READING Corn Flakes Wan Kellogg was born in 1860. He had no idea that one day he would Das the way we eat breakfast wil had little compared to brother lohn Kellogg- lohn was the chief doctor at the Battle Creek Health Center in where mostly rich people went eat healthy and recover their health, will worked very hard at his brother's health center. He was the thang and manager a e foods didn't want to do. He also look a for his patients. They worked together, trying to everything for from tried nothing with the they boiled it and then rolled it flat, but seemed to work. One day, Will cooked some wheat, as usual, and then had to leave. When he returned, the wheat had become stale. He decided to put this wheat through rollers anyway. To his surprise, each grain of wheat game out as a flake. When he baked the flakes in the oven to get them 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 center. serve the new breakfast food in the dining room of the health 1894, The patients ate new breakfast food and loved it. It and a new cereal was born. Even after they left the health center, patients ordered bags of the cereal. By 1895. John and Will were producing 100,000 pounds of flakes every year and selling each ten-ounce box for fifteen cents. lohn was not interested in taking care of this new food business and left all the work to his brother, as usual. Will continued to experiment with new foods for the next few years and came out with a new cereal made from corn-he called it corn flakes! One of the patients at the health center was a man named Charles Post. As he walked around the health center, he watched how the cereal was made. When he returned home, he started his own cereal company. By 1900, the Post Cereal Company was making s3 million in sales. About this time, more than twenty other breakfast companies started in Battle Creek-all making cereals. The Kellogg brothers were angry that other people were using their ideas and getting rich. 127 Corn Flakes Chapter