.”, and began exporting the product to South Africa. Production began in 1932 in an unused gristmill at Burton Latimer, near Kettering. When they introduced the product to the British market they renamed the product “Weetabix”. In 1936, the name of the company was changed to Weetabix Limited.
Weet-Bix are currently marketed in Australasia and South Africa by Sanitarium. The product was introduced to North America in 1967, when Weetabix Limited began exporting the product to Canada. The United States followed in 1968.
On May 3rd 2012 Bright Food announced it will take a 60% stake in Weetabix in a deal that values the company at £1.2bn.
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