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Shredded wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat formed into pillow-shaped biscuits. It is commonly available in three sizes: original, bite-sized (¾×1 in) and miniature (nearly half the size of the bite-sized pieces).
The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory is a disused factory which formerly produced variants of the shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Welwyn Garden City, in the United Kingdom. It was designed by architect Louis de Soissons to encourage companies to establish factories in the industrial areas of garden cities .
In the early 1890s, at a Nebraska hotel, Perky, suffering from diarrhea, encountered a man similarly afflicted, who was eating boiled wheat with cream. The idea simmered in Perky's mind, and in 1892, he took his idea of a product made of boiled wheat to his friend, William H. Ford, in Watertown, New York — a machinist by trade.
In Canada, production began in 1939 at Lewis Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario. [1] As of 2024, this plant was still in operation. [2]Shreddies were produced under the Nabisco name until the brand in Canada was purchased in 1993 by Post Cereals, [3] [4] whose parent company in 1995 became Kraft General Foods, which sold Post to Ralcorp in 2008 and is now Post Foods Canada Corp., a unit of Post ...
One 1936 grocery store advertisement for the cereal described it as, "ready to eat, made from pure whole wheat . . . Cooked, shredded, and toasted to a delicious golden brown; new in flavor." [4] Bite-sized Shredded Ralston was described in one early promotional article as whole wheat that had been "shredded and baked into crisp-bite-size ...
The Shredded Wheat Company began producing Triscuit in 1903 in Niagara Falls, New York. [2] The name Triscuit may have come from a combination of the words electricity and biscuit [3] or the commonly held belief that "tri" is a reference to the three ingredients used (wheat, oil, and salt), [4] [5] but this is disputed due to conflicting adverts and poor records. [6]
The Nestlé desserts factory closed in 2004, allowing the site to concentrate on wheat-based cereals. [14] Production of Shredded Wheat and Shreddies was moved from a Welwyn Garden City factory in 2007, and in 2014 those were still the main products. [15] The metal chimney was removed in 2011, as it was not required by the cereal-making plant. [16]
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