• Home
• Recipes
  • By Food Item▶
    • Pancakes
    • Waffles
    • French Toast
    • Omelets
    • Scrambles
    • Eggs, Etc.
    • Oatmeal
    • Baked Goods
    • Homemade Cereals
    • Fruity
    • Crepes
    • Souffles
    • Quiche
    • Breakfast Drinks
    • Other
  • By Breakfast Concept▶
    • American
    • International
    • Healthy
    • Regional
    • Fancy
    • Experimental
  • Recipe Super Index
• Library
  • Breakfast Articles▶
    • All Articles
    • Ask Mr Breakfast
    • Breakfast Holidays
    • Research And Statistics
  • Product Reviews
  • About Mr Breakfast▶
    • About The Site
    • About The Man
  • Site Index
• Breakfast Blog
• Cereal Project
  • Cereals - Alphabetical
  • Cereals By Company
  • Cereal Timeline
  • Top 100 Cereals
  • Cereal Families
  • Video Library
  • Cereal Games
  • Message Boards
  • Buy Cereal Online
  • About The Project

Post, Charles William

b. 1854 d. 1914

American manufacturer of breakfast cereals; founder of Postum Cereal Company (1895). The company was renamed General Foods Corp in 1922. In 1895, he introduced Postum cereal beverage. Two years later, he introduced Grape Nuts. Other still-familiar cereals followed after his death: Raisin Bran (1942), Golden Crisp (1949), Alpha-Bits (1958), Honeycomb (1965) and Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles (1971). In 1989, Kraft, Inc. and General Foods Corp. are combined to form Kraft General Foods, the largest food company in the U.S.


Article:

The Early Days Of Breakfast Cereal




The editorial content above may not be reproduced without the written permission of Mr Breakfast.com. Please contact us for reprint requests.