One day will cooked some wheat as usual and then had to leave when he return the wheat had become stale he decided to put this wheat through rollers anyway to his surprise each grain of wheat came 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 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 centet