Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn. Originally invented as a breakfast food to counter indigestion, it has become a popular food item in the American
Kellogg's Corn Flakes, with milk
The dry cereal prior to milk being added
Advertisement for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes from the July 21, 1910 issue of Life magazine
A newspaper advertisement for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes in 1919
The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, was an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Kellogg's produced breakfast cereal a
Corn flakes
…brother John Kellogg who was the superintendent. The breakfast cereal proved popular among the patients and Kellogg subsequently started what became the Kellogg Company to produce corn flakes for the wider public. A patent for the process was granted in 1896, after a legal battle between the two brothers. With corn…
Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan
Former Kellogg's Café, Union Square (Manhattan)
First Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. corn flakes package (1906), later to become the Kellogg Food Company in 1908