By Jasmine Kaur
The crunchy, flaky bites of cornflakes dipped in milk is what most Westerns devour as breakfast. But do you know how this breakfast cereal came into being.
While the US was known for its vast breakfast options, ranging from fritters and pancakes to meats and eggs, these heavy delights made indigestion a common problem.
Soon it became an epidemic called dyspepsia. Sylvester Graham developed the Graham crackers in 1827 and James Caleb Jackson invented granula, the breakfast cereal in 1836 to cure it.
However, the motivation behind John Harvey Kellogg’s attempts at making cornflakes was much bigger than curing indigestion.
It is said that he was driven by the idea of removing sinful practices, one of which was indulging in sexual pleasures. To eliminate such foods from the diet, he, along with his brother invented cornflakes.
From whole wheat dough to corn, Kellogg brothers finally achieved the ideal cereal dream of creating something hard, bland and less flavourful that doesn’t trigger hormones.