One day Will cooked some wheat as usual and then had to leave. When he returned the wheat hat become stale. He decided to put this wheat through rollers anyway. To his surprise each grain of wheat come out as a flake. When he baked the flakes in the oven to get them dry they became light brown in color. After he tried this a few times he produced wheat flakes without the stale wheat. He asked his brother john to serve the new breakfast food in the dining room of the health center.The patients ate the new breakfast food and loved it. It was 1894 and a new cereal was born