John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the health reforms advocated by the Battle Creek Progressive Friends movement and the eugenics policies espoused b
Kellogg, c. 1915
Kellogg in 1881, aged about 29
Battle Creek Medical Surgical Sanitarium before 1902
Breathing exercises at Battle Creek Sanitarium (c. 1900)
Breakfast cereal is a category of food, including food products, made from processed cereal grains, that are eaten as part of breakfast or as a snack food, primarily in Western societies.
Additional nutrition is provided to flaked breakfast cereal by serving it in milk, topping it with fresh fruit such as raspberries, and including beverages like tea and orange juice, as "part of a complete breakfast".
A Quaker Oats advertisement circa 1900
1910 Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertisement
Breakfast cereals primarily marketed to children, such as Froot Loops, are commonly brightly colored and high in sugar.