John Kellogg first began experimenting with new ways to prepare healthy food. Yet, he had a vision for the future and he successfully turned dry cereal into a thriving business.
In 1894, after several failed experiments, John Kellogg accidentally left pot of boiled wheat on the stove for an extended period of time. With an eye on their bottom line, John Kellogg decided to try forcing the paste though rollers, hoping for usable sheets of dough.
Instead, it dried into flakes, which were fortunately a big hit among ten Sanitarium’s clientele.
He had accidentally discovered the principally of tempering, which equalizes the moisture throughout the wheat and causes the wheat to flake.
John Kellogg and his younger brother went into full-time packaged flakes cereal production using corn and various other grains. They had a patent for the technique two years later.
Kellogg graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1875. In 1876, John Harvey became the medical superintendent at the Western Health Reform Institute before change its name to Battle Creek Sanitarium.
John Harvey Kellogg and the invention of breakfast cereals
