kellogs cornflakes

[sherry77]

what made kellogs cornflakes a success

[MCC06]

An American named Will Keith Kellogg had a professional interest in health and diet. He worked at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, which was run by his brother, Dr John Harvey. This place was The Priory of the 1870s as riched and famous people flocked to The San for an overhaul. The regime was strict and part of WK Kellogg's brief was to create healthy foodstuffs that would distract patients. He was already producing corn meal (by passing cooked maize through rollers and crumbling the resultant sheet) when one day he left some cooked cereal exposed to the air for longer than usual. When this was rolled, each grain became a perfect single flake. Cornflakes soon became part of the staple diet at The San, and it wasn't long before the brothers were producing them for people to eat at home. By 1898, WK Kellogg had tested and devised his recipe, and found that the flakes were more palatable if made only from the heart of the maize, and flavoured with malt